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The Value of Building Background Knowledge The Value of Building Background Knowledge The leveled reading theory has been a widely accepted approach in education for years. But is it as effective as it claims to be?  This theory suggests that teachers should give students texts that are…
February 27, 2024 Megan Jensen Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
4 Reading Comprehension Strategies for Your Secondary… 4 Reading Comprehension Strategies for Your Secondary Students The science of reading is everywhere nowadays in classrooms and policy, and rightfully so. It is grounded in what we know about cognitive science. It works. However, trends—even the evidence-based ones—often come with extremes.  The…
February 07, 2024 Larisa Merriman-Raban Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGTeaching Strategies
5 Improv Theater Games You Can Try… 5 Improv Theater Games You Can Try Today With Your Language Learners When I signed up for an improv theater class, I never thought of combining my passion for theater with my passion for teaching languages. But once I applied improv-inspired conversation games in the classroom, everything…
December 07, 2023 Natalia Álvarez-Morillo Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
2023 Dyslexia Research Updates 2023 Dyslexia Research Updates October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, so you know what that means! It’s time to look at the new research and how teachers can use it to support their students with dyslexia. We’re highlighting three takeaways…
October 23, 2023 Karen Sloan Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearch
Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20… Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20 Years In Mary Albers, Educational Consultant for Fast ForWord® at Smoky Hill Education Service Center in Salina, Kansas, has been using the language and reading program Fast ForWord for 20 years. And she has no intention of stopping.  …
October 16, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
Use Reading and Writing Standards to Build… Use Reading and Writing Standards to Build Better ELA Assignments Let me start with a misleading stat. In 2018, TNTP partnered with five districts to observe nearly 1000 lessons and review nearly 22,000 samples of student work. They found that 71% of students succeeded in…
August 17, 2023 Megan Jensen Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
How Fast ForWord Helps English Learners Build… How Fast ForWord Helps English Learners Build Literacy As a literacy teacher, you’re basically a superhero.  Helping students develop strong listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills may be rewarding, but it is also no small task. And chances are, you’re not just teaching…
August 10, 2023 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
Breaking the Ice: 20 Activities for the… Breaking the Ice: 20 Activities for the First Day of School The first day of school is a whirlwind of excitement and possibilities. It's the perfect time to foster a sense of community and introduce activities that will set the tone for the rest of the year.…
August 08, 2023 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
Q&A: Natalie Wexler Revisits Reading Comprehension Q&A: Natalie Wexler Revisits Reading Comprehension Literacy educators have long scanned the horizon for the best updates to teaching reading comprehension, and ever since the science of reading has entered our field of vision, it’s pretty much all we can see–to…
June 23, 2023 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
Improve ELA Learning with Formative Assessment Mapping Improve ELA Learning with Formative Assessment Mapping Like many former teachers, I love hearing from past students.  But sometimes, what they say surprises me. For instance, when I asked on social media what text they enjoyed most in their AP Literature class,…
June 23, 2023 Nicole Renner Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
Q&A: Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz on Racial Literacy Q&A: Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz on Racial Literacy “Teaching is being open to other people’s stories,” says Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz. “But you have to know your own story. If you’re not aware of who you are and what you bring to the classroom,…
June 16, 2023 Amy Takabori Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in… K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in STAR Early Literacy Scores McKinley Elementary School is a small, diverse school nestled in the heart of The Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. Doug Rich, a literacy specialist and educator of 27 years, works with K-5 students with dyslexia…
June 12, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its… This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its Own Reward When Missy Coffey started working as a reading interventionist at Farmingdale Elementary School in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, in 2019, she had never heard of Fast ForWord®. But her school had been using the adaptive language…
June 09, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
8 Ways To Get the Most out… 8 Ways To Get the Most out of The National Institute Congratulations on your upcoming trip to The National Institute.  Inspiring Power Talks, high-energy collaborative learning, and our famous five-star treatment are headed your way.  Excited yet? We are!  As you prepare to travel to TNI,…
June 06, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional Learning
Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club When it comes to motivating students to keep on truckin’ even when the work gets challenging, we’ve seen teachers go the extra mile…or ten! Pizza parties, doughnut breaks, gift cards.  Special assemblies, bulletin boards, and t-shirts.…
May 18, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language Arts
What Is Literacy for All: The National… What Is Literacy for All: The National Institute? Updated May 12, 2023 with this year's events details. As a passionate educator, you’ve probably been to professional conferences before. Can we take a guess? There were 5,000-8,000+ attendees, 300-400+ concurrent sessions, a 200+ page…
May 12, 2023 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsProfessional Learning
