I recently read an article on how important it is for teachers to read and write alongside our students. We work to make both processes seem natural and something they will do for the rest of their lives and not just inside of a classroom. I am always thinking aloud while I read with my [...]
Here is a great website: http://ht.ly/9A5ww Currently you will find a study on this website that now gives us evidence for something most of us already knew anyway. Playing with your young children will pay off in future years. This study focused on toddlers and the same set of children later during their 5th grade school [...]
Recently I read that the National Association for the Education of Young Children presented a report that two thirds of kindergarten teachers say that students are coming to school without the basics of knowing letters among other concepts. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1bdZC9/www.good.is/post/kindergarten-teachers-say-students-are-behind-on-day-one/ Before I had kids I taught third and fourth grade. I left teaching for a few [...]
Recently someone shared an article regarding a study from The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that rigorously evaluates government-funded social services and education programs. It found that annual book fairs providing summer reading materials to students in high-poverty elementary schools gave students a significant gain in reading levels over a three year [...]
Well, hopefully you hear just one and it is while you are reading. While we read as adults, we hear ourselves reading aloud, inside of our heads. This is something I never really thought about or talked about before it came up in a graduate class last year. It is important to let young readers know that they should hear [...]
