Tag: reading
Reading, Writing, and Giving Back
Kristal Bivona gets inspired by voluntary literacy projects
Non-governmental organizations have more opportunities to serve and support education than ever today as pressure increases on schools to look beyond public funding. Here are two nonprofits...
Reading Illustrated Story Books ‘Just Right’
A new study, “Goldilocks Effect? Illustrated Story Format Seems ‘Just Right’ and Animation ‘Too Hot’ for Integration of Functional Brain Networks in Preschool-Age Children,”...
Stamina in Silent Reading
Elfrieda H. Hiebert offers literacy advice
In all likelihood, you are reading these words silently. Silent reading is the mode in which adults typically read. In the primary grades especially, and sometimes even beyond in...
New Literacy Program for Middle School & Up
The National Center for Education Statistics has found that approximately two-thirds of eighth-grade students in the U.S. cannot read proficiently (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cnb.pdf), a figure that has held relatively steady for 25 years. To help schools...
The Eyes Tell All
MIT study shows eye movements reveal linguistic fluency
Tracing the eye movements of someone as they read in a second language may be able to create a more accurate assessment of their fluency that many...
Access to Books Improves Learning
Yet another study has shown that increasing access to books improves student outcomes
“Reaching Families Where They Are: Examining an Innovative Book Distribution Program,” published in Urban Education, examines a community-wide effort to promote greater...
Newspapers, Childhood Reading Key to Strong Vocabulary
Researchers at London’s Institute of Education have found that children who are avid readers reap the rewards well into adulthood. The participants of the...
Good Readers Read More
A new study of more than 11,000 7-year-old twins...
Re-Gifted Reading
Stephen Krashen finds an easy way to help close the achievement gap in literacy and clean up clutter at the same time
There is overwhelming evidence that those who live in poverty have little access...
Software Focus
In addition to the humble book, publishers have launched an array of reading programs
designed to help readers of all types acquire the skills they need
Here’s a selection of the most innovative
Academy of READING
The Academy...