When teachers adaptively use explicit instruction to engage their students with text, they weave together several important elements of effective instruction: scaffolds, engagement, knowledge building, and intensity through coherence and increased content coverage.
Interactive Teaching to Promote Independent Learning from Text
Reciprocal teaching has been effectively implemented by teachers working in both small and large group
settings, in a peer tutoring situation, in content area instruction, and most recently in listening comprehension instruction.
Teaching Reading Is More Than a Science: It’s Also an Art by Paige et al.
The art of teaching acknowledges teachers’ judgment and its role in the critical decisions made by teachers regarding the SOR and the selection, preparation, delivery, and assessment of literacy activities within the social interactions of the classroom.
What Constitutes a Science of Reading Instruction? by Timothy Shanahan
One’s comfort with today’s science of reading seems to depend on which instructional approaches one advocates and what one is willing to accept as determinative evidence. [In] this article, I delve into the nature of the kind of evidence that should be the basis of a science of reading instruction.
Impact of Classroom-Based Fluency Instruction on Grade One Students in an Urban Elementary School by Tim Rasinski et al.
[S]tagnation in reading growth
leads to a probable conclusion that instructional factors that promote early reading development are
either missing or are receiving less-than-optimal emphases in many curricular reading programs.
A Meta-Analytic Review of Cognition and Reading Difficulties by Peng Peng et al.
RD are one of the frontier topics in educational research and practice. Tremendous efforts are being made in research and policy to understand the profiles of RD and to design more individualized remediation plans.
Reading Above the Fray: Print Concepts by Julia B. Lindsey
Knowledge about how print operates and how it holds meaning allows children…simple access to the wide world of written language.
Reading Engagement in Social Studies [PDF] by Ana Taboada Barber et al
The authors examined the role of an intervention designed to increase reading comprehension, reading self-efficacy beliefs, and engagement in social studies for middle school students of varying language backgrounds.
Research Brief: Literacy Training for Inservice and Preservice K-2 Teachers[PDF]
Schacheter and Piasta conducted a phenomenological study in which 20 preschool teachers participated in observations, planning interviews, and simulated recall interviews designed with the goal of understanding how the teachers used data to guide their students’ language and literacy development.
The Word Nerds Project: Findings from a Research-Practice Partnership Focused on Spelling Instruction[PDF] by Laura S. Tortorelli and Lori Bruner
This paper describes the ‘Word Nerds’ project, a research–practice partnership consisting of two researchers from a large public university and 17 elementary teachers in seven school districts in the United States. The collaboration was formed to study variation in instructional practice among teachers using the Words Their Way programme and address teacher-generated questions related to how children learn to spell words.