Cross the Bridge of FluencyPosted on May 06, 2019Best-practice fluency instruction goes beyond improving reader expression. It includes skills that form the essential bridge between decoding and comprehension.
Balance On-Paper and On-Screen ExperiencesPosted on April 08, 2019As access to technology continually increases, some teachers and administrators question if students should only read and always write digitally.
Require Students to Listen During Conversations with Talk Moves Posted on March 25, 2019Every student is not always engaged in classroom discussions. When one student has the floor, the others check out and tune out. To change this dynamic, provide students with...
Helping Students Identify the Main Idea of Any TextPosted on March 03, 2011When teaching students about main idea, scaffold your instruction. Students need to first learn how to identify the concrete and literal before they can determine the inferential....
Teach Readers to Discern Text StructurePosted on March 11, 2014Authors organize their information intentionally. They present their ideas in an organized pattern. This is called text structure. Understanding text structure empowers readers....
Teach Constructed-Response Writing ExplicitlyPosted on August 27, 2013All the work you do to teach your students to read independently and comprehend proficiently is ultimately assessed in the form of a constructed reading response. Plan time...
