Communication & Language

Today’s classrooms include increasing numbers of students who are learning English in addition to one or more other languages. Teachers should be aware of the needs of their English learners…

Today’s post was adapted from “Teaching Spelling” by Suzanne Carreker, a chapter in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith R. Birsh, Ed.D., CALT-QI, & Suzanne…

TILLS is the assessment that thousands of SLPs, educators, and reading specialists rely on to test students’ oral and written language skills and identify language and literacy disorders. Whether you’re already a…

Multilingual learners need teachers and schools that support their educational equity, academic success, and positive social-emotional development. In today’s post, explore five important new books that prepare educators to promote…

What is a translanguaging classroom? Kate Seltzer, Susana Ibarra Johnson, and Ofelia García, authors of The Translanguaging Classroom, Second Edition, define it as: A space built collaboratively by the teacher and…

Today’s post is adapted from Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners, by Shelley Fairbairn & Stephaney Jones-Vo. Teach English language learners? Don’t underestimate the importance of becoming familiar…

If you’re a user of the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS®), you may have wondered why TILLS doesn’t include age and grade equivalencies for interpreting scores. Today we’ve…

*Today’s guest post is by Karen Nemeth, author of Young Dual Language Learners. There are many ways for teachers to learn about research and practice that can help them teach…

If you’re an SLP, special educator, or reading specialist, you might already use the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™)—or you might just be curious about this groundbreaking test…