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Teaching Tip: Accelerate, Not Remediate

I eavesdropped on my granddaughter Mae’s remote first grade class this morning and felt awed...

Teaching Tip: Using the Book Bag to Increase Phrased and Fluent Reading

Rereading books plays an important role in helping students consolidate new learning and build fluency....

Teaching Tip: Teach for Transfer

One of the positive, yet unexpected, outcomes of COVID-19 has been the opportunity for me...

Teaching Tip: Shared Reading

Shared Reading: A Powerful Literacy Experience, In-Person or Remote By Jan Richardson, Karen Cangemi, and...

Teaching Tip: Assessing Students Remotely

As school starts, many of you will need to assess students remotely. It is important...

Teaching Tip: Preparing for the Unknown

How can we prepare for the many scenarios our schools will face this coming year?...

Teaching Tip: Beginner Steps Lessons Using the Digital Reader

Some of you have asked about how to remotely teach the Literacy Footprints Beginner Steps...

Teaching Tip: Video Book Introductions

As we all know, in a guided reading lesson, the book introduction plays a critical...

Teaching Tips & Tools for Remote Word Work

In this fabulous video tip from Twyla Morton you'll get a few quick and easy tips...

Teaching Tip: Digital Education: Software Solutions

If someone had said six weeks ago that most teachers in the United States would...

Teaching Tip: Teaching Guided Reading Remotely

The concept of how to teach children to read remotely was not even on my...