Reading & Literacy
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Using Shared Reading to Improve Reading Fluency
Shared Reading is a reading activity that happens when learners join in or share the reading of a book or other content while guided ... -
The Process of Learning To Read
One of the most difficult challenges that a teacher can face is teaching a young student how to read. Not only are there so ... -
Using Informal Reading Level Inventories to Improve Kids’ Reading Ability
Reading experts utilize Informal Reading Inventories (IRI) to help learners develop their reading skills and learn from texts at each grade level and in ... -
Rhyming Ability: Is It Important In Reading?
While more than 5 million students in the U.S. learn English as their first language, rhyming remains one of the last skills that these ... -
Introduction To Phonemic Awareness
Understanding the sounds in a word is an essential step for children before learning to read those words. This process of becoming aware of ... -
Dialect And Reading Difficulties
Learning to read can be seen as an extremely daunting and challenging task. However, this process is made even more difficult by various dialect ... -
Reading Rule #1 – Focus On the Words
Reading plays an integral part in everyone’s life, whether you are 5 or 50. Some find reading easy, but some struggle with it. There ... -
Early Signs That Your Child Has Reading Difficulties
Children’s primary interaction in their earlier years is with their parents. Unsurprisingly, they are the ones that have the most influence on children’s development. ... -
Oral Reading Fluency and Speed: What is the Link?
Old measures of fluency such as informal reading inventories focused more on accuracy. The challenge with accuracy measures is that they tend to overrate ... -
Should Letter Names Be Taught?
Experts believe that teaching letter names will bring more confusion than clarity. For many, the belief is that focusing on sounds instead of the ...