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Teaching Tip: What makes a good decodable book

Decodable books have been used for reading instruction for years. They can be very useful...

Teaching Tip: Making Words: An Update

Making Words is an engaging word building activity that helps link your students’ knowledge of...

Teaching Tip: Reading Goals!

I am thrilled with the newest Digital Reader feature: Reading Goals. When we first built...

Teaching Tip: Shared Reading in Kindergarten

Shared reading provides a wonderful opportunity to guide and support students as they read aloud...

Teaching Tip: Guided Writing: A Critical Part of Guided Reading

When we talk about guided reading, we don’t often think about writing being an important...

Teaching Tip: Understanding the Purpose of Level A and B Books

As we get ready to launch a new batch of emergent readers–hopefully, this year in...

Teaching Tip: Learning with Kyliee

I am noticing that we have many Emergent readers spending a long time reading at...

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: Literacy Footprints Can Help You Teach Guided Reading, by Jan Richardson

We’ve all been caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to temporarily...

Teaching Tip: Video Book Introductions

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