What’s the best way to teach reading?
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? Why are so many educators ignoring settled research and brain science and doing their own thing instead? In “H...
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We must teach reading deliberately
By high school, most teachers don’t teach students how to read. There’s an assumption that students either know how or they don’t. If they do...
A thoughtful critique of David Coleman
Several posts ago, I encouraged English teachers to follow David Coleman, the architect of the Common Core State Standards, because of his power to change the ...
NewsHour report on teaching reading
Learning Matters’ John Merrow reported last night on the PBS NewsHour about reading instruction and the trend toward teaching less fiction. It’s 10...