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Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Weekly Writing Prompts for Children
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Have your children practice their writing skills at home with our writing prompts in English and Spanish!
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Selecting Texts for Standards-Aligned Practice
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Three areas to consider when picking a text and a listing of websites with free texts to read.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Improving Comprehension Through Story Mapping
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Teach middle school students to use a story map graphic organizer when reading a literary text.
Technically Speaking: Understanding and Quantifying the Correlation of Two Reading Measures
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Correlation and its limitations are explained in easy-to-understand language.
Research Brief: Decontextualized Alphabetic Knowledge Instruction Produces Positive Results
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Findings suggest a systematic approach to teaching this prerequisite skill for decoding and writing.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Consonant Digraphs
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
This decoding skill helps students read, understand, and independently spell words.
Research Brief: Does It Matter When Students Read the Items on a Comprehension Assessment?
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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.
Using a Data-Driven Instructional Cycle to Improve Core Literacy Instruction in Middle School
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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.
Technically Speaking: Why We Use Random Assignment in Reading Research
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Essential principles of study design lead to causal results showing effects on student outcomes.
Technically Speaking: Why We Use Random Sampling in Reading Research
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Essential principles of study design lead to generalizable results for a wide reach of students.
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