More teachers are being encouraged to use evidence-based practices aligned to this research, and and in some cases, are required to use or discard certain teaching approaches. Teachers continue to ...

The two volumes of this book work together to explain and show teachers how to teach ... where she has taught pre- and in-service teachers for 20 years. Her research and teaching interests are in ...

Balanced literacy has been “the predominant way of teaching reading and writing,” said Joanna Cohen ... program and reading curriculum work together, and how both connect to intervention ...

Rather, writing is a process closely tied to thinking. In graduate school, I spent months trying to fit pieces of my dissertation together in my mind and eventually found I could solve the puzzle ...

Topics include how to teach reading, how to teach grammar, using social media, using cameras and much, much more.

The brains of kids who are teaching peers go into overdrive—boosting retention and understanding. Here’s how to leverage this effect in your classroom.

A new law aimed at improving literacy in Kansas is already seeing some payoff in the form of rising standardized test scores.

Draws on the findings of a recent research project, Lifelong Literacy (Twist & McDowall, 2010). Argues that developing students who are readers requires teachers who not only have the content ...

Reading text means more than just saying all the words out loud. It is important that you are also able to understand what is being said. A good way to check if you've understood some text ...

On the white board behind Jasmine Dalton was a list of words that would show up often in the book of animal constellations ...