by Jan and Kari | Oct 14, 2023 | Blog, General, Literacy Leadership
Over the past two years, we’ve been touched and humbled by your overwhelming response to our first Shifting the Balance book, which we wrote to support those of you who work with beginning readers. After it was published, we quickly realized that educators were also...
by Jan and Kari | Sep 16, 2023 | Blog, General, Literacy Leadership
With Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom about to be released, you might be wondering how this second Shifting the Balance book came to be. Well, there’s a story there that Jan, Kari, and I thought was...
by Jan and Kari | Aug 26, 2023 | Blog, Fluency, Knowledge Building, Literacy Leadership, Strategy Instruction, Vocabulary, Word Reading Instruction
While it’s true that most of the conversation about literacy practices these days seems to focus on the earliest grades, there is plenty of confusion and uncertainty about literacy instruction for older students, too. In Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the...
by Jan and Kari | Aug 13, 2023 | Blog, Phonics, Prompting & Feedback, Word Reading Instruction
We are glad you are here for this bonus blog as we reach the end (really!) of our six-part (turned seven-part) series on the ways that familiar prompts may or may not be good for students in the long run. As it turns out, some of the familiar prompts that we have...
by Jan and Kari | Aug 4, 2023 | Blog, Literacy Leadership, Phonics, Prompting & Feedback, Word Reading Instruction
Over the last several weeks, we have taken a close look at some familiar prompts–along with their Beanie Baby mascots–that are often used in an attempt to support students when they are stuck on a word. Our journey through these common prompts has been...
