Category: Strategies

How does slow processing speed impact reading skills?

keepreadingandlearning, January 24, 2024July 2, 2024

Skillful reading requires many cognitive processes. A weakness in cognitive skills such as processing speed,…

keepreadingandlearning, January 10, 2024December 17, 2023

Do you have ELs in your classroom who struggle to achieve at the same rate…

keepreadingandlearning, December 19, 2023October 28, 2024

Do you have English Learners (ELs) in your classroom who struggle to achieve at the…

keepreadingandlearning, November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

Of the five components of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary), vocabulary…

keepreadingandlearning, August 23, 2023September 6, 2023

A question that teachers sometimes wonder is: should we explicitly teach spelling or are spelling…

keepreadingandlearning, July 25, 2023July 31, 2023

Do you have students who make guesses based on initial letter sounds instead of sounding…

keepreadingandlearning, July 11, 2023August 1, 2023

Do your students struggle with sentence writing? Do they tend to compose fragments and run-ons,…

keepreadingandlearning, June 24, 2023August 1, 2023

Does your reading program require you to teach “sight words,” “heart words,” “trick words,” “red…

keepreadingandlearning, June 12, 2023October 2, 2024

Phonological awareness and rapid naming are two skills that are often weak in struggling readers,…

keepreadingandlearning, May 21, 2023April 30, 2024

For struggling readers, whether they are identified with a learning disability or not, the process…