Literacy

10 Effective Ways to Help English Learners Excel with Grade-Level Content

February 14, 2025| Posted in Literacy, Best Practices| 1086

Discover 10 effective strategies to help English Learners succeed with grade-level content. Learn how to use primary language resources, visual supports, and strategic grouping to bridge language and content learning, creating an inclusive classroom where ELs thrive.

4 Assessments You Should Be Using to Improve Literacy Outcomes

September 9, 2024| Posted in Literacy, Best Practices| 3831

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| 1872

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| 4634

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