Research, Practice & Perspective
Everything we’ve written about teaching reading, inspired by the questions that keep coming up in classrooms, in coaching conversations, and in our inbox.
Literacy LeadershipGet to know Shifting the Balance 3–5 through a conversation with its authors about bringing reading research into the upper elementary classroom.
Literacy LeadershipLearn twelve clues that can help you recognize a counterfeit copy of Shifting the Balance and check the book you’ve purchased.
Literacy LeadershipFind study guides for both Shifting the Balance books, with support for reflecting on the reading and learning alongside colleagues.
Literacy LeadershipExplore four pathways through the two Shifting the Balance books to find a starting point that fits your students’ needs and your…
Literacy LeadershipDr. Katie Egan Cunningham shares a personal perspective on Shifting the Balance 3–5, bringing her experiences as an educator and a mother to…
Literacy LeadershipListen to conversations about the six shifts in Shifting the Balance 3–5 and consider what they mean for instruction in upper elementary…
Prompting & FeedbackExplore how prompting readers to try an alternate sound can support flexible decoding when their first attempt at a word doesn’t make…
Prompting & FeedbackExplore how to prompt beginning readers to blend through words, using sound-spelling information from beginning to end to support decoding.
Prompting & FeedbackReconsider prompts that ask beginning readers to search for familiar chunks, and explore how those prompts fit with students’ developing word-reading skills.
Prompting & FeedbackExamine what happens when we teach readers to skip unfamiliar words, and how to keep their attention on the information needed to…
Prompting & FeedbackExplore why looking at the first letter isn’t enough, even when a reader guesses correctly, and how prompting can support attention to…
Prompting & FeedbackReconsider asking readers to use pictures to identify unfamiliar words, with attention to the word-learning processes that support increasingly independent reading.
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