Benefits of Mastering Instructional Text
Facilitating mastery of text makes reading instruction more effective Most reading curricula organize lessons in one-week blocks to make planning easy for teachers. What they seldom do is communicate the benefits of helping students master the text before moving on. This can slow growth (something every school is trying to accelerate) in nearly every reading component;…
April is Poetry Month!
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is a powerful tool that is often underutilized. Poetry can work into every component of reading, and generally, kids love it!
Get Back to Normal… OR Start Thinking Bigger?
What does ‘back to normal’ mean for literacy? Does it mean back to the status quo of more than 60% of all 4th graders and 80% of all minorities reading below grade level?
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Benefits of Mastering Instructional Text
Facilitating mastery of text makes reading instruction more effective Most reading curricula organize lessons in one-week blocks to make planning easy for teachers. What they seldom do is communicate the…
April is Poetry Month!
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is a powerful tool that is often underutilized. Poetry can work into every component of reading, and generally, kids love it!
Get Back to Normal… OR Start Thinking Bigger?
What does ‘back to normal’ mean for literacy? Does it mean back to the status quo of more than 60% of all 4th graders and 80% of all minorities reading below grade level?
Continue Reading Get Back to Normal… OR Start Thinking Bigger?
Repeated Reading Just Got Fun
Lyrics2Learn is launching a video-based, multi-sensory fluency feature that tracks cold and hot reads through repeated reading!
L2L’s New Phonemic Awareness Program Debuts in North Carolina
L2LPA uses a music-based, multi-sensory methodology to help students develop phoneme-grapheme correspondence familiarity.
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Reading Fluency, an Essential Reading Component Often Neglected
Fluent readers are able to read text smoothly, accurately, and with expression. Reading fluency isn’t fast, rapid reading– a common misconception.
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