New study reminds us to stretch struggling readers. iReady (like most Ed Tech) does the opposite. In fact, this study is germane to basically every conversation in literacy and education right now.

Freddy Hiebert, @kconradi.bsky.social, Jake Downs, and Katie Martz just published an important study showing that struggling readers grow more when they work with texts above their reading level.

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library This visual abstract illustrates how the Read Like Us (RLU) methodology employs high-challenge complex texts to generate word reading accuracy and connected text fluency gains.

“Notably, students with the lowest initial accuracy showed the greatest gains in the challenging text condition, reversing the typical Matthew effect pattern.”

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A small group of us from W&M are coming up for this. It’s a great opportunity!

Any upper elementary teachers out there who want a free and effective language-based reading curriculum are welcome to check out CLAVES (www.clavescurriculum.net).

CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.

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Looking to follow some reading scientists and some practitioners who are interested in their work? I've got you covered with this starter pack! #EduSky

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy | ILA Journal | Wiley Online Library Many adolescent readers experience difficulties comprehending informational text, which may result from underlying difficulties with foundational skills (e.g., word recognition and fluency), knowledg...

What should adolescent literacy interventions include? In this open access article, Strong and colleagues describe Read STOP Write. Focuses on multisyllabic decoding, text structure, reading, and writing. #SOR ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fluency routines are effective in middle school content areas! This study (Burns et al., 2024) found that paragraph shrinking routines in eighth grade led to increases in both fluency AND science/SS comprehension. www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...

The role of teacher–child relationships in kindergarten on children’s motivation and reading skills in grade 1 - Reading and Writing The main aim of the current study was to investigate the role of teacher–child relationship quality in kindergarten on children’s motivation (interest in reading and task persistence) and reading skil...

Do reading skills lead to increased motivation or is it the other way around? There's more to the story! This study suggests that teacher-student relationships in kindergarten influence first grade reading skills & task persistence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP)

Looking for literacy research one pagers? Here's our initial batch. Proud of the TRIP fellows and all their work! #SOR #reading education.wm.edu/centers/lite...

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