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Implementing Wit & Wisdom: An Evaluation Research Report

Johns Hopkins University studied the impact of Wit & Wisdom ® on students whose teachers began using the ELA curriculum during the 2018–2019 school...

Supporting Equitable English Language Arts Instruction Through Knowledge-Building Text Sets

Every child deserves access to rigorous grade-level content. Too often, early literacy instruction focuses only on word recognition and not on...

The Science of Reading: What is prior knowledge and why is it important?

Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope famously shows us that reading is one of the most complex things that we do on a routine basis. Skilled reading...

All Students Can Read Complex Texts

Research shows that meeting students where they are by providing easy-to-access texts will not prepare students for reading beyond the classroom....

How To Make English Language Arts Accessible For Multilingual Learners

After spending many years teaching grade 4, I took a leap into a middle school English learner teaching position. Within a week, I had a grade 5...

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