I’ve shared many posts on reading instruction over the past 12 years. Today, four teachers share their favorite reading lessons. Two of today’s contributors, along with another veteran teacher, talked ...

Guided reading in Kindergarten involves tailored small group reading teaching. It certainly isn’t the entire group. The small groups are formed according to the reading abilities of the students. It ...

This online resources helps middle school students improve their literacy. The site provides games and 120 hours of supplemental resources. Teachers can access free digital lesson library online to ...

This is lesson 1 of a series of Guided reading lessons based on the Romans on the Rampage by Jeremy Strong. The first lesson is based on making predictions about the part covered front cover of the ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

The pleasures of reading and books have been swapped for phonics and grammar. It’s time for change Too much of what is valuable about studying English was lost in the educational reforms of the past ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...