Scope and Sequence: What Is It, and How Do Educators Use It to Guide Instruction?
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Posted on: March 21, 2023
Learn how to gain an understanding of whether a literacy program provides systematic and thorough instruction for all students.
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Posted on: March 21, 2023
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Practice Paraphrasing With a New Game
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Posted on: February 22, 2022
English learners can have fun with their families and learn a communication strategy by making and playing a card game.
Identifying Phonological Working Memory Struggles and Intervening With Instruction
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Posted on: January 25, 2022
Proficiency with phonological working memory is a part of developing other literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teen’s Home Learning: Combine Reading Aloud With Guided Play to Develop Listening Comprehension Skills
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Posted on: December 14, 2021
Retelling a story with household items and conversation facilitates use of listening comprehension skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Making and Playing Games to Practice English
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Posted on: November 30, 2021
Games like our Word Match reinforce vocabulary instruction in a fun way.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Focus on Language Development During Shared Reading
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Posted on: October 26, 2021
Keep characteristics like rhyming and other language elements in mind when selecting and reading aloud a book together.
Incorporating Oral Language Learning Throughout the School Day
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Posted on: September 28, 2021
Take three basic steps to implicitly and explicitly teach language to help develop this foundational skill for young students.
Is It the Materials or the Instruction That Make For a Good Reading Program?
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Posted on: August 31, 2021
Read why teaching in an explicit, systematic way with differentiation is at the heart of the best performing reading programs.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts
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Posted on: April 27, 2021
This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Using Junk Mail to Practice English
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Posted on: March 30, 2021
Engage the family with activities that practice English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and more.
Technically Speaking: What is Causal Inference and Why is it Important?
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Posted on: February 23, 2021
In experimental studies, reading researchers try to establish a connection between a program or type of instruction and students’ reading performance by controlling for other things that might explain the outcomes.