Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

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Many years ago, around 2010, I attended a professional development program in Houston called Literacy Through Photography, at a time when I was searching for practical ways to strengthen comprehension ...

What Is A Reading Specialist? A reading specialist is an educational professional who works with individuals that struggle to gain or improve literacy skills. Working primarily with children at the ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the roles of reading strategies in literacy instruction? In Part One, the guests responding to the question were Colleen Cruz, Ross Cooper, Lindsey Moses, and ...