Videos

Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator Michaela Goade reflects on the ways that her family and community supported her explorations of artwork as a child and how she was drawn to the same themes that inspire her today. Ms. Goade is an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

Tracey introduces us to the jumbies and talks about their role in her life growing up.

Tracey reflects that writing about the Caribbean is a way to be closer to a place she loves.

Tracey Baptiste talks about the Caribbean literature she read growing up in Trinidad.

Holly Lane, the Director of the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) and an associate professor of special education, provides a brief overview of the science of reading and the different bodies of research that contribute to it.

In this overview from Calgary Reads, learn about the two key segments of Scarborough’s Reading Rope: Word recognition and language comprehension. By building on these two strands, we can create a rope to bridge the gap between reading well and struggling to read.

Reading is not hard-wired in the brain. Learn more about the neural pathways involved that must be developed through effective instruction.

This model illustrates that as decoding subskills become increasingly automatic and language comprehension subskills become increasingly strategic, skilled reading occurs.

At Prather-Brown Center in Frederick, Oklahoma, teacher Monica Peevyhouse helps her students practice writing letters through sound-letter dictation.

Monique Ealey demonstrates the Quiet Yell, a fun and engaging strategy that helps students practice segmenting and counting syllables in words. Ms. Ealey is a former teacher and current director of education and programs at the Mississippi Children’s Museum.