Reading Fluency: Why Prosody Is Important and… Reading Fluency: Why Prosody Is Important and How to Build It When I was preparing to work as a reading interventionist, I learned about the trifecta of intertwined elements that make up reading fluency: accuracy, rate, and prosody.  Accuracy and rate were fairly easy to pin…
May 02, 2023 Megan Jensen Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
How Fast ForWord Helps Students With Dyslexia… How Fast ForWord Helps Students With Dyslexia Learn to Read When I was an educational diagnostician, most of the students I tested had difficulty with reading.  But one student, in particular, stands out.  He had the highest IQ of any student I tested during those…
April 05, 2023 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language Arts
10 Reasons TNI Is the Best Educator… 10 Reasons TNI Is the Best Educator PD Event of the Summer Have you heard about The National Institutes (TNI)?  If not, let us introduce you to your dream professional development experience. TNI for math, literacy, and world language educators will inspire and rejuvenate you with a mix…
March 22, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional Learning
Bust a Talk Move!: Elementary Classroom Discussions Bust a Talk Move!: Elementary Classroom Discussions We’ve all had those moments in a classroom when you, as the teacher, have planned a great discussion about a particular topic or text. You’ve set aside a good chunk of time in your timetable…
March 07, 2023 Sonya Fleming Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
6 Powerful TNI Speakers in Math and… 6 Powerful TNI Speakers in Math and Literacy That You’ll Love With amazing thought leaders in math and literacy, this year’s The National Institutes (TNI) are the perfect professional learning events for educators looking to learn, collaborate, and grow! If you’re looking for a rejuvenating PL…
February 06, 2023 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsLONG + LIVE + MATHProfessional Learning
The Power of Pulse Checks in the… The Power of Pulse Checks in the ELA Classroom Flash back to 2018 to one of the cringiest moments in my ELA teaching career. I was eight years in—so not a newbie— and I had a toolbox of strategies that had worked in the…
January 10, 2023 Heather Sampselle Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
ELA Classroom Activity: Celebrate the Winter Solstice… ELA Classroom Activity: Celebrate the Winter Solstice With Visual Poetry When you hear “winter solstice,” what do you think of?  The longest night of the year? The earth sleeping under a blanket of snow?   More likely, because you’re an ELA teacher, this time of year…
December 13, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGTeaching Strategies
Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of… Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2022 ‘Tis the season of top ten lists, and we thought we’d join the fun. Here’s a look at our most popular blog posts published in 2022. 1. On Trend Our most popular blog post of…
December 13, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD, Karen Sloan Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHThe State of Education
Want to Build Strong Literacy? Get Out… Want to Build Strong Literacy? Get Out the MAPS! Ready to dive into how literacy and cognitive skills work hand-in-hand?  As I discussed in a previous post, strong reading relies on the five pillars of phonemic awareness, vocabulary, phonics, comprehension, and fluency. But as…
November 10, 2022 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceThe State of Education
What the Science of Learning Teaches Us… What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Building Literacy During my 16 years as a special education teacher and educational diagnostician, I worked with many students who struggled with reading. Looking back, I can see that their challenges were not only related to poor…
November 09, 2022 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceThe State of Education
2022 Dyslexia Research Updates 2022 Dyslexia Research Updates October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and that means it's time to take a look at new research on how we can better support our students with dyslexia. We're highlighting three recent articles that expand our…
October 10, 2022 Martha Burns, Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
8 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading 8 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading When I was a graduate student in English, I took a German reading class to fulfill a language requirement. It was, to put it mildly, a challenge for me.  For reasons I still don’t understand,…
September 22, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
Fast ForWord: A Language and Reading Intervention… Fast ForWord: A Language and Reading Intervention with Strong Evidence Make the most of your precious time by implementing a reading intervention that's proven to work! Explore the evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of the Fast ForWord reading and language program, and rest easy knowing…
September 01, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language Arts
3 High School ELA Icebreakers to Get… 3 High School ELA Icebreakers to Get Your Students Talking When I was a first-year English teacher, I made a typical rookie mistake with my ninth-graders.  Namely, I didn’t put enough thought into my opening-day icebreaker, thinking we would each just share a book we…
August 11, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
What Made The National Institute the Best… What Made The National Institute the Best Teacher PD in Summer 2022 It’s summer, and ‘tis the season for professional learning! Nothing gets us more excited than empowering educators with the tools, training, and support to bring their dream classrooms to life. That's why we make sure…
July 29, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
5 Tools To Bring Playful Learning Into… 5 Tools To Bring Playful Learning Into Your Classroom “WHY DO I HAVE TO DO THIS?”  Every day. Right on cue. When it was time to practice sight words, my first-grader would slide off his chair, crumple to the floor, and ask me this…
June 22, 2022 Megan Jensen Filed Under: English Language ArtsThe State of Education
5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every… 5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every Day Do students write every day in your classroom?  If not, you’re not alone. Research on writing frequency suggests that just a quarter of middle and high school students write for at least 30 minutes a…
