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    The Role of Reading Fluency

    The Role of Reading Fluency

    While the Science of Reading identifies reading fluency as an essential skill, it is often neglected due to the overemphasis of phonemic awareness, phonics, and morphology. Some students who have...

    The Role of Reading Fluency

    While the Science of Reading identifies reading fluency as an essential skill, it is often neglected due to the overemphasis of phonemic awareness, phonics, and morphology. Some students who have...

    School Turnaround: High school in Jamaica celebrates success.

    School Turnaround: High school in Jamaica celeb...

    Denham Town High School in Kingston, Jamaica recently shared the successful results of a collaborative, year-long effort that sought to transform their desperately challenged inner-city school. In 2021, the school...

    School Turnaround: High school in Jamaica celeb...

    Denham Town High School in Kingston, Jamaica recently shared the successful results of a collaborative, year-long effort that sought to transform their desperately challenged inner-city school. In 2021, the school...

    Maine Students Make Great Gains

    Maine Students Make Great Gains

    During the 2022-23 school year, secondary students at Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75) received Seeing Stars instruction to develop symbol imagery for phonological and orthographic processing. 

    Maine Students Make Great Gains

    During the 2022-23 school year, secondary students at Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75) received Seeing Stars instruction to develop symbol imagery for phonological and orthographic processing. 

    Building a 'Can-Do' Attitude with Seeing Stars!

    Building a 'Can-Do' Attitude with Seeing Stars!

    I don't think I can stress enough how much reading affects students’ confidence.  I've seen first graders go from being reserved, almost afraid to read, too excited to read.   In...

    Building a 'Can-Do' Attitude with Seeing Stars!

    I don't think I can stress enough how much reading affects students’ confidence.  I've seen first graders go from being reserved, almost afraid to read, too excited to read.   In...

    Making the most of summer learning: Building student performance and teacher expertise

    Making the most of summer learning: Building st...

    In a recent Lindamood-Bell Webinar, school leaders shared how their districts have used summer school to not only close the learning gap for some of their most vulnerable students, but...

    Making the most of summer learning: Building st...

    In a recent Lindamood-Bell Webinar, school leaders shared how their districts have used summer school to not only close the learning gap for some of their most vulnerable students, but...

    Accelerating student learning for struggling readers

    Accelerating student learning for struggling re...

    Amanda Wilson, Dyslexia Interventionist at Beard Elementary, works with 3rd and 4th grade students. How did Ft. Smith Public Schools in Arkansas fare during a pandemic-related school year? For its...

    Accelerating student learning for struggling re...

    Amanda Wilson, Dyslexia Interventionist at Beard Elementary, works with 3rd and 4th grade students. How did Ft. Smith Public Schools in Arkansas fare during a pandemic-related school year? For its...

    Arizona Addresses K-3 Literacy Needs Based on the Science of Reading

    Arizona Addresses K-3 Literacy Needs Based on t...

    The Seeing Stars®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, and LiPS® programs are now approved interventions for the Arizona Department of Education Move On When Reading (MOWR) program. Arizona’s MOWR policy is designed...

    Arizona Addresses K-3 Literacy Needs Based on t...

    The Seeing Stars®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, and LiPS® programs are now approved interventions for the Arizona Department of Education Move On When Reading (MOWR) program. Arizona’s MOWR policy is designed...

    Teaching in a Virtual Environment

    Teaching in a Virtual Environment

    Shared by Dorit Battaglia, First Grade Teacher, Central Union School District in California. My students are excited to become better readers even though we are distance learning! I am able...

    Teaching in a Virtual Environment

    Shared by Dorit Battaglia, First Grade Teacher, Central Union School District in California. My students are excited to become better readers even though we are distance learning! I am able...

    Visualizing and Verbalizing®  and Seeing Stars® Programs Re-Endorsed by Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE)

    Visualizing and Verbalizing® and Seeing Stars®...

    The Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) has officially re-endorsed Gander Publishing’s Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® and Seeing Stars® programs.  CASE is an international professional...

    Visualizing and Verbalizing® and Seeing Stars®...

    The Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) has officially re-endorsed Gander Publishing’s Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® and Seeing Stars® programs.  CASE is an international professional...

    Intensive Summer Literacy Program Creates Reading Rock Stars

    Intensive Summer Literacy Program Creates Readi...

    “Eager and enlightened” was how one Jamaican student felt after receiving instruction from teachers trained in the Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V)® and Seeing Stars® programs. Over the past three years,...

    Intensive Summer Literacy Program Creates Readi...

    “Eager and enlightened” was how one Jamaican student felt after receiving instruction from teachers trained in the Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V)® and Seeing Stars® programs. Over the past three years,...

    How One District is Comprehensively Increasing Reading Achievement for Students with Dyslexia

    How One District is Comprehensively Increasing ...

    Fort Smith Public School District, in Arkansas, turned a state dyslexia mandate into an opportunity to fundamentally restructure how reading instruction was provided across their entire district. In 2017, school...

    How One District is Comprehensively Increasing ...

    Fort Smith Public School District, in Arkansas, turned a state dyslexia mandate into an opportunity to fundamentally restructure how reading instruction was provided across their entire district. In 2017, school...

    Colorado Reading To Ensure Academic Development Act (Colorado READ Act) Endorsement

    Colorado Reading To Ensure Academic Development...

    Lindamood-Bell is approved by the Colorado Department of Education as a Professional Development provider for Colorado's new READ Act. Additionally, the Visualizing and Verbalizing®, Seeing Stars®, LiPS®, and Talkies® programs were...

    Colorado Reading To Ensure Academic Development...

    Lindamood-Bell is approved by the Colorado Department of Education as a Professional Development provider for Colorado's new READ Act. Additionally, the Visualizing and Verbalizing®, Seeing Stars®, LiPS®, and Talkies® programs were...