Helping children learn to read has changed me
Peak Johnson writes that he never wanted to teach children — until he spent time tutoring the young students at Frankford's ...
Debate rages on over how to teach kids to read
"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...
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Should Kids Learn Cursive Writing? And Teaching How To Write in Cursive
Kids will need to know how to write in cursive ... Shawnda D. Experts recommend teaching lowercase letters first, and ...
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Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works
The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...
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Spelling out why the 'science of reading' movement is winning the Reading Wars
How we teach children to read has been a contentious ... or the relationship between letters and the sounds of spoken language," the outlet added. Studies show that many students need "explicit ...
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To boost kids’ reading, Minnesota schools start to shift the way they teach
Hins said. ”I went home, and I started researching how to teach kids to read.” Kindergarten teacher Holly Hins shows a letter to her students during class at Middleton Elementary. What Hins ...