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Stories, faculty specialties, degree offerings, and professional development programs on the acquisition and development of language and reading skills and effective ways to support those skills
New comparative study from Ph.D. candidate Maya Alkateb-Chami finds strong correlation between low literacy outcomes for children and schools teaching in different language from home
With ongoing debates around the best ways to teach reading, what makes for truly effective literacy instruction?
"Somehow, we got caught up in thinking that kids would pick up that sound-symbol correspondence … and the science is very, very, very clear. That instruction needs to be explicit and intentional."
"We now know that some kids who step into kindergarten on their first day, with their little backpacks, have a heightened risk for struggling with learning to read. That’s a really important distinction in terms of policy and how early we should find these kids and intervene."
Research shows even infrequent readers get absorbed in reading
How educators are speaking out in response to recent — and increasing — book bans
Associate Professor Nadine Gaab on how earlier intervention can be the ultimate game-changer when it comes to identifying children with dyslexia and other learning differences
New research shows how parents can help kids — and themselves — use e-books as a tool to improve early childhood development
"It’s genuinely very hard to teach reading. We haven’t been as dogged in supporting teachers ... in teaching reading in a way that is as sophisticated and complex as it really is."
How schools and parents can help anxious students.
Recommendations for children, parents, and teachers that will enrich — and educate — through the summer months
A new study emphasizes the importance of the first year of life for long term language and literacy development
How media can help enrich language and literacy development in early childhood
Gives you the tools to address how literacy-related developments support student outcomes.
Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development
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