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The boy in the hallway can't read your worksheet. Now what? He's been in the hallway again. The principal has had the call with mom three times this month. The counselor has met with...
Fast isn't the goal. Accurate, expressive, and meaningful is Every reading benchmark report has a line for fluency, usually expressed as 'words correct per minute.' Every coaching...
Small language shifts. Massive learning shifts Reading instruction lives or dies in the language teachers use minute by minute. A child trying to decode a word is listening for...
Your middle school problem started in second grade. Here's the math Every middle school leader has lived this moment: a student walks into 6th grade reading two sometimes four years...
Effort isn't the problem. Alignment is. Walk into almost any school in America right now and you'll see exhausted teachers. They're differentiating, intervening, looping in families,...
What Schools Must Understand About Why Students Still Struggle to Understand Text One of the most frustrating things teachers hear is this: “They can read it… but they don’t...
What Schools Must Understand About Implementation, Teacher Growth, and Reading Outcomes Schools invest heavily in improving reading instruction. They spend money on: new curriculum...
What Schools Must Stop Doing If They Want Stronger Readers Every year, it happens. As testing season gets closer, schools begin to shift. Reading blocks start to change. Classrooms...
The Blueprint for K–5 Literacy Success If you spend enough time in schools, you start to notice a pattern. Some schools produce strong readers year after year. Not just a few standout...
What Schools Miss About Systemwide Literacy Improvement Across the country, there is a quiet frustration that school leaders are feeling more and more each year. They are doing: more...