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What strategies and programs do you recommend for teaching phonics and early literacy skills to preschoolers?

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Early Literacy Development, Phonics and Decoding, Phonological and Phonemic Awareness, Preschool and Child Care

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Reading Rockets

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What strategies are most effective in teaching struggling writers?

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Learning Disabilities, Struggling Readers, Writing

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Steve Graham

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Reading Curriculum

We need to do a better job with definitions in our field, and I’d start with making sure that everyone is recognizing the distinctions among curriculum and instruction and assessment.

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What Teachers Need to Know about Sentence Comprehension

3 elementary students writing on flip chart in social studies unit

Article

What Teachers Need to Know About the “New” Nonfiction

Children’s nonfiction picture books is a genre that is exploding in both quality and quantity. Recent nonfiction books reveal an emphasis on the visual, an emphasis on accuracy, and an engaging writing style. Suggestions are included for choosing and using nonfiction picture books in the classroom.

Elementary teacher explaining social studies lesson to group of kids in classroom

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What Teachers Need to Know About the Common Core State Standards

Learn the basics about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS): how they will affect teaching, the benefits and key features of the standards, assessment, and what teachers can do now to prepare for CCSS implementation.

Research Report

What Teachers Need to Know and Do to Teach Letter-Sounds, Phonemic Awareness, Word Reading, and Phonics

2022

multicultural group of teachers engaged in school-based discussion about teaching

Article

What Teachers Need to Know for Informed Reading Instruction

Recent research has provided a clearer picture about reading difficulties and how to prevent them. This position paper of the International Dyslexia Association argues for reform in teacher preparation to reflect these research-based understandings.

Parent with elementary child talking to teacher at school

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What teachers say, what parents hear

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What teachers should know about research

Expert Q&A

What technology is available to help a nine-year-old read?

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Parent Engagement, Special Education, Ed Tech and Digital Media

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Tracy Gray

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What technologies can help my third grade daughter organize her writing?

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Ed Tech and Digital Media, Writing

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Tracy Gray

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

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What text levels are appropriate for independent reading?

Young girl pointing at text as she reads aloud

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What Texts to Use to Teach Fluency?

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What texts do you recommend for our 11-year-old-daughter who struggles with reading?

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Advocacy, Assessment and Evaluation, Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities

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Sally E. Shaywitz

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What is the best order in which to introduce letters and their corresponding sounds?

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Early Literacy Development, Phonics and Decoding, Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

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Reading Rockets

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What’s the best plan for a preschooler with dyslexia entering kindergarten? What should I ask the school to do right from the start?

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Dyslexia, Intervention and Prevention, Learning Disabilities

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Sally E. Shaywitz

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What’s the best way for teachers to help students write supported arguments and explanatory texts?

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Common Core Standards, Content Area Literacy, Writing

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Steve Graham

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What Is the Best Way to Organize a Classroom for Reading Instruction?

Learn why teachers should minimize the amount of small group instruction — and what effective small group instruction looks like.

Elementary student in class thinking pensively about the lesson

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What’s the Difference Between Close Reading and Teaching Complex Text?

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What is the difference between a learning disability and a reading disability?

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Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities

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What is the difference between a person with LD and a slow learner?

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About Reading, Assessment and Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Phonological and Phonemic Awareness, Struggling Readers

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Reading Rockets

Young Latina student smiling in the classroom at her desk

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What Is the Difference Between Social and Academic English?

Social English, or the language of conversation, may develop very quickly, but mastering academic English, the language of school, can take years. Use these tips to lead students toward full language proficiency.

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