This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

If the main goal of a language course is for learners to learn to use the target language more efficiently, fluently and correctly in authentic language use situations, then current scientific ...

Delgado is the director of Texas initiatives for the English Learners Success Forum. With over 30 years of experience in ...

and received a flurry of responses from preschool and day-care providers and educators. , project director for a federally-funded Early Reading First grant in Kalamazoo. Her program is working with 12 ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...