Archive
Tag: reading instruction
Reading Comprehension Strategies
The International Literacy Association (ILA) was kind enough to post my article, "Should We Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies," so I thought I would share on my…
Orton-Gillingham Review
Recently I've been getting a number of inquiries regarding the Orton-Gillingham Approach, so I thought I'd offer my thoughts and cite relevant research studies regarding this…
Summer School Reading Intervention
More and more schools are seeing the value of summer school as an option for intensive reading intervention. Whether students are assigned to the program and…
Flexible Phonics Instruction
There is no doubt that explicit, systematic phonics instruction has its place in reading instruction with greater instructional continuity and success than with hodge-podge synthetic, analytic,…
Reading Fluency ILA Position
Reading specialists and response to intervention teachers will be pleasantly surprised that a whole new group of position papers published on International Literacy Association website upholds…
Should We Teach Reading Strategies?
With beginning and struggling readers, spend more time on the reading strategies, such as word identification, that are truly skill-builders and worthy of ample instructional time and…
Read 180 Foundational Reading Assessment
This article details and provides criticism of the READ 180 screening and placement assessment: Foundational Reading Assessment.
Don’t Teach to Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
Most teachers believe in some form of learning styles or multiple intelligences theories. The notion that each child learns differently, so we should adjust instruction accordingly…