Explicit instruction is not contrary to project-based learning — they are complementary. Students do need to be engaged with authentic tasks and real-world problems, such as writing letters to elected ...

Two groups of scholars look at the same body of research and come to opposite conclusions on which are the most effective teaching strategies. One says the evidence for inquiry is weak. The other camp ...

5 Achievable and Desirable Instructional Goals for Explicit Spelling Instruction. Here are five achievable and desirable instructional goals for both regular and ESL classroom teachers who have a ...

Spelling knowledge is essential for the brain’s reading architecture. To connect the alphabet code the reader sees on the page to circuitry enabling reading comprehension, the reader must use ...