Making Words: An Update
Making Words is an engaging word building activity that helps link your students’ knowledge of...
Using Decodable Books to Teach Reading
When it comes to using decodable texts in the classroom, today’s educators are often divided....
When Are Leveled Books Also Decodable Books?
There have been many recent articles of late regarding the push for using decodable texts...
Shared Reading in Kindergarten
Shared reading provides a wonderful opportunity to guide and support students as they read aloud...
All About Shared Reading (+ Free Lesson Plans)
Whether you are working with students remotely or in person, you need to provide a...
Assessing Students Remotely
As school starts, many of you will need to assess students remotely. It is important...
Beginner Steps Lessons Using the Digital Reader
Some of you have asked about how to remotely teach the Literacy Footprints Beginner Steps...
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...
Independent Reading... with Books Students WANT to and CAN Read!
There are many research studies that show a strong correlation between the amount a student...
More About Word Study
Word study is an important but very brief part of a guided reading lesson. In...
What Are the Other Kids Doing? How to Set Up Literacy Stations
One of the biggest things that gets in the way of implementing guided reading is...
Teaching Test-Taking
Fantasy, mystery, biography, poetry, and informational are some of the genres we use during guided...
