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Elfrieda H. Hiebert – Reading Teacher, 2024
Ensuring effective texts for student reading acquisition is a shared goal. This paper addresses the efficacy of decodable and leveled texts, their word features, and outcomes of reorganizing texts by vowel patterns and topics. Sparse evidence supports one text type's superiority in building a strong reading foundation. Further, the decoding…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading), Skill Development, Reading Instruction
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Morgan, Denise N.; DeFrancesco, Justine – Reading Teacher, 2022
Helping students learn how to interpret themes in text can be, without a doubt, challenging. Students benefit from knowing different aspects/textual elements within stories to look for when constructing themes. In this teaching and learning guide, we share seven concrete ways to help students anchor their theme thinking. These seven elements can…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Elizabeth Zagata – Reading Teacher, 2024
Reading and writing are often taught separately. This article explores the crucial relations between these skills, emphasizing the importance of understanding the "what" and "why" to effectively plan the "how" of integrated reading-writing instruction. The Interactive Dynamic Literacy Model (Kim, "Reading-writing…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Reading Writing Relationship, Teaching Methods
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Anna Elizabeth Kambach; Heidi Anne Mesmer – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article discusses language comprehension and developing skills with emergent readers, in particular verbal reasoning and language structures, that are necessary for later reading comprehension.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading, Reading Skills, Skill Development
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Micah Watanabe; Tracy Arner; Danielle McNamara – Reading Teacher, 2024
Students in the 3rd and 4th grade often encounter what has been called a reading "slump" when their class curriculums increasingly ask them to comprehend and learn from texts. Students are more likely to struggle if they have not been offered sufficient opportunities to build world and domain knowledge and engage in challenging…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Sharon Walpole – Reading Teacher, 2024
In this invited Viewpoint, Sharon Walpole tracks her thinking about feasible, effective, small-group differentiated instruction. She acknowledges political pressures and the focus on science of reading. She describes the attractiveness and feasibility of guided reading. She then identifies some salient criticisms of the assessments, texts, and…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Bruner, Lori; Hutchison, Amy – Reading Teacher, 2023
While reading digital texts requires many of the same foundational literacy skills as reading printed texts, it also requires skills that go beyond print-based reading. In this article, we argue that the skills children need to read, understand, and communicate about digital texts is a Core Disciplinary Practice that should be addressed in the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Electronic Publishing, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
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Erickson, Joy Dangora; Ward, Alessandra E.; Boivin, Jacquelynne Anne; Fornauf, Beth – Reading Teacher, 2021
The authors illustrate the compatibility of building K-2 readers' foundational skills and their motivation for completing reading and related tasks within reading interventions. First, the authors introduce the orthographic mapping process, which requires foundational reading skills because of its role in facilitating fluent reading. Research…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Beginning Reading, Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Amber Lawson – Reading Teacher, 2024
When young children of Color from minoritized communities read decodable readers mandated by their school districts, children approach reading the texts with the expectation that the texts will make sense. While decodable readers allow children to apply their knowledge of phonics skills in context to support their word recognition, they tend to…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
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Brewer, Brittany M.; Phillippe, Allison – Reading Teacher, 2022
In this article, we explore how character perspective-taking can support students' reading comprehension, as well as opportunities to engage social-emotional learning (SEL). We start by defining character perspective-taking and SEL. Then, we present strategies for practicing character perspective-taking in classrooms, how these strategies are…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Reading Comprehension, Social Emotional Learning, Small Group Instruction
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Letchford, Lois; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2021
"Little" words often carry complex meanings. Pronoun resolution is an essential component of comprehension. Skilled readers work to maintain text cohesion (i.e., they resolve the pronouns as needed.) Less proficient readers often are not as proficient in resolving pronouns. Limited pronoun resolution limits comprehension. This article…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Walsh-Moorman, Elizabeth; Hovick, Kate – Reading Teacher, 2021
A classroom teacher and a university researcher examined what criteria fourth-grade students use to examine text authority and how traditional and new literacy skills may support such evaluation. Results of this case study indicate that students rely heavily on traditional reading skills, including background knowledge and vocabulary skill, to…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Information Sources, Credibility
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Hooper, Alison – Reading Teacher, 2023
The article highlights connections between music and movement activities and emergent literacy development among infants and toddlers. I review how music is linked to phonological awareness, oral language, vocabulary, and other related skills that support reading, like executive function. I also highlight the benefits of including…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Music, Play, Singing
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Washington, Julie A.; Lee-James, Ryan; Stanford, Carla Burrell – Reading Teacher, 2023
There is tremendous variation in the use of American English by major geographic regions, as well as within these regions or cities, and by cultural background. The variety of English spoken by many African American people in the United States is called African American English (AAE). AAE affects early literacy skills in ways that may require…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Black Dialects, Language Variation, Teaching Methods
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Elena E. Forzani; Christina Dobbs; Christine Leider; Emily Malik; Melanie Gragg; Clara Greszczuk; Courtney Jesberger – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article offers a framework for more equitable classroom reading assessment known as a Critical Assessment Practices (CAPS) approach. CAPS includes a set of four principles that teachers can use to partner with, and to empower, students to support more equitable and informative classroom-based reading assessment. Teachers can apply the CAPS…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Principles
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