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February 2020 | Volume 77 | Number 5

Rooted in Reading


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Feature Articles

Reader's Guide / The Heart of Reading Instruction

Sarah McKibben

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Drawing on Reading Science Without Starting a War

Benjamin Riley

Research has revealed key truths about how children learn to read. Can we apply these findings in classrooms without reigniting the "Reading Wars"?

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A District Leader's Education in Early Reading

Jared Myracle

Why I decided our district needed to change course.

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How I Learned to Teach Reading

Jéri Ogden

One teacher's journey to overcoming instructional confusion.

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The Promise of Slow Reading

Christy Wessel-Powell, Beth A. Buchholz, Julie Rust, Nicholas E. Husbye and Sarah Vander Zanden

In a culture of busyness, schools have a responsibility to cultivate intentionally present, immersive reading.

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Making Reading Workshop Work

Sonja Cherry-Paul, Colleen Cruz and Mary Ehrenworth

When crafted with attention and insight, reading workshop can build students' capacity and engagement as readers.

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Radical Reset: The Case for Minimalist Literacy Standards

Mike Schmoker

Pared down standards with an emphasis on lots of reading and writing are the cure to the Common Core.

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For Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Is Power

Kyle Redford

To read critically, students need both literacy skills and content knowledge—so let's deliver both simultaneously.

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Freedom for Literacy

Kimberly N. Parker

Schools need to give black students opportunities to cultivate their own strong reading identities.

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Planning Effective Reading Instruction When You're Up to Your Neck in 6-Year-Olds

Timothy Shanahan

To help students make strides as readers, educators need to reconsider how they schedule and focus instruction.

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Leadership for Literacy

Rachael Gabriel

Three questions school leaders should ask every day to optimize literacy instruction.

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Conversations in the Margins

Callie Ryan Brimberry

Conversing within and about a text creates a powerful connection for students, especially when you have the right book.

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Let Them Read, Please

Penny Kittle

What it takes to build a culture of reading in secondary schools.

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Columns / Departments

Research Matters / Cracking the Reading Code

Bryan Goodwin

The science of reading instruction is clear. Let's listen to the research.

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Show & Tell: A Video Column / Using Language to Learn

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Transferable literacy skills can help students across content areas. Watch the video.

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Leading Together / Working Together, Reading Together

Jill Harrison Berg

We must create a culture of professional reading among faculty.

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Confronting Inequity / Fighting the Jeffersonian Dismissal

Matthew R. Kay

A founding father's views on race challenge educators to respond.

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One to Grow On / Invitations to Read

Carol Ann Tomlinson

For reading, especially, one-size-fits-all fits no one.

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Whole Child Spotlight: On Reading

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Readers React

Reader responses to recent issues of EL.

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ASCD Community in Action

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Educational Leadership Themes for 2020–2021

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EL Takeaways / Reading "Roars"

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Index to Advertisers

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Advisory: Trends and Ideas

Turn & Talk / LeVar Burton on Literacy as the Key to Freedom

An interview with the actor, producer, and world-recognized advocate of children's literacy, sharing his thoughts on diverse books, the best platforms to reach kids about reading, and his upcoming keynote address at ASCD's Empower 2020 Conference.

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Research Alert / Phonetically Sound Teaching

Findings from the ILA research brief, "Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction," and from the 2019 statement by Lucy Calkins, "No One Gets to Own the Term 'The Science of Reading.'"

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Relevant Read / A Neuroscientist on What Children Need So They Can Read

A review of the 2019 book, Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It, by Mark Seidenberg.

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Snapshot / Go Dog, Go!

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Numbers of Note / Where Have All the Readers Gone?

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Seen on the Screen / Books Are Meant to Be Savored

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The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading Comprehension

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

A three-pronged framework can help students not only learn the meaning of texts, but also gain motivation and purpose from them.

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Engaging Middle School Readers with Access and Choice

Chad C. Everett and Donalyn Miller

Ensuring students have access to high-interest books—and support to read them—is an issue of equity.

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For the Love of Books

Carol Jago

How to get teens to put down their phones and pick up a book.

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Tell Us About

Educators reflect on strategies they use to engage struggling readers.

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