Why do educators stress the importance of students having a strong number sense but they do not stress that students should have a strong letter sense? Let’s talk about what number sense means. According to https://www.understood.org/en, number sense is group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. These […]
Phonics instruction and techniques are constantly changing. The pendulum swings back and forth from a whole language approach to a phonics approach. What educators often forget is what we know about student learning and phonics. It is known that reading instruction must have multiple working pieces, repeatedly the phonics component […]
If you have watched the news, read the paper, or have paid attention to anything regarding the world of education, you have heard that the number of kids who are failing to learn to read by the third grade is staggering. According to the article “Hard Words, Why Kids Aren’t […]
