As artificial intelligence makes its way into more classrooms — and in light of this week’s executive order to increase AI education in K-12 schools — teachers may be looking for ways to embrace the ...

An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...

“Instruction Mode” refers to the manner in which UB provides typical classroom activities involving instructors and students, such as lectures, discussions and group engagement. Instruction Mode does ...

Harvard in 1900 had only one required course -- freshman composition -- reflecting the faculty’s belief that writing was too important a skill to be left to caprice. After all, back in 1874-- 1874! -- ...

With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.

Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

As a writing across the curriculum scholar and programmer, I’ve been talking about artificial intelligence writing tools a lot lately. I’ve heard it all, from the woes and worries of students using ...

Novice writers may struggle with conventions of academic writing, good habits and processes for developing academic essays, and/or grammar, mechanics and syntax. Through the directed self-placement ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can writing support reading instruction? In Part One, Tony Zani, Mary Tedrow, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Colleen Cruz, and Pam Allyn shared their responses. You ...

Registration for CLaRI's summer 2025 Reading & Writing Society (camp) is now closed. We still have openings in our one-to-one summer tutoring program. Summer Reading and Writing Society, CLaRI’s ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...