Reading

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Better Than a Video Game

Current practice favors choice and levels. But when students all read the same book together, the satisfaction can be surprising.

Student Learning Recovering from Pandemic Losses, Ohio Data Show

For some subgroups—including English learners and students with disabilities—achievement has largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

Lucy Calkins Adjusts, and the Press Takes Notice

New York Times scrutinizes Columbia Teachers College reading and writing guru
Book cover of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"

Assign High School Students the Entire Original Book, Not Dumbed-Down Excerpts

Reading aloud will improve fluency, build adolescent literacy
Summer reading camps, like the one shown here at Moss Hill Elementary School in Kinston, North Carolina, can mitigate learning loss.

Holding Back 3rd Graders Who Can’t Read Is Only Part of the Answer

The purpose of a promotion policy is for students to be ready, not retained
A first grader picks out a book he would like to check out at the Post Road Elementary School Library, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in White Plains, N.Y.

Give a child a book, or teach her to read?

Decisions about using federal funding are best made at school level.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the state's K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh.

Can Teaching Be Improved by Law?

At least twenty states have passed or are considering measures related to the science of reading.
Two canoes in a race

Yes, Learning Standards Are Arbitrary. Yes, Learning Loss Is Real.

Children need to know how to read, and fewer of them are currently reading as well as they otherwise would be. That demands our attention, not our platitudes.
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Parental Pressure Mounts for More Phonics, Less Guessing in Teaching Reading

Lucy Calkins concedes instructional materials need an update.

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