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.
Pre-K and Younger
Posted on: January 25, 2022
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.
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.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Engaging Preschool and Kindergarten-Aged children in Literacy-Focused Guided Play
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Posted on: May 19, 2020
Caregivers can implement three key elements to help grow literacy and pre-literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Educational Video Programming and Literacy Learning
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Posted on: April 21, 2020
Three tips to keep in mind while watching TV as a home learning activity.
Research Brief: Decontextualized Alphabetic Knowledge Instruction Produces Positive Results
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Posted on: January 28, 2020
Findings suggest a systematic approach to teaching this prerequisite skill for decoding and writing.
Making and Evaluating Predictions
This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.
The Continued Importance of Handwriting Instruction
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Posted on: May 21, 2019
Learning handwriting and practicing it in the home and at school helps early readers learn to recognize letters.
Caregiver Involvement When Reading Books to Children
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Posted on: April 23, 2019
Children’s literacy development benefits when they discuss four key elements of stories read by their caregivers.
IDEA
The IDEA strategy uses four key components drawn from research that caregivers can easily implement to teach and practice literacy skills when reading to children at home.