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Why Guided Play-based Learning in Early Literacy?

Why Guided Play-based Learning in Early Literacy?

Play-based learning is an approach to learning that maintains a child’s enjoyment of either free play or guided play while engaging with learning content.  Free play is purely initiated and driven by the student, while guided play has some degree of teacher...
Need for Professional Development in Strategic Reading Instruction

Need for Professional Development in Strategic Reading Instruction

Despite $18 billion spent each year on professional development (PD) in schools across the United States, the lack of satisfactory PD and training in the primary grades continues to be a recurrent theme in early learning. It was identified as one of the 5 major early...
Early Literacy State of Affairs. 6 Major Ways to Make a Difference.

Early Literacy State of Affairs. 6 Major Ways to Make a Difference.

Literacy rates in the US were already dropping before COVID-19, but the pandemic has definitely worsened the situation.  In Virginia for example, approximately one-third of K-2 students scored below the early literacy benchmark last fall. This is a record high in the...

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