6 Strategies for Teaching Multisyllabic Word Reading
Curious about the best way to teach students to read multisyllabic words? Check out this explainer from two researchers who study multisyllabic word reading.
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REWARDS Training Videos
REWARDS is a research-validated, specialized reading intervention program designed for students in junior, intermediate and senior grades. There are three YouTube videos for different versions of the program: REWARDS Intermediate, REWARDS Secondary, and REWARDS Social Studies.
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Teaching Summary Writing to Support Comprehension
Watching this webinar from PaTTAN, you will learn why summarizing has been identified through research as highly effective for developing comprehension and writing. It defines a quality summary and how it differs from retelling or paraphrasing. Practical suggestions for explicitly teaching summary writing based on text and non-text sources will be shared, including scaffolds. The…
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Teacher’s Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
Sentence combining is an evidence-based practice that helps students improve both their writing skills and reading comprehension. In this valuable book, the author outlines the importance of the sentence and what sentence combining actually is, as well as how to teach and assess it. Also included: multiple examples at different levels that teachers from Grades…
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Text Complexity: Stretching Readers with Texts and Tasks – Second Edition
When it comes to choosing texts for the classroom, educators have a lot of questions. Should we be looking at levels, lexiles or other readability criteria? Do we limit kids to “just-right” books? How can we scaffold instruction to help struggling readers access age- and grade-appropriate material? This book has answers! The authors cover quantitative…
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Using Research and Reason in Education
This paper delves into informing how teachers can use scientifically based research to make curricular instructional decisions The article showcases how as professionals, teachers can become more effective and powerful by developing their skills to recognize scientifically based practice. Even in scenarios when the evidence is not available, educators will be informed on how to…
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Coaching for Systems and Teacher Change
This book is “a comprehensive guide to what effective coaching looks like across the pre-K to 12 grade span and how to conduct powerful coaching cycles with teachers and teams”. It is research-driven, full of citations to support the coaching model (using alliance strategies, observing, modeling, providing performance feedback) and recommended practices. The section on…
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La morphologie
Cette webinaire en deux parties sur la morphologie explore les principes fondamentaux de la morphologie. La connaissance de la morphologie est importante pour soutenir la compréhension de la lecture, le vocabulaire, l’orthographe et l’écriture des élèves.a deux types de morphologie: flexionnelle et dérivationnelle. Les vidéos expliquent comment décortiquer les mots afin de les comprendre, et…
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Planning Effective Writing Assessments
This blog post by Joan Sedita of Keys to Literacy highlights the research behind creating specific product goals in writing, emphasizing that providing students with specific guidance on the task, audience, and purpose. A WAG template (Writing Assignment Guide) is provided, as well as completed samples to highlight how it can be used in instruction.
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Repeated Reading Demonstration
See how repeated reading, an evidence-based approach to building fluency, can be implemented in the classroom with this brief video from the Institute of Education Sciences.
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Morphological Awareness: One Piece of the Literacy Pie
Morphological awareness is a skill that helps students read and spell. Teaching English morphemes, and building students’ awareness of morphemes in oral and written language, is key to supporting vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and writing.
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Apprendre au cerveau à lire
Apprendre au cerveau à lire: stratégies pour améliorer le décodage, la fluidité et la compréhension de lecture. Les enfants n’apprennent pas spontanément à lire ; il faut le leur enseigner. Cet article propose quelques stratégies pour améliorer l’identification des mots, le décodage, la fluidité et la compétence en lecture pour améliorer la compréhension.
