Category: Teaching Improvement Notices
Providing excellent reading instruction to adolescents is not enough for those who experience regular difficulties in school. Understanding where we go wrong, and how we can fix it, requires listening and being responsive to teens. Teenagers hold a critical piece of information that can help us unlock why some of them grow up to be…
Hear from an experienced reading instructor who discusses the science of teaching readers. Learn how reading is developed in the brain?
Reading is making meaning from print. It is a foundational, yet complex cognitive skill upon which other skills are built. Reading may feel easy for proficient readers, but it is far from simple1. Early success in reading is a powerful predictor of later literacy achievement which, in turn, is strongly linked with performance across a…
Struggling readers are more likely to learn essential reading skills and strategies if the direct or explicit model of instruction is part of the teacher’s repertoire of teaching methods. Directly/explicitly teaching reading means imparting new information to students through meaningful teacher–student interactions and teacher guidance of student learning. In this approach, the teacher clearly leads…
A Youtube video that explains how the brain works when learning to read.
Visit the Literacy Care Website A website with presentations and resources focused on literacy teaching.