Literacy

4 Assessments You Should Be Using to Improve Literacy Outcomes

September 9, 2024| Posted in Literacy, Best Practices| 253

Professional educators use sufficient, appropriate information derived from on-going assessments to plan and deliver instruction and intervention for each student. Learn from Dr. Jan Hasbrouck about the 4 categories of academic assessments, each of which is designed to answer simple but important questions.

A Superpower Boost: Multilingual Learners and the Fluency Development Lesson

September 4, 2024| Posted in Literacy, Best Practices| 206

Fluency is a fuel that helps multilingual learners (MLLs) leverage their superpower. Discover how instruction in reading fluency facilitates the development of essential English oral language skills like phrasing, intonation, and vocabulary among MLLs. Mastering these skills equips MLLs to comprehend English more proficiently, especially when they achieve fluency in decoding.

What Really Gets Kids Reading?

December 3, 2020| Posted in On the Blog| 4043

Research shows that when a self-selected text is above a student’s independent reading level, that student will struggle productively to understand it.