Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers.
You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers. You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
As Don Holdaway (1979) believed when he designed the instructional approach we know as Shared Reading, “children who are not thoroughly familiar with the ...
In today’s educational milieu, various versions of guided reading exist. Most versions offer three components: an introduction before reading, reading and di...
What Is Shared Reading?
Shared Reading is an instructional approach used to support students to read, think, and discuss texts. It’s part of a broader balanc...
Join literacy consultant Debra Crouch in this part 1 of the Shared Reading Webinar Series. Here she focuses on the intention behind the Shared Reading Approach,...
In this part 2 of the Shared Reading Webinar Series Debra focuses on the kinds of instruction that occurs once the text has become familiar to students, what ha...
Watch as Educational Consultant, Debra Crouch focuses on extending Shared Reading for Emergent and Early Readers. In this final part of the Shared Reading Webin...
Any Volunteers to Read an Engineering Textbook?
We are still in an interesting place in our field when it comes to student assessment and this culture of accou...
Text is meaningful
We have to explicitly teach them to come to print with the position that this text is meaningful and I, as the reader, need to interact wi...
You know how when you play the telephone game, you start with one message and by the time you get to the last person, the message changed dramatically from the...