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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
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
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
The Science of Assessment: Research-Backed Approaches The Science of Assessment: Research-Backed Approaches Assessment comes in many forms, but some approaches may spark student success better than others. In our recent webinar, “The Science of Assessment: Research-Backed Approaches to Formative Assessment,” our Chief Scientist and Founder, Dr. Steve…
December 15, 2022 Megan Fitzgerald Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningResearchTeaching 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
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