Who Says Knowledge-Building Has to Come in a Boxed Program?
By now, the education world is well aware of how important it is for students to know things about the world. What they bring to their reading and writing in…
Reading Workshop and the Science of Reading: Are They Really Opposites?
Recently, I saw a comment string on Facebook where someone asked reading workshop. One of the first replies was a very matter-of-fact comment that she wouldn’t think of considering it,…
What’s the Difference in the Two Phonics Approaches?
There are, primarily, two approaches to phonics instruction. In simplified terms, they are print to speech and speech to print. Which begs the question…which of these two phonics approaches is…
Just Teaching Students to Read Is Not Enough
Whether ending the school year or starting a new one, an important question should come to mind: is the goal to teach students to read, or is it to teach…
What Literacy Teachers Really Need (It Isn’t More Trends)
As a teenager many moons ago, one of the questions I remember my parents asking me the most was if so-and-so were to jump off of a cliff would you…