Teaching is an act of practical reasoning, persuasiveness, problem solving, and communication. It needs to be shaped by science but much of it is improvisation rooted in experience.

Learn along with Early Start students at Jubilee Housing in Washington, DC, as they get to know all about bugs and begin to appreciate insects for the many things they do for us — and for their uniqueness and the diversity they bring.

I thought that reading researchers had the answers that teachers needed. Now I see that teachers have the questions and knowledge of the real-world that reading researchers need to be of service to society.

Are your Spidey senses tingling? In this case, it’s nothing to fear but rather to cheer! Though Daka Hermon is the author of middle grade horror titles Hide and Seeker and Nightmare King, she’s here with ideas to get kids thinking about all the amazing insect qualities of their favorite superheroes — something that as a writer for Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends on Disney Junior and the author of National Geographic Readers: Marvel’s Spider-Man Bugs Out!, she knows a lot about.

Find answers to 14 commonly asked questions about teaching reading fluency, including the amount of fluency instruction, the benefits of paired reading, and choosing texts for fluency practice. 

London-based animator, author, and illustrator Frank Weber originally hails from South Africa, which inspires his works of sly humor, including More Dung! A Beetle Story and The Top Spot. Here Frank shares bug stories of his own childhood to help get kids wondering about insects around the world and drawing a few of their own.