My little Ele, from the time she was mobile (she was walking by ten months) never wanted to sit still long enough to read a book. She...

This post is simply a list of places that offer opportunities for young readers to practice their sight words in a fun way and see the words

I read Elizabeth Bartholet’s attack of homeschooling on Harvard Magazines website, a day after I began writing a four-part blog series...

My job as a teacher who specializes in literacy is to provide learning opportunities that inspire a reader to enjoy the process of thinking

It is important to know words by sight because readers are able to spend less time on automatic word recognition and more time on understand

Sight words are the words that a reader should identify by sight. High-Frequency words are the words that appear most often in literature.

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I was speaking to one of my dearest teacher friends forced home due to the Coronavirus scare that we are currently facing as a world. She...

During the month of February, we read about President Lincoln. It was his birthday month and Presidents Day month, so I pulled out our...

Think about how you learn a new word and apply those same principles to your instruction. That is one way I think about instruction, the...

I created a video about this topic on IGTV as well (you can watch it by clicking here) and I basically took said there and wrote it here....

Readers need a toolbox full of tools for them to use to enable them to understand whatever they read (assigned or not) to the best of...

An important aspect to teach readers is how to self-monitor their misunderstandings. Good readers have a few fix-it strategies in their...