Tag: literacy
Paul Krugman and the Power of Science Fiction
“My mind is so free and unburdened that I am fixing to clean up my desk.”Flannery O’ConnerQuoted by Susan Ohanian, Books Day by Day,...
Declaring Literacy as a Fundamental and Global Civil Right
For decades, educators and parents have been fighting illiteracy. Research indicates that 95% of children can learn how to read with evidence-based instruction. However,...
Cuéntame: Meg Medina named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Award-winning Cuban-American author Meg Medina has today been announced as the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Notable for her Merci Suárez...
Can Teaching English Like Spanish Close the Achievement Gap?
If you have even a passing knowledge of Spanish, you know the ns in montaña are different. You can see it. But English isn’t...
The Role of Early Oral Language in Literacy Development
Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has...
Multiliteracies and Multilingual Learners
Equipped with Miami Linguistic Readers, Camino de la Escuela, and my own ingenuity, my young multilingual learners and I dived into what we believed...
Celebrate Banned Books Week by Exercising Your Right to Read
Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read and draws attention to the harms of censorship.
Banned Books Week...
TOEFL Post Pandemic
Just as the rest of the education industry has learned, adapted, and pivoted over the last two and a half years, so too has...
Using Comics to Teach
Over the past two centuries, as the world has benefited from globalization, the US has evolved as a monolingual country. I...
