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Addressing Unconscious Bias with Active Listening
“Equity” has always been more than just a trending buzzword. It’s an ideal to aim for, and educators and district leaders often know the “what” but not necessarily the “how.” A...
Teaching High Frequency Words: The Science of Reading’s Breakthrough Instructional Practice
There have been major breakthroughs in instructional practice that we’ve seen as the science of reading movement builds, but one that I hear educators get most passionate about...
Impacting Reading Proficiency
The word impact has various meanings, but the one best fitting for why we, as educators, do what we do is to powerfully affect or influence someone or something. As educators, we...
Enhancing Foundational Reading Skills Through Small Group Centers
The research is clear: students need systematic, explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction that is sequenced from simple to complex. As a Senior Facilitator, my role...
The Five Must-Know Phonetic Skills
When children are young, they often rely solely on phonetics to read and spell. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. When novice writers spell phonetically, they “sound out”...
Why and How to Use Nonsense Words When Teaching Reading
By the time most of us first encountered Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, we were fluent readers. However, I am sure...
8 Classroom Accommodations for Dyslexia (That Benefit ALL Students)
Dyslexia is a language-based learning difference that manifests in a cluster of symptoms. Students with dyslexia have challenges with reading, spelling, writing, and pronouncing...
14 Activities That Increase Student Engagement During Reading Instruction
Research shows that students whose teachers spend too much time talking are less likely to be engaged during classroom instruction. Luckily, reading instruction can be so much...
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