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Moats, Louisa C. – American Educator, 2023
The goals of LETRS are to build teachers' knowledge of language structure and the processes involved in learning to read words, spell, and comprehend, and then to help teachers apply these understandings in their classrooms. The LETRS courses, which are designed for teachers in grades K-3, are to be implemented over two years. In the first year of…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
Vaughn, Sharon; Fletcher, Jack M. – American Educator, 2023
There is much that parents and caregivers can do to help their struggling readers, beginning with understanding how reading is taught in the classroom. The authors of this article offer families a research-based set of six practices for what they can do to support their child with reading difficulties.
Descriptors: Children, Reading Difficulties, Parents, Child Caregivers
Ehr, Linnea C. – American Educator, 2023
In elementary school, an important goal of reading instruction is to enable children to read most words automatically by sight so that they can focus on learning from and enjoying what they are reading. But becoming a strong reader takes several years. Parents and caregivers need to know if a child is making good progress in learning to read.…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Spelling, Children
Cabell, Sonia Q. – American Educator, 2023
Although the focus in the early grades is often on teaching young children how to read, the ultimate goal of reading is to understand the text--whether to learn new information or simply enjoy a story. Building the groundwork needed for this understanding starts right from the beginning of life--and it's essential from the beginning of school.…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Language Skills, Comprehension
Catts, Hugh W. – American Educator, 2022
Reading comprehension is not a skill someone learns and can then apply in different reading contexts. It is one of the most complex activities that readers engage in on a regular basis, and the ability to comprehend is dependent upon a wide range of knowledge and skills. Despite a common view about comprehension, several lines of enquiry have…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Models, Knowledge Level, Reading Instruction
Washington, Julie A.; Seidenberg, Mark S. – American Educator, 2021
Teaching reading to children whose language differs from the oral language of the classroom and from the linguistic structure of academic text adds an additional layer of complexity to reading instruction. There is a large and growing body of evidence indicating that language variation impacts reading, spelling, and writing in predictable ways. In…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, African American Students, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Vaughn, Sharon; Fletcher, Jack M. – American Educator, 2021
The degree to which a student expresses a reading difficulty is always an interaction between the child's opportunity to learn (due to absences, instructional quality, or other issues) and the extent of the student's reading impairment. Thus, youngsters who are provided a genuine opportunity to learn to read--including high-quality, explicit,…
Descriptors: Identification, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Response to Intervention
Shanahan, Timothy – American Educator, 2020
A recent survey aimed at identifying the most popular current programs used to teach reading found that one common feature of all the top sellers was that they organize their teaching around leveled books. Other recent surveys show that teaching reading with leveled books is on the increase and that teachers believe it is endorsed or supported by…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Reading Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Reading Material Selection
Moats, Louisa C. – American Educator, 2020
The most fundamental responsibility of schools is teaching students to read. Because reading affects all other academic achievement and is associated with social, emotional, economic, and physical health, it has been the most researched aspect of human cognition. The fact that teachers need better preparation, professional development, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Murray, Maria – American Educator, 2020
The Reading League builds the understanding of evidence-aligned reading instruction and its application with a variety of supports for educators as they build their knowledge and professional networks around the science of reading. It builds the understanding of evidence-aligned reading instruction and its application with a variety of supports…
Descriptors: Activism, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Program Implementation
Duke, Nell K.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne E. – American Educator, 2019
The need to explicitly teach letter-sound relationships in U.S. classrooms is settled science. However, too often such instruction is not provided in the most efficient or effective way. These instructional missteps mean that fewer children will develop strong word-reading skills. In addition, ineffective phonics instruction is likely to require…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Alphabets, Reading Instruction
Wright, Tanya S. – American Educator, 2019
Interactive read-alouds, where adults read text to children and facilitate discussion of the text, are an incredibly effective method for supporting children's literacy learning. In this article, Tanya Wright, an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, describes some of the knowledge and skills that…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Literacy, Reading Skills, Early Childhood Education
Duke, Nell K. – American Educator, 2016
In a project-based learning approach, students work over an extended time period for a purpose beyond satisfying a school requirement--to build something, to create something, to respond to a question they have, to solve a real problem, or to address a real need. For example, students might work to plan, plant, and cultivate a garden to help feed…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Design
Guernsey, Lisa; Levine, Michael H. – American Educator, 2016
Young children today are gaining access to a dizzying array of apps, games, and videos. With all of this digital media at their fingertips, two urgent questions have emerged in preschools and elementary schools: Could technology interfere with the way children learn to read? Or could it help? While questions continue to arise about the challenges…
Descriptors: Young Children, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Computer Oriented Programs
Shanahan, Timothy – American Educator, 2013
With the Common Core State Standards, instruction in English language arts will dramatically change. Unlike prior state standards, these new standards place a greater emphasis on reading challenging texts. To that end, teachers will need to support students in paying closer attention to such texts. Instead of focusing on pre-reading activities…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Language Arts, Reading Instruction