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Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County,… Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County, West Virginia Updated 10/29/2024 to reflect Mingo County's 2024 state assessment results for 3rd grade reading proficiency. As the Zoom call connects, third grade teacher Jennifer Sparks and second grade teacher Stephanie Fabin sit side-by-side in Stephanie's…
March 15, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20… Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20 Years In Mary Albers, Educational Consultant for Fast ForWord® at Smoky Hill Education Service Center in Salina, Kansas, has been using the language and reading program Fast ForWord for 20 years. And she has no intention of stopping.  …
October 16, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
How Fast ForWord Helps English Learners Build… How Fast ForWord Helps English Learners Build Literacy As a literacy teacher, you’re basically a superhero.  Helping students develop strong listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills may be rewarding, but it is also no small task. And chances are, you’re not just teaching…
August 10, 2023 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
6 Features of the Best Game-Based Learning… 6 Features of the Best Game-Based Learning Programs So, you’ve decided to incorporate game-based learning into your classroom schedule. That’s a great choice, but holy smokes, there’s a lot to choose from out there!  You might be considering computer-based, card, or board games—but…
July 12, 2023 Karen Sloan Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsTeaching Strategies
5 Ways Game-Based Learning Fosters Student Success 5 Ways Game-Based Learning Fosters Student Success Countless variables affect a student’s success in the classroom—and as educators, we know that it’s impossible to account for all of them.  But what if we can address a good handful of these student success…
June 27, 2023 Karen Sloan Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGSTEM
K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in… K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in STAR Early Literacy Scores McKinley Elementary School is a small, diverse school nestled in the heart of The Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. Doug Rich, a literacy specialist and educator of 27 years, works with K-5 students with dyslexia…
June 12, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its… This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its Own Reward When Missy Coffey started working as a reading interventionist at Farmingdale Elementary School in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, in 2019, she had never heard of Fast ForWord®. But her school had been using the adaptive language…
June 09, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
How Fast ForWord Helps Students With Dyslexia… How Fast ForWord Helps Students With Dyslexia Learn to Read When I was an educational diagnostician, most of the students I tested had difficulty with reading.  But one student, in particular, stands out.  He had the highest IQ of any student I tested during those…
April 05, 2023 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language Arts
Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club When it comes to motivating students to keep on truckin’ even when the work gets challenging, we’ve seen teachers go the extra mile…or ten! Pizza parties, doughnut breaks, gift cards.  Special assemblies, bulletin boards, and t-shirts.…
April 01, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language Arts
Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage… Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage Brains Learn Best Maybe it’s nerdy, but we love brains.  Especially squishy, mile-a-minute, highly-malleable adolescent brains. They’re swimming in potential, managing warring impulses, and working so hard to connect all the new information they take in daily.    …
February 17, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under:
Success Spotlight: The Summer That Changed a… Success Spotlight: The Summer That Changed a Struggling Reader’s Life Growing up in Ville Platte, Louisiana, in the ‘90s, Justin Comeaux was the friendly kid down the street who loved baseball, music, and his little sister.  But school was hard for him.   While it would…
February 06, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie Learning
Want to Build Strong Literacy? Get Out… Want to Build Strong Literacy? Get Out the MAPS! Ready to dive into how literacy and cognitive skills work hand-in-hand?  As I discussed in a previous post, strong reading relies on the five pillars of phonemic awareness, vocabulary, phonics, comprehension, and fluency. But as…
November 10, 2022 Cory Armes, M.Ed. Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceThe State of Education
5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every… 5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every Day Do students write every day in your classroom?  If not, you’re not alone. Research on writing frequency suggests that just a quarter of middle and high school students write for at least 30 minutes a…
April 14, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceTeaching Strategies
Boost Executive Functions to Foster Learning Gains Boost Executive Functions to Foster Learning Gains No matter what grade or subject you teach, your students need strong executive function skills to learn effectively. Now more than ever, the science of learning is proving how extensively executive functions impact academic skill-building,…
April 13, 2022 Carnegie Learning Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceTeaching Strategies
How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy… How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy When It Comes to Reading I have a confession to make. When I think about reading, I don’t think of it as a strand within English language arts. I think of it as the academic equivalent of breathing—an essential life…
August 19, 2021 Logan De Ley Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
Tackle Learning Loss with the Science of… Tackle Learning Loss with the Science of Reading How will you determine the best education technology to invest in with your portion of funding from the American Rescue Plan?  Effective learning recovery plans must include evidence-based, research-proven education technology powered by the science…
March 22, 2021 Martha Burns, Amy Takabori Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
How to Build Confidence and Other SEL… How to Build Confidence and Other SEL Skills in Adolescent Readers When students struggle with reading, their confidence drops as they fall behind their peers. By the time they're adolescents, they may feel socially and emotionally isolated. Thus commences a domino effect of a lack of…
July 13, 2020 Karen Sloan Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearch