Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text. The Teams ...
As a society, we have become consumed by standardized tests. When I was growing up, high school was my first exposure to the famous scantron sheet. I was so particular about precisely filling in those ...
Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...
North Carolina students are rebounding from the pandemic but have not yet fully recovered academically. We need to work hard this year to accelerate student learning to get back to pre-COVID ...
A new examination of national assessment data suggests that students need more practice building reading fluency and more explicit instruction in comprehension strategies. Students who can read text ...
Microsoft Teams has introduced Reading Progress app, a free tool that enables students to read aloud, record themselves. Teachers can review recorded clips and track student's progress. The app can be ...
Fluency and Comprehension Are Not Synonymous Our education system is frequently too focused on the fluency of a student’s reading. If a child can read passages in front of the class with little to no ...