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Where can teachers find authoritative and research-based resources to support their practice when they have questions about teaching students with autism?

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Autism Spectrum Disorder, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, Special Education

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Cathy Pratt

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Where can teachers or parents go to find reliable help with assistive technology?

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Assistive Technology

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Christopher Lee

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Where Does Content Fit In Literacy Learning? Learning to Dance and Talk at the Same Time

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Where does lip gloss = reading? In Book Clubs.

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Where Questioning Fits in Comprehension Instruction: Skills and Strategies

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Where Is the Music in Your Life?

illustration of young girl struggling with reading and writing

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Why Are So Many Children Having Difficulties?

A child’s background and prior experiences can contribute to increased risk of reading problems. However, the are four factors that hinder reading development regardless of a child’s background. Find out what they are in this brief overview.

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Why Aren’t American Reading Scores Higher?

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Why can’t my child re-read a word in a sentence that she just sounded out?

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Children’s Books, Phonics and Decoding, Struggling Readers

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Reading Rockets

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Why is cognitive science so pertinent to today’s educational climate?

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Reading and the Brain, Curriculum and Instruction, School-Wide Efforts

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Daniel Willingham

Diverse group of kids learning about bees and honey in elementary classroom

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Why doesn’t increasing knowledge improve reading achievement?

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Why Don’t You Encourage Reading Practice?

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Why I Encourage Teaching Children to Read Disfluently

Why Everyone Benefits from Including Students with Autism in Literacy Classrooms

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Why Everyone Benefits from Including Autistic Students in Literacy Classrooms

In addition to the unique gifts and interests that autistic students bring to the classroom as people, their responses can serve as an early warning system for pedagogical problems that are happening in the classroom as a whole.

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Why field trips are worth the effort

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Why folk and fairy tales?

Mother and daughter painting an environmental mural together

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Why getting out matters

Young girl in striped short reading a book next to a cat

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Why Is It So Hard to Improve Reading Achievement?

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Why Have Teachers Been Left Unprepared to Teach Reading?

Teaching reading is a complex process that draws upon an extensive knowledge base and repertoire of strategies. This article argues that many novice teachers are underprepared to teach reading effectively, and examines some of the reasons why.