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Digital Reading: What You Need to Know About Screens, School, and the Changing Brain

It is clear that screens and software learning programs are here to stay, both in the classroom and in the private lives of students and teachers. A...

Adolescent Literacy: Addressing the Needs of Refugee Students

Students who come to the classroom as refugees often bring with them a host of unique opportunities and challenges. First, a little clarity: Refugees...

Literacy Gap Alert: How to Help Students of Color Reach Their Full Potential

A 2018 post on Room 241—a website associated with the education department at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon—took on a hot topic: the...

Recognizing and Changing Low Expectations for English Learners

The number of English learners, or EL students, has been rising steadily in recent years. According to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, there...

Want to Improve Adolescent Literacy Rates? Consider Implementing a Multimodal Approach to Learning

Many modern-day teachers and education researchers are focused on an important topic: how to improve adolescent literacy rates. One framework that...

Strategies for Boosting Literacy Rates and Building Lifelong Readers

There is plenty of concern these days about how literate America’s K-12 students are, and statistics indicate that this concern is well-placed....

Turning College- and Career-Readiness from Dream to Reality

Getting all students “college- and career-ready” is the centerpiece for much of today’s education policy. Going back until at least the beginning of...

How a Focus on Writing Across the Curriculum Can Help Boost Writing Skills

In the February 2017 issue of the Educational Leadership journal, California teacher Kelly Gallagher made a straightforward declaration: “Wide swaths...

4 Ways to Engage Families of English Learners

Family engagement has been widely accepted as one of the key factors that supports student achievement, reduces dropout rates, and positively impacts...

Can Music Help Low-Income Students Read and Succeed at Higher Rates?

Early exposure to music has been recognized as an important way for very young children, including infants, to gain early literacy and pre-reading...

Use of Lexia® Core5® Reading Supports the Development of Early Literacy Skills

In a study with young children identified as at risk for for reading difficulties, those who used Lexia® Core5® Reading outperformed those who did not use the program on tests of pre-literacy skills.

How Growth Mindset Can Benefit Students Struggling with Reading

When was the last time you completed a monumental task? Maybe you ran a marathon, started a new job, or learned to play a musical instrument. There...