Classroom Methods

Discover effective teaching methods and strategies for developing children's reading skills in the classroom. Learn how experienced educators build confidence and fluency.

D.E.A.R Days: Drop Everything and Read

Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) Days are popular in the US as a means of encouraging reading, creating buzz about picking up a book and treating children...

Guided Reading

The technique known as “guided reading” actually falls between the processes of “shared reading” and “independent reading”. Thus it’s an excell...

Hosting an Author in the Classroom

Hosting an author in the classroom is a real treat for students, staff and even parent volunteers. Many of today’s bestselling British children’s authors...

Independent Reading

How often does the child in your life automatically pick up a book magazine, newspaper, comic, or other printed material simply for the pleasure of opening h...

Phono-Graphix

Never assume that there could not possibly be a new way to teach reading. In 1993 parents and educators Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness of the non-profit “R...

Shared Reading

The Setting: You’re in a room with two or more children of roughly the same ages. The Action: You take one child aside and begin to read a book to him or h...

Sight Word Recognition

As you’re sitting here reading this article, chances are that you aren’t thinking for long about each individual word. You’re simply recognizing the wo...

Synthetic Phonics

Though you’ve probably heard of the phonics method of teaching children and adults to read, you may not be familiar with what “synthetic phonics” (as o...

Using Technology to Help Kids Read

For millennia, kids (and adults) have learned to read under many circumstances and without any help from technological devices. However, in our technology-dr...

Whole Language Reading

Who says teaching kids to read is controversy-free? Currently, there is a raging (and growing) debate among linguists, politicians and educators between two...