If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...

Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise. In this lesson, Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies ...

Work on identifying sight words. Count, read and write numbers to 20. OBJECTIVE: In this lesson, students listen to sounds in words and work on identifying sight words with Mrs. Forth. Mrs. Williams ...

An innovative study conducted by MaryAnn Demchak, Ph.D., BCBA-D, professor of special education, in the College of Education & Human Development and Chevonne Sutter, Ph.D., BCBA-D, research assistant ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

English doesn't make a lot of sense when you really think about it. Parents don't necessarily make the best teachers-- at least to their own children. Tiffany Jenkins -- the woman behind the popular ...

Katina Zammit is affiliated with the Australian Literacy Educators Association. When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the ...

Being able to recognise the extra 50 most-used words, as recommended by the literacy strategy for the first two years of schooling, meant children gained an understanding of about 2% more of the texts ...

Matthew Peterson is an extremely smart person who as a child struggled with dyslexia and the way he was taught in the traditional school system—a system that focuses on words and numbers. He overcame ...

Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson—but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: “Are you happy, are ...