In the early 1980s, renowned literacy expert Marie Clay introduced the concept of running records as a method for documenting a child’s reading behavior during oral reading sessions. This innovative approach has since become a cornerstone of literacy education. By…
What is the Research on Teaching Beginning Reading? Over the last 50 years, teaching beginning reading to young children has been the subject of much research and considerable controversy (i.e., “The Reading Wars”). In the late 1990s, Congress convened the…
Teachers often ask me whether beginning readers need to learn sight words to become good readers. The Purpose of School is to Learn to Read After two days of kindergarten, my young daughter arrived home from school in a huff. …
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