Reading is all about knowledge; it’s not just for practice. Students need the chance to read books and articles clustered around worthwhile content—topics like amazing… Read More »Getting Back to the Page & Staying There
Kristin Conradi Smith is an Associate Professor of Reading Education at the College of William and Mary’s School of Education. Her research falls into three
Rare words typically make up only 5% or less of the total words in texts, but it’s often these words that get students anxious about
… Read More »Bad with Names: Why Proper Names Deserve Instructional Attention
Words are not only a means of communicating, but a foundation of learning.
A small part of the English vocabulary accounts for the majority of the words in the texts students read across the grades – but some
Some thoughts for Literacy Research Association session: Opening up the ivory tower: Examining the elements of open, digitally engaged scholarship (November 28, 2018, Indian Wells,
… Read More »What Does It Mean To Be A Digitally Literate Scholar?
Short sentences and less text don’t add up to proficient reading. But that’s exactly what the current wave of leveled texts offers.
The question of how much growth to set as goals for oral reading fluency depends on the grade level and where students are in relation… Read More »What Should Goals Be For Increasing Students’ Oral Reading Rates?
When computers were invented in the 1930s scientists created new words to describe the new machine. When computers became widely used by people, people began
Las Vegas. New York. Pie Town. Toponyms, or the names of places, are as different as the people who have named them. By learning
