In my experience with struggling readers, successful parent conferences are important because these meetings are often the only time you will ever encounter the parents of your students.

A colleague and I decided that there were good and not-so-good elements to the Direct Instruction technique.

Although most teachers primarily rely on simple recall, Richard Arlington has concluded that these six comprehension strategies are the most effective for students who need help understanding what they read.

If you want to teach preschoolers the letters of the alphabet, use lower case first. Most of what we read is lower case.