Aha!

A blog dedicated to moments of knowledge building and enlightenment

Preparing for Statewide and Standardized Assessments with Wit & Wisdom®

Teachers of English language arts (ELA) know the complexity of their discipline. Reading comprehension is an internal cognitive process that...

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

The new year offers a chance for a new beginning—to reflect, resolve,...

All Wit & Wisdom students engage in a transferable process—the Content Stages—to read grade-level texts so that all develop comprehension skills...

early literacy

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July 1, 2021

Educators have cause for concern. Only about a third of Grade 4 students are proficient readers. A disproportionate number of low-income students...

December 25, 2020

Jan Busey was nervous. After years in the classroom, the retired teacher was about to start recording literacy video lessons for the first time,...

August 23, 2019

Great Minds® embraces the research that knowledge building should start at the outset of a student’s education. But what does that look like for...