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Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction

Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction

For School Leaders, Text-dependent Instruction

Did you know that one of the best ways to improve your students’ reading skills is through writing? That’s right—even though there’s often a separation between reading and writing instruction in the classroom, the two skills are more closely related...
What to Do With Your Leveled Readers!

What to Do With Your Leveled Readers!

For School Leaders, Text-dependent Instruction

​So your school is transitioning to the science of reading, but there’s one big problem—you still have all the A-Z leveled readers and predictable books that were purchased to align with your old curriculum and balanced literacy practices. If you’re looking at...
Strategies for Improving Fluency

Strategies for Improving Fluency

For School Leaders, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, Text-dependent Instruction

What comes to mind when you hear the term fluency? Is it fast, timed reading? The number of words a student can read in a one minute? While speed and accuracy are two factors to include when assessing fluency, fluency also includes expression, smoothness, pace and...
Seven Strategies to Support Vocabulary Instruction

Seven Strategies to Support Vocabulary Instruction

For School Leaders, Text-dependent Instruction

Vocabulary is one of the language comprehension strands in Scarborough’s Reading Rope (Scarborough, H.S., 2001) and includes word meaning, breadth (number of words known), depth (richness of word knowledge), and precision (accurate use of words in context), with a...
Science of Teaching Reading Gift Guide!

Science of Teaching Reading Gift Guide!

For School Leaders, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, Text-dependent Instruction, Uncategorized

There’s still time to check off any remaining gifts on your list, especially gifts that support the science of teaching reading! Whether you’re shopping for other educators, treating yourself or your class to a gift, or even making suggestions to parents, we’ve...
The Latest Research (and Debate) on Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Instruction

The Latest Research (and Debate) on Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Instruction

For School Leaders, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, Text-dependent Instruction, Uncategorized

Let’s talk about a recent debate in the science of reading world around phonological and phonemic awareness instruction. Something that’s really important to us here at The Literacy Architects is making sure our PD and curricular recommendations are tied to...
The Inefficiencies of Running Records

The Inefficiencies of Running Records

For School Leaders, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, Text-dependent Instruction, Uncategorized

As an educator, you may be familiar with the term, “running records”. They are a benchmarking tool used by teachers to assess a student’s reading level. As a student reads a text aloud, teachers record the student’s word reading accuracy, errors, and self-corrections,...
5 Benefits of Self-paced Professional Development

5 Benefits of Self-paced Professional Development

For School Leaders, Uncategorized

After a year of endless video calls, self-paced professional development can feel like a welcome respite from live webinars. Sure, you could take the time to Google videos or create a playlist on YouTube to learn about a new topic, but a cohesive self-paced (i.e.,...

Reframing “Learning Loss”:
What Does it Mean for Teacher PD?

For School Leaders, Uncategorized

Defining learning loss Learning loss is often described as the gap between what educators expect students should have learned by a certain time and the reality of what they have actually learned. But, how do we define what a student “should have learned”? Are we...

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  • Seven Strategies to Support Vocabulary Instruction
  • Science of Teaching Reading Gift Guide!
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