The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

“If Savannah is going to thrive, kids have to be able to read,” said Kareem Weaver, co-founder and executive director of FULCRUM, to a group of roughly fifty members and guests of Savannah Chamber of ...

There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

Guiding students to infer the meaning of a word from a set of images may be more powerful than providing a definition. Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to ...

In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher. After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I ...