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Learning Loss Guide for Educators, Caregivers, and Community Leaders
Read more: Learning Loss Guide for Educators, Caregivers, and Community LeadersEducators need fresh ideas, tools, and resources, as well as innovative ways to combat learning loss and, more specifically, reading loss. This guide is for educators, school district administrators, families, and community leaders, delving into how to define learning loss in relation to reading loss, what experts believe causes it, its impact on individuals and…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 6: Motivation and Engagement
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 6: Motivation and EngagementWithout student motivation and engagement, everything fails Before we reveal the special significance of student motivation and engagement, let’s look back and connect with the influences we previously explored. While it’s not essential to read all the articles before this one, you may find it gives both a more comprehensive picture and a more detailed…
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Enter Now to Win 25 Children’s Books for Your Classroom!
Read more: Enter Now to Win 25 Children’s Books for Your Classroom!Attention Curriculum Directors, Teachers, Literacy Coaches, and Reading Specialists at elementary schools across the United States! We're excited to present Kids Read Now's "March to Childhood Literacy Book Bag Giveaway," designed with you in mind. Join us in celebrating National Reading Month by entering for a chance to win one of five sets of book…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 5: Caregiver Support
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 5: Caregiver SupportLiteracy Leaders: Welcome to the fifth article in our six-part series on Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size. In this installment, you are challenged to think about your school or schools from the angle of parent or caregiver support and the effect that has on your students’ reading progress. What’s eye-opening is just how…
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Study Finds Significant Summer Reading Improvements for K-5 Students through a Summer Reading Program
Read more: Study Finds Significant Summer Reading Improvements for K-5 Students through a Summer Reading ProgramThe KRN program mailed self-selected books home coupled with hi-dosage parent engagement, according to the best practices proven by Science of Reading methodologies. The study further highlighted the cost-efficiency and broader reach of KRN’s summer reading program, which serves every student in grades K-5 at a cost of less than $55 per child. These results correlate to a previous…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 4: Independent Reading Practice
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 4: Independent Reading PracticeMaking a habit out of reading practice can be the key to proficiency Literacy Leaders: This is part 4 of a 6 part series on accelerating reading progress using Dr. John Hattie’s Visible Learning principles. Part 1 provides an overview of high effect sizes. Next, Part 2 focuses on comprehension influences. Then, Part 3 focuses…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 3: Fluency Influences
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 3: Fluency InfluencesDon’t leave fluency behind — it matters more than you think Congrats, literacy leaders! You’ve officially made it halfway through the Latest in Literacy blog’s series on high-impact influences that accelerate reading. You’re just in time, no doubt, to tweak your schools’ trajectories before spring benchmarking and EOY assessments. In our previous article, you zoomed…
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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 2: Comprehension Influences
Read more: Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 2: Comprehension InfluencesRacing toward assessments, literacy leaders can strategically accelerate reading — now! In our previous article, we dipped into the deep well of research studied by John Hattie in his groundbreaking meta-analyses, called Visible Learning. Today, you’ll dive deeper into one of the most important aspects of successful literacy. In fact, it might be the most…
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Brakes Off After Winter Break: High Effect Sizes Accelerate Reading – Part 1 of 6
Read more: Brakes Off After Winter Break: High Effect Sizes Accelerate Reading – Part 1 of 6After hitting the winter brakes, now it’s time to accelerate reading. When you signed off after reading our final blog article last year, we hope you felt empowered, informed, and ready for some well-deserved R&R. And if you felt exhausted, overwhelmed, and ready for a long winter’s nap, that’s OK too! We totally get it.…