Timothy Shanahan

Shanahan on Literacy

Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. Dr. Shanahan is an internationally recognized professor of urban education and reading researcher who has extensive experience with children in inner-city schools and children with special needs. All posts are reprinted with permission from Shanahan on Literacy (opens in a new window).

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Do Learning Centers and Seatwork Improve Reading Achievement?

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Do Learning Centers and Seatwork Improve Reading Achievement?

Is Comprehension Better with Digital Text?

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Is Comprehension Better with Digital Text?

Elementary student in class thinking pensively about the lesson

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What do you think of Guided Reading for secondary school?

Is It Really Sensible to Teach Students to Read Like Historians and Scientists?

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Is It Really Sensible to Teach Students to Read Like Historians and Scientists?

preschooler with picture book

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Is There Really a 30 Million Word Gap?

Should We Teach with Decodable Text?

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Should We Teach with Decodable Text?

First grader at board reading 3-letter words for teacher

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What Should Morphology Instruction Look Like?

boy and girl wearing knit crowns looking at reading picture books with mother

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Books on Buses and Book in a Bag: Book Access and Reading

Young girl in striped short reading a book next to a cat

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Synthetic Phonics or Systematic Phonics? What Does Research Really Say?

PreK boy playing with magnetic letters

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Should We Teach Letter Names?

Elementary boy in yellow plaid shirt taking a test

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Implementing Higher Literacy Standards or Putting on a Show?

elementary teacher in lively conversation with students who have hands raised

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Synthetic Phonics or Systematic Phonics? What Does Research Really Say?

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