The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...
JENNY Priestley was a primary school teacher for two decades. In September 2022, the mum-of-two wanted to take her boys to school and pick them up each day, and attend some of their activities.
Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific outcome (e.g., heart disease, reading proficiency). For ...
Reading doesn’t just happen. It’s a skill that has to be learned, which means it has to be taught. And since reading is foundational to success in just about every ...