Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

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Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...