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In our October newsletter, we featured an article by Mike Schmoker and Tim Shanahan called Small-Group Reading Instruction is Not as Effective as You Think. While I hold both Schmoker and Shanahan in high regard, I want to emphasize that, when implemented properly, small-group reading instruction ca...
A new book by Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, was published this month by Brookes Publishing titled Essentials of Adolescent Literacy: Integrating Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Instruction in Grades 5-12. At the same time, Keys to Literacy launched a companion professional learning course by the author titled Keys to Adolescent Literacy. This ...
Our partnership with Davis County School District in Farmington, Utah began in the 2022–23 school year. Davis County School District is the second largest in Utah, serving approximately 78,000 students outside of Salt Lake City.
Initially, our work involved offering leadership institutes to all elementary principals, establishing three laboratory schools, and collabora...
This month’s post marks over ten years of my writing monthly blog posts for Literacy Lines, Keys to Literacy’s blog. Back in September 2014, I decided that blogging would be an effective way to share information about literacy and offer practical suggestions for teaching reading and writing—making these resources widely available to ed...
Executive functions are the mental processes that students and adults use to manage tasks and achieve goals. These include goal setting, organization, cognitive flexibility, working memory, self-monitoring, attention, and inhibition. Executive functions play an important role in supporting proficient reading and writing across all grades. By grade 5, however, students’ succes...
