What Makes a Good Decodable Book? 5 Things to Look For

With so many decodable books on the market, educators should follow these 5 criteria to...

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Making Words: An Update

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

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Shared Reading in Kindergarten

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

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Teach for Transfer

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

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Shared Reading

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

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Assessing Students Remotely

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

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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...

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More About Word Study

Word study is an important but very brief part of a guided reading lesson.  In...

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