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Supporting Your Children’s and Teen’s Home Learning: Combine Reading Aloud With Guided Play to Develop Listening Comprehension Skills
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Retelling a story with household items and conversation facilitates use of listening comprehension skills.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Making and Playing Games to Practice English
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Games like our Word Match reinforce vocabulary instruction in a fun way.
Learning English With Your Children and Teens: Focus on Language Development During Shared Reading
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Keep characteristics like rhyming and other language elements in mind when selecting and reading aloud a book together.
Sisters With a Lot to Give (and Sell) for Dyslexia Support
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Grace, 12, and Sophie, 10, are working hard to fundraise and raise dyslexia awareness.
Incorporating Oral Language Learning Throughout the School Day
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Take three basic steps to implicitly and explicitly teach language to help develop this foundational skill for young students.
Is It the Materials or the Instruction That Make For a Good Reading Program?
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Read why teaching in an explicit, systematic way with differentiation is at the heart of the best performing reading programs.
Gibbs Selected for Leadership Academy
Monday, July 26, 2021
IRRC grad student to receive mentoring, work on project during year-long experience.
Free IRRC Service Helps Iowa Children With Reading Disabilities
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
The Iowa Reading Research Center introduces families to assistive technology that may help their children with reading and writing.
Gibbs Recognized by College of Education for Research Paper
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
IRRC Graduate Student Assistant Anna Gibbs was recognized for her submission to the 2021 Graduate Student Research Paper Award.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Identification of Cause and Effect Relationships in Texts
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
This video demonstration explains the importance of this comprehension skill and how to teach it.