What is Explicit Instruction?
July 3, 2024
One of the big rallying calls of Structured Literacy is the need to embrace Explicit Instruction. For many of us, we have some familiarity with this concept as an obvious tool for effective teaching and learning. But for many, with more than a decade of inquiry learning...
Comprehension and Levelled Text
February 1, 2024
Teacher question: I have been reading a blog that suggests that we do away with levelled text for comprehension instruction. The reasoning is that too often we are subjecting students to text at what is supposedly an instructional level but which has no real comprehension ch...
Comprehension Skills vs Strategies?
September 19, 2023
I have spent twenty years championing the teaching of Comprehension Strategies as the be-all and end-all of comprehension instruction. Now I am not so sure. I still firmly embrace the use of strategies (the research still highlights the benefits for the reader), but of ...
SharpReading and The Science of Reading
September 9, 2022
"How does SharpReading align with the Science of Reading Comprehension?"'The Science of Reading' is often used to describe the recent research in neurological and cognitive science, studies that show how the brain processes written words. Based on these findings, the models ...
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