I’ve been meaning to write about Reading Workshop for ages. Its program is one of the most popular in K–12, especially in my neck of the…
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A thoughtful post by Carrie Mattern, reflecting on her experience at the 2019 NCTE conference in Baltimore, is spawning good discussions in social media. Mattern…
A few weeks ago, inspired by a tweet, I published a rallying cry to a group that I’ve been calling Literacy Twitter. A growing number…
So you want to know how kids learn to read – with an eye to understanding what research has taught us over the last 20+…
Dear Superintendents, Cabinet Members, and School Board Members, An important national conversation about how we teach reading has been gaining major momentum over the last…
Friends, let’s talk about poorly-understood research that has the potential to turbocharge your reading outcomes: Students’ background knowledge matters more to their reading comprehension than…