Differentiating for the Most Able in a Mathematics Lesson. Mathematics education blog for secondary school teachers, teacher trainers and Heads of Maths.
If the classroom is the training ground for life, it makes sense to use reading strategies that mimic the way we read outside the classroom, right?
UB researcher's findings point to the value of word sounds over visual processing during reading instruction or when diagnosing and treating reading...
California is debating whether to revise or replace the reading instruction test candidates must pass to become credentialed
he Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, s…
This summer some of our teachers attended Literacy Strategy as part of our before school professional development. As a follow-up, we invited a Literacy specialist, Shannon Gaines, to spend a day w…
Pearl Dean Garden, Early Learning Instructional Specialist
Discover how social and emotional learning competencies can be added to classroom lesson plans in a way that feels natural and purposeful.
Readers who are struggling in upper elementary and middle school may benefit from phonics instruction.
The progress of many struggling readers is undermined by slavish adherence to Lexile reading-level scores. Though I haven't observed that a majority of teachers, learning consultants, and school psychologists are subservient to these scores, I’ve observed it far too often to think it’s rare. In contrast, it’s obvious that Lexile scores, flexibly used as tentative guides, can advance decision-making but cannot take the place of a…