Tag: reading

Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall III

Premise: Nationally, there is a higher demand for biliteracy....

Ensuring Equity in Reading Instruction

Early one summer, my parents moved our family into a 900-square-foot house in the central part of town that would become home for my...

To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration

My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with dyslexia....

California Bill Would Mandate Science of Reading

A newly introduced California Assembly bill would require the state’s teachers to be trained and reading to be taught only according to the principles...

A Bilingual Path to Literacy Success

I have been the principal at Georgia Brown...

Dyslexia Legislation Only Gets Us So Far

In October, education communities across the country recognized Dyslexia Awareness Month. The National Institute of Health and Yale University found approximately one in five...

Background Knowledge and Where to Get It

Stephen Krashen argues that those who read more know more Wexler (2023) has pointed out that a reader’s background knowledge is a significant predictor...

I Teach Content in Secondary Schools. Do I Need to Teach...

Margarita Calderón, Leticia M. Trower, and Lisa Tartaglia...

Listen to the Bilingual Science!

Two years ago, we (Dual Language Education of...

Antisocial Language Teaching

Multilingual Matters recently published Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness, by Language Magazine contributor JPB Gerald. The centering of Whiteness...
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