If I were writing the headline for the next newspaper story on the SATs, here’s what you’d see: “Seniors and Their SAT Scores Sabotaged by Low-Level Textbooks.” The literacy level of our secondary students is languishing because the kids are not reading what they need to be reading.
Centering Language and Student Voice in Multilingual Literacy Instruction [PDF] by C. Patrick Proctor, Rebecca D. Silverman, and Renata Love Jones
In this article, the authors draw from 3 years of intensive work with multilingual students and their teachers to describe four principles to guide multilingual literacy instruction.
Training Pediatric Residents in Literacy Promotion: Residency Directors’ Perspectives by Joanna Elizabeth Kinney et al.
[W]e sought to gain insight into
the current state of literacy promotion education in pediatric residency programs and the barriers faced in educating pediatric residents from the perspective of residency program directors.
Curriculum Associates: Putting Scientific Evidence to Work in Reading Instruction by D. Ray Reutzel
The reading wars between proponents of phonics-based and other approaches designed to teach children to read have been around for many years. [E]very few decades this …battle erupts anew….