Teach middle school students to use a story map graphic organizer when reading a literary text.

Correlation and its limitations are explained in easy-to-understand language.

Findings suggest a systematic approach to teaching this prerequisite skill for decoding and writing.

This decoding skill helps students read, understand, and independently spell words.

Researchers examined the common approach of having students read the questions before the text on a comprehension test to see how it impacted student performance compared to reading the questions after the text.

Learn about an instructional cycle that also involves coaching and planning next steps as a team in our Q&A with Cedar Rapids Schools’ administrators.

Essential principles of study design lead to causal results showing effects on student outcomes.

Essential principles of study design lead to generalizable results for a wide reach of students.

Teach students to read and understand a compound word by identifying the two words that make it.

Students learn to write a debatable, focused, and clear claim with this instructional approach.

An instructional sequence shows how to help students integrate new info with their mental representation of the text.

Students using the electronic organizer with online discussion showed a stronger path to increased science learning.

Cedar Rapids schools are creating a shared literacy instructional vision and partnering with the Iowa Reading Research Center.

Learning handwriting and practicing it in the home and at school helps early readers learn to recognize letters.

Consider the objective of the unit and what students already know, and then begin building a diverse set of texts for students to read.