With candor, encouragement, and evidence-based instruction, educators can help all students realize their potential.| www.shankerinstitute.org
Districts like New York are revamping elementary school reading instruction. But the middle and high schoolers who don’t read proficiently are an afterthought.| www.nytimes.com
The implications of cognitive load theory for learning, and how to design instruction to minimise cognitive load and maximise learning.| THE EDUCATION HUB
Project for Adolescent Literacy| Seek Common Ground
The complex syntax of written language is often a stumbling block.| nataliewexler.substack.com
Many students above third grade need help deciphering words with multiple syllables| nataliewexler.substack.com
The key factor isn't "skills and strategies"--it's knowledge.| nataliewexler.substack.com
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now rec...| features.apmreports.org