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Finding the main idea or understanding what you read is one link in a chain of reading skills, and each skill relies on and supports one another. To comprehend text, students must first be able to understand the phonological components of language (that sounds are represented by letters), then they must be able to decode
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Jo Boaler, a British education author and a professor of mathematics education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, has completed extensive research on how we learn math from early infancy through adulthood. By studying parts of our brain where math facts are held and manipulated, she concludes that many of the methodologies currently used to
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High school senior Piper Otterbein in a TEDx Youth video speaks about her struggles with dyslexia and the strengths she has realized because of it.
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Explore and understand active reading strategies. This one-page summary from McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University outlines ways that teachers can encourage and support active reading in their classrooms.
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Learn more about effective reading instruction. This Reading Teacher article from 2002 outlines data and analysis on the idea that how reading is taught is important to reading progress. Although over a decade old, this article supports the case for explicit reading instruction using phonics and other building blocks to reading.
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Learn about the different types of motivation in the classroom. This article from Mindshift explores and summarizes information from a working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child out of Harvard University. The paper explored not only what can prevent motivation but what also can inspire it.
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Understand the need for research-based reading instruction in schools. Louisa Moats writes this practitioners guide to identifying effective reading programs that follow a progression of reading skills from phonemic awareness through reading comprehension.
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Understand how to support students with learning disabilities. This Edutopia article outlines research and resources that debunk common myths around learning differences and outlines ways that teachers can work to help all students achieve.
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The Importance of Interest and Motivation Recent research about brain functions demonstrates the value of interest and motivation in the development of academic skills, specifically for secondary students. FMRIs have allowed researchers to study the activation of different areas of the brain during specific tasks. This research suggests that students need to be interested and
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