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To develop students’ reading proficiency and motivation to read, we need to make daily teacher read alouds, instructional and independent reading, and writing about reading the...

By Ellin Keene It’s a bright autumn morning in your elementary or middle school classroom, early in the year, so much ahead—nothing quite like those early days of promise....

Breathe in, Hold for 10, and Try These 5 Techniques that Ensure Students Do the Talking  by Laura Robb We all know the statistics and, well, we talk right over them!...

By: Jen Serravallo Last fall, about a month into the school year, a reading specialist emailed me for help with a very common problem. I wrote back to her directly but...

By Lester Laminack Enjoy, as Lester guides you from teacher-centered to student-centered teacher read alouds! When you reach the end of an article, a story, or a book do...

  By: Harvey Smokey Daniels The greatest source of tears and heartbreak in our family, over all of our child-raising years, was homework. Like by far. Like 90%. Those...

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.  For many of you, the title of this blog entry may sound a bit nonsensical — Why teach something and then not use it?  But let me ask you to think...

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D. In my previous blog posting for The Robb Review, I focused on what should be the real goal of phonics instruction – to get kids to the point where...

By: Laura Robb Most of us view stamina in reading as the ability to concentrate on reading for at least 30 minutes. And indeed, that is part of stamina! But there’s more to...

By: Jim Burke At a certain point in our lives, it becomes difficult to remember how awful (and, if we stick with it, wonderful) it can feel to learn how to do anything that...

(An open invitation of vulnerability for my phonics colleagues) ©Google Images  By Cameron Carter It’s 9:00 a.m., and I’ve just sat down with my first guided...

WANTED…Words for Readers by Laura Robb Years ago, when I asked a seventh-grade student how I could help him with reading his response, “Give me words” replayed in my...