Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the biggest mistake teachers make in writing instruction, and what should they do instead? In Part One, Lisa Eickholdt, Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski, Mary Ann ...

Recent scholarly efforts have advanced our understanding of writing instruction by examining both the cognitive and motivational dimensions that underpin student development. Research in this area has ...

With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.

(This is the last post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the biggest mistake teachers make in writing ...