Classroom Methods
Below are our 8 articles in the 'classroom methods' category:
The technique known as “guided reading” actually falls between the processes of “shared reading” and “independent reading”. Thus it’s an excellent “stepping stone” that can be used by teachers and ...
How often does the child in your life automatically pick up a book magazine, newspaper, comic, or other printed material simply for the pleasure of opening his or her mind? Believe it or not, that ...
Never assume that there could not possibly be a new way to teach reading.
In 1993 parents and educators Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness of the non-profit “Read America” shared with the world a ...
The Setting: You’re in a room with two or more children of roughly the same ages.
The Action: You take one child aside and begin to read a book to him or her.
The Result: All the children ...
As you’re sitting here reading this article, chances are that you aren’t thinking for long about each individual word. You’re simply recognizing the words “on sight” because they are familiar to ...
The technique of using synthetic phonics to help children to read has taken the UK by storm and is now the preferred teaching method in schools throughout the country. But are you familiar with what ...
For millennia, kids (and adults) have learned to read under many circumstances and without any help from technological devices. However, in our technology-driven industrial world, young people have ...
Who says teaching kids to read is controversy-free?
Currently, there is a raging (and growing) debate among linguists, politicians and educators between two methods of reading instruction: ...
