Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...
HORSHAM – Earlier this summer, Hatboro-Horsham School District ran its first ELA Summer Institute for a group of 35 District educators. The four-day course allowed teachers in grades 3-8 to deep dive ...
Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...
K. Dara Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...
At our Title I high school in Los Angeles, CA–where over 90 percent of students face economic hardship–we are uniquely autonomous from any feeder grade schools, which means we have no influence on ...
As Arizona grapples with an ongoing literacy crisis, a new initiative is on the rise. Pathways to Evidence-Based Literacy, a statewide project led by the Arizona Educational Foundation (AEF), is ...
When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.
About 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every day, according to IBM. Scientist David Helfand says that is equal to 5 trillion books, enough to stretch around the equator on a bookshelf ...
The foundation of a child’s education is built long before they ever step into a kindergarten classroom. To solve Utah’s literacy problem, we must empower and educate parents (in all their types) on ...