Avoid Island Teaching – Integrate Literacy Instruction
Twice in my life I’ve had the pleasure of living on tropical islands. For 3 years in the 1980s we lived at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In the ’90s, we lived for 2 years on Guam, which is located between Hawaii and Japan. Guam is one of 15 of the Mariana Islands, […]
How One Kindergarten Teacher Got All of Her Students Reading
The 2019-2020 school year proved to be quite the year for US schools (and schools all over the world). In Michigan, where there were 120,000+ kindergartners across nearly 3,000 schools, it was also the sixth year the state implemented common core standards in full. Julie VanLier, a Michigan Kindergarten Teacher of nearly 20 years, explains […]
The Foundation that Leads to Great Reading – PART 2
Part 2: Accelerate Instruction As we established in Part 1 of this blog series, English is an alphabetic code. The skills needed to manage this code and the concepts that are unique to the code are covered in Part 1. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend doing so. You may find it helpful […]