Tag: literacy
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...
House Passes Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act
This week, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that authorizes the Biliteracy Education and Seal Teaching...
Unifying Language Acquisition with Literacy Instruction for Language-Minority Students
Lexia Learning, a company specializing in structured literacy, recently convened a roundtable on a subject that has been...
A Road to Reading
We have learned the past 20 years, through cognitive science research, that over 90% of students can learn to read at grade level by...
Motivate Readers Now!
No one disputes the benefits of extensive reading (ER) for students of English. There is a substantial body of evidence supporting using graded readers...
Queering English Language Classrooms
(June 2022) Ethan Trinh invites us to think and do differently
Literacy in Spanish and English
Building early literacy skills is imperative for all...
