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The latest reading test results should be troubling to all. I’m reacting to the PISA results that were recently issued (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2026). PISA – Programme for International Student A...
When I was becoming a teacher I learned a five-step approach for teaching decoding. 1. Visual discrimination 2. Auditory discrimination 3. Auditory-visual matching 4. Word reading practice 5. Text reading practice Let’s say, you were trying to teach the letter “s” in the initial position. You’d make sure the students could recog...
Should We Still Teach Close Reading? Blast from the Past: The Common Core State Standards introduced the idea of “close reading,” in elementary reading instruction. I wrote a version of this entry on June 18, 2012, hoping to ex...
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