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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 6: Motivation and Engagement

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Without 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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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 5: Caregiver Support

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Literacy 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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Accelerating Reading Progress with High Effect Size – Part 4: Independent Reading Practice

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Making 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

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Don’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

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Racing 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

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After 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.

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Teaching Students to L.O.V.E. Literacy

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Opportunities to sharpen our literacy skills are all around us. Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons (lack of support/resources at home, irrelevant curriculum, etc.) students can often be disengaged with literacy learning early in life. Once that foundation is shaken, it is tough to rebuild and instill the skills, confidence, and attitude necessary to

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