Vikki Miller

A new report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center provides new insight into young children’s (ages 2-10) use of educational media at home. For the purposes of this study, educational media is identified as content that “is good for your child’s learning or growth, or that teaches some type of lesson, such as an academic or social skill.” There … Read more

The Simple View of Reading | Reading Rockets The link above will take you to an introduction to the Simple View of Reading. The Simple View of Reading is a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension. Research studies show that a student’s reading … Read more

Print Awareness | Reading Rockets The link above provides strategies, resources and videos for parents and teachers so they can begin to help their child develop the very important concept of a “word” — that meaning is conveyed through words; that printed words are separated by spaces; and that some words in print look longer … Read more

https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies will take you to a library that provides teachers with effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. Each strategy in the library includes: Instructions on how to use the strategy Classroom video  Downloadable templates Examples Recommended children’s books to use with … Read more