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Teaching Tip: Shared Reading in Kindergarten

Shared reading provides a wonderful opportunity to guide and support students as they read aloud...

Teaching Tip: Understanding the Purpose of Level A and B Books

As we get ready to launch a new batch of emergent readers–hopefully, this year in...

Teaching Tip: Accelerate, Not Remediate

I eavesdropped on my granddaughter Mae’s remote first grade class this morning and felt awed...

Teaching Tip: Learning with Kyliee

I am noticing that we have many Emergent readers spending a long time reading at...

Teaching Tip: Using the Book Bag to Increase Phrased and Fluent Reading

Rereading books plays an important role in helping students consolidate new learning and build fluency....

Teaching Tip: Shared Reading

Shared Reading: A Powerful Literacy Experience, In-Person or Remote By Jan Richardson, Karen Cangemi, and...

Teaching Tip: Assessing Students Remotely

As school starts, many of you will need to assess students remotely. It is important...

Teaching Tip: Literacy Footprints Can Help You Teach Guided Reading, by Jan Richardson

We’ve all been caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to temporarily...

Teaching Tip: Video Book Introductions

As we all know, in a guided reading lesson, the book introduction plays a critical...

Teaching Tip: Teaching Guided Reading Remotely

The concept of how to teach children to read remotely was not even on my...