Tag: reading
Reading Is the Answer
COVID-19 Impacts Children’s Literacy For the past year and a half, instead of heading to the school bus stop and socializing before classes, students...
California Commits to Literacy Target and Bets on Biliteracy
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has announced an initiative to ensure that not only will every student learn to read by...
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction Are NOT the Way We Learn...
An appropriate way to honor Kenneth Goodman is to describe a presentation I gave recently as a guest lecturer in a class at the...
Using Evidence to Overcome Adversity
We are currently in the midst of an education crisis. Given the magnitude of the issues we’ve faced over the last year, it would...
Predicting Reading Ability Among Ten-Year Olds
This is a report on the most recent of three similar studies. We present the results all three here in order to highlight the...
Transforming Reading Instruction
1. Millions of people, including me, learned to read with the help of Reading Mastery. Why change such a successful product? Although Reading Mastery...
The Science of Reading in Dual Language
“Literacy has two beginnings: one, in the world, the...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper,...
Risk-taking
Rumi in the Language Classroom Series Vol 3
See Vol 1 of the series here.
See Vol 2 of the series here.
One of the poems...
