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Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County,… Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County, West Virginia As the Zoom call connects, third grade teacher Jennifer Sparks and second grade teacher Stephanie Fabin sit side-by-side in Stephanie's classroom. School is out for the day at Williamson PK8, and they’ve stayed late to…
March 15, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + 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
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
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
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
5 Reasons Educators Love To Use ClearFluency 5 Reasons Educators Love To Use ClearFluency We all want kids to read with fluency: that magic triad of accuracy, speed, and expression.  Why is fluency so important?  Primarily because it’s the bridge between decoding and comprehension. When children begin reading fluently,…
May 11, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie 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
Want to Increase Tutoring Attendance? Do These… Want to Increase Tutoring Attendance? Do These 10 Things As Vice President of Tutoring Services here at Carnegie Learning, it’s my job to partner with districts to help them build the most effective, sustainable tutoring programs possible.  Research shows that high-dosage tutoring is one…
April 07, 2023 Courtney Lewis Filed Under: Teaching 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
Top 10 Reasons Students Should Be Reading… Top 10 Reasons Students Should Be Reading Out Loud My classroom was rarely quiet during my 16 years as a high school ELA teacher.  And not just because I taught 9th graders.  Although reflection and silent reading are skills every student needs, my students…
February 23, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage… Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage Brains Learn Best Maybe it’s nerdy, but we love brains.  Especially squishy, mile-a-minute, highly-malleable adolescent brains. They’re swimming in potential, managing warring impulses, and working so hard to connect all the new information they take in daily.    …
February 17, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under:
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
3 Tutoring Best Practices to Promote Equity… 3 Tutoring Best Practices to Promote Equity in Schools Anything worth doing is worth doing right.  And the stakes are high for schools to get it right with tutoring. Given the relative newness of most schoolwide tutoring programs, data is just starting to roll…
November 30, 2022 Amy Takabori Filed Under: ResearchTeaching Strategies
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
Boost Executive Functions to Foster Learning Gains Boost Executive Functions to Foster Learning Gains No matter what grade or subject you teach, your students need strong executive function skills to learn effectively. Now more than ever, the science of learning is proving how extensively executive functions impact academic skill-building,…
April 13, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceTeaching 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
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
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
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
What We’re Reading: Cognitive Psychology and Its… What We’re Reading: Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications At Carnegie Learning, we consider ourselves lifelong learners. Every day, we work on continually developing our knowledge in order to make the best possible math solutions for teachers and students. What We're Reading is a new series to share…
April 27, 2018 John Connelly Filed Under: Brain & Learning Science