Reading and Literacy

When students have disabilities or other support needs, how can their teachers best facilitate reading skills? Here are some helpful, low-cost ideas for literacy supports and adaptations, from the book Effective…

Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from Smartt & Glaser’s Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction, Second Edition. Comprehension is the goal of reading. Reading comprehension, the act of deriving meaning from…

*Today’s guest post is by Joan Sedita, author of the bestselling guidebook The Writing Rope. Over the past two decades, the literature and discourse related to literacy instruction has focused on reading,…

Good readers need broad and deep vocabulary knowledge—it’s the key to unlocking the meanings within the wide range of academic texts students will need to master. With some planning, teachers…

*Today’s guest post is by Nancy Hennessy & Julia Salamone, authors of The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book. Sentences have been described as the “worker bees” that eventually add up…

*Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “Basic Phonics” by Carol Tolman, Martha C. Hougen, and Susan M. Smartt, in Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction & Assessment, Pre-K–6, Second Edition, edited by…

*Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “Reading Fluency Among English Learners” by Coleen D. Carlson, in Literacy Foundations for English Learners, edited by Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, CDT,…

*Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “Alphabet Knowledge” by Kay A. Allen and Graham F. Neuhaus, in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith…

Reading fluency improves with practice—but enticing struggling readers to read can present a real challenge for teachers. Because reading is not a task that struggling students usually choose to do,…

*Today’s post has been excerpted and adapted from the third edition of Speech to Print by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D. Foundational skills for word recognition must be the first concern for novice…