Russ on Reading

Sylvia Ashton-Warner's book, Teacher, first published in 1963, is a chronicle of her experience teaching Maori children in her native Ne...

In a post two weeks ago,  Independent Reading in a Pandemic , I suggested that with all the problems the pandemic was causing, one positive ...

When I was six years old, I was given my very first "big boy" two wheel bicycle for Christamas. I loved it. I can still see it all...

We need to get books into our student's homes and hands. This tweet from the estimable Jennifer Serravallo appeared on my feed this morn...

Today, July 6, 2020, marks the 6th annual National Give-A-Kid-A-Book-Day. This is the yearly celebration dedicated to getting books in...

In order to help a child become better at reading, a teacher needs to have a handle on what the child knows and is able to do. All lea...

The best predictor of how well children will read is the amount of time they spend reading. This time spent reading must be engaged read...

This is the fourth in a series on instruction for vulnerable readers that is a companion to my series on Why Johnny Can't Read. Other ...

Previous posts in this series on quality instruction for vulnerable readers have addressed word work and spelling . this post will addre...

Today I continue with my series on the vulnerable reader gathering posts from the past to look at instruction for our neediest readers. M...

Last week's post addressed one aspect of the question Why Johnny Can't Read, the issue of quality of instruction. Quality instru...

In order to be highly successful literacy instruction must be informed, balanced, and responsive. To the extent that literacy instructio...

I grew up 70 years ago in a lower-middle class suburb, with a bunch of other lower middle class kids. When I was a school aged child, I ...

The 4th in a series on vulnerable readers Some children's brains have difficulty processing written words and text. Such childre...