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Sound Boxes: Using Elkonin Boxes to Enhance Phonemic Awareness in Early Literacy
Elkonin Sound Boxes: What They Are & How to Use Them Phonemic awareness serves as the foundation for a child's journey into the world of literacy, and...
Developing Word Power: How to Teach Morphology
In this post, we offer a simple Morphology Lesson Planning Template that provides a systematic approach to integrating morphology instruction into your...
Sight Words vs. High Frequency Words | Still Confused About the Difference? – You Aren’t Alone
Do We Really Have to Know the Difference Between Sight Words and High-Frequency Words? If you're like us, you've likely used these two terms—high-frequency...
Getting to Know the Shifting the Balance for the Upper Elementary Classroom: Q&A with the Authors – Part 2
Last week, we shared the first part of our two-part Q&A series about how the newest Shifting the Balance 3-5 book that we wrote with Katie Egan Cunningham...
Getting to Know Shifting the Balance for the Upper Elementary Classroom: Q&A with the Authors – Part 1
Q: Want to learn more about the newest Shifting the Balance book, which explores 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom?...
Don’t be Fooled by a Fake! 12 Clues that a Copy of Shifting the Balance May be a Counterfeit
We have been touched by readers’ responses to our books, including our latest title, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the...
Book Study Guides for BOTH Shifting the Balance Books NOW Available to Support Your Learning Journey
We’re really excited to share this study guide with you today, especially since so many people have been asking about it! As we were preparing to share this...
Now 12 Shifts (and 4 Pathways Through Them) to Transform Your Reading Instruction
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...
With a Teacher’s Head and a Mother’s Heart: A Shifting the Balance Upper Elementary Story (A Guest Blog Post by Katie Egan Cunningham)
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...
The Six Shifts Podcast: Episodes about the SHIFTS in the NEW 3-5 book are now LIVE!
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...
Showing Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Learning (Bonus): The Power of Teaching Readers to Try Alternate Sounds
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...
Showing Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Learning (Part 6): The Power of Teaching Students to Blend Words
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...
Showing Young Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Reading (Part 5): The Downsides of Asking Children to Search for Chunks in Words
This is the fifth part of our series exploring how some of the ways we’ve been prompting readers can actually send them on unnecessary detours - or even...
Showing Young Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Reading (Part 4): Why Skipping the Word Is Problematic
This is our fourth installment in a 6-part series about how practices for supporting readers when they are stuck on a word can either help them find their way...
Showing Young Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Reading (Part 3): Why Looking at the First Letter of the Word Isn’t Enough (even when “read” correctly)
This post is our third in a 6-part series about how you can support readers who are trying to read a word they don’t know. Deciding how to prompt readers when...
Showing Young Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Reading (Part 2): Why Looking at the Pictures Isn’t as Helpful as We Thought
In our last blog, we used a map-reading metaphor to introduce Linnea Ehri’s phases of word learning (1987, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2017). Today we take that...
Showing Young Readers How to Navigate the Phases of Word Reading (Part 1): A Journey Through Ehri’s Phases
It is summer! Perhaps you are traveling somewhere. While you probably rely on the little person inside your phone to tell you which way to go, we want you to...
Today, We Celebrate You
We think every day is the right day to celebrate the work of educators. So, for every single teacher committed to making our schools better places for kids,...
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