April 14, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceTeaching Strategies
Literacy Professional Learning Sessions to Get Excited… Literacy Professional Learning Sessions to Get Excited About Our ELA professional learning team is getting more and more excited about seeing educators at the 2022 literacy conference for teachers, Literacy for All: The National Institute. It’s bound to be a memorable event! Not…
March 25, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
Can Executive Function Make All Readers Our… Can Executive Function Make All Readers Our Best Readers? Literacy teachers, do these questions keep you up at night? How do I help students who respond well to phonics-based instruction but still struggle to read fluently? What else can I do to help them?…
February 24, 2022 Martha Burns Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceResearch
3 Power Talk Speakers at Literacy for… 3 Power Talk Speakers at Literacy for All: The National Institute Meet one of the 2024 TNI Power Talk presenters, Amy Mayer, CEO of friEDTech. Are you registered for LITERACY FOR ALL: The National Institute yet? If not, there’s still time. Modeled after our well-loved LONG…
February 24, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsProfessional Learning
ELA Spotlight: How to Ask Questions That… ELA Spotlight: How to Ask Questions That Students Love to Answer Students learn best when they learn from each other.  But this doesn’t mean that your role as an ELA teacher isn’t critical. After all, you facilitate discussions, which are a large part of how students…
February 17, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsProfessional Learning
3 Poems and Classroom Activities to Teach… 3 Poems and Classroom Activities to Teach Joy Harjo, National Poet Laureate In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first Native American poet laureate of the United States, a post she continues to hold in 2022. A member of the Mvskoke/Creek nation, Harjo has been writing poems, music,…
February 03, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
5 Benefits of Reading Out Loud in… 5 Benefits of Reading Out Loud in Your Classroom Did you celebrate World Read Aloud Day as a student? Is it a tradition you’ve kept going as an educator?  I have fond memories of World Read Aloud Day during my years as a high…
January 31, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning Science
15 Winter Break Reading Suggestions to Entertain,… 15 Winter Break Reading Suggestions to Entertain, Educate, and Inspire With winter break fast approaching, we hope you’re planning to spend some time doing the things you love best. And we know that, for many teachers, reading is on this list. If you’re looking for…
December 07, 2021 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language Arts
A Rich American Tapestry: 5 Indigenous Poets… A Rich American Tapestry: 5 Indigenous Poets to Teach Right Now It’s always a good day to teach Indigenous poets, but doing so in November is an especially great way to honor Native American Heritage Month. Challenge and inspire your ELA students by teaching these five…
November 19, 2021 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language Arts
2021 Dyslexia Research Updates 2021 Dyslexia Research Updates October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and we’re excited to present our 7th annual webinar, “2021 Dyslexia Research and Evidence-Based Best Practices” with neuroscientist and Northwestern University Adjunct Associate Professor Dr. Martha Burns on Thursday, October…
October 15, 2021 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceResearchTeaching StrategiesThe State of Education
How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy… How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy When It Comes to Reading I have a confession to make. When I think about reading, I don’t think of it as a strand within English language arts. I think of it as the academic equivalent of breathing—an essential life…
August 19, 2021 Logan De Ley Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
A Compact Guide to Teaching Living Poets A Compact Guide to Teaching Living Poets This is the second installment of our National Poetry Month series. Check out Part 1, "Why Teach Poetry?"   “The best way to enjoy contemporary verse is simply to read it as though you were…
April 28, 2021 Megan Jensen Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie Learning
Why Teach Poetry? Why Teach Poetry? This is the first installment of our National Poetry Month series. Check out Part 2, "A Compact Guide to Teaching Living Poets."   While I generally identify as a rule follower, there were moments in…
April 14, 2021 Nicole Renner Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
Tackle Learning Loss with the Science of… Tackle Learning Loss with the Science of Reading How will you determine the best education technology to invest in with your portion of funding from the American Rescue Plan?  Effective learning recovery plans must include evidence-based, research-proven education technology powered by the science…
March 22, 2021 Martha Burns, Amy Takabori Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
Amanda Gorman Poems to Boost Your Students’… Amanda Gorman Poems to Boost Your Students’ Love of Poetry Amanda Gorman's powerful poetry became famous after her 2021 Presidential Inauguration performance of "The Hill We Climb." Her work is a valuable tool for ELA teachers who want to boost their students' love of poetry. …
February 22, 2021 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: English Language ArtsLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
How to Build Confidence and Other SEL… How to Build Confidence and Other SEL Skills in Adolescent Readers When students struggle with reading, their confidence drops as they fall behind their peers. By the time they're adolescents, they may feel socially and emotionally isolated. Thus commences a domino effect of a lack of…
July 13, 2020 Karen Sloan Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearch
How to Foster Executive Function in Every… How to Foster Executive Function in Every Grade What Does Executive Function Look Like? When I taught English to middle school students, I learned what executive function looked like firsthand. Sasha was the model student. She followed instructions after hearing them once. She…
January 31, 2020 Amy Takabori Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceProfessional Learning