Amid the CCSS “shifts,” let’s not lose sight of independent reading practice

March 27, 2014

Categories: Assessment, Reading | Products: Accelerated Reader

Earlier this month, our Chief Academic Officer Gene Kerns wrote about text complexity and the Common Core State Standards. His comments remind us that even with all the attention on the “shifts” demanded by new standards, we [...]

New approaches in supporting struggling readers

March 13, 2014

Categories: Reading

In his work, Understanding Common Core State Standards, John Kendall cautions that under Common Core “it’s likely that [we] will have something new to learn and something to unlearn” (Kendall, 2011, page 43). This idea applies in the area of [...]

Catch kids before they fall

February 27, 2014

Categories: Reading

I believe that education is the only way to social justice. That belief led me to an undergraduate degree in elementary education and a master’s in curriculum and instruction, with a reading specialist emphasis. Since those days at the University [...]

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