A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...
Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...
A Maine Educator Didn’t Have a Curriculum to Teach a Foundational Reading Skill. So She Created One In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug ...
Reading can be both a joy and a challenge, especially when you’re trying to improve fluency or tackle a new language. For students, it’s not just about decoding words—it’s about building confidence, ...
In echo reading, first read passage first aloud and then have you child echo or copy you. In echo reading, you first read a passage aloud and then have the child/students echo (or copy) you by ...
Last month we wrote about four things we really do know about learning to read, based on a comprehensive and balanced review article by Castles, Rastle, and Nation published earlier this year. Castles ...
In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...
In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...