Prevention of literacy and numeracy skill gaps in early childhood is a high priority for parents, teachers and educational leaders. To focus on this priority, there are a myriad ways in which we can …

This is the third of four articles in a series about incorporating authentic learning and authentic assessment in both the classroom setting and at home. In our first two articles, we focused on …

As a speech language pathologist, I often get questions surrounding instructional strategies for English Learners whenever I facilitate professional development workshops, so I thought that it might …

Today’s world of children’s literature is a myriad of subjects and genres, capable of supporting any unit or path of study. As Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) has moved more to the …

Ask any primary grades teacher about reading fluency, and you are likely to hear something about WCPM from one-minute oral readings. (That’s words correct per minute, a bit like miles per hour.) …

As educators, we constantly hear how important data collection is but are often not given the tools for what to do with data. We need to change that! In this post, I tackle how data can be used to …

As young kids amaze us all by developing reading fluency (remember this blog?), they typically move toward greater and greater comprehension of what they read. That’s good: reading with …