The Education Week Spotlight on What We Now Know: Literacy is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on ways students can be supported; the struggles often seen when tech intertwines with literacy and how digital reading can positively impact learners.
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Reading & Literacy
How Should Reading Be Taught in a Digital Era?
Most experts agree that even the very youngest students should be learning with a mix of print and digital texts.
Reading & Literacy
5 Ways to Remotely Support Students With Dyslexia
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the needs of students with dyslexia, but also made it more difficult to support them.
Reading & Literacy
How to Use Digital Reading Programs During COVID-19. Teachers Still Matter
There’s little evidence on how the best practices for teaching reading should be translated to remote or hybrid learning environments.
Classroom Technology
How Online Teaching Needs to Improve—Even After the Pandemic
The vast majority of teachers say they’ve gained skills in the last year that they’ll continue to use after the pandemic ends.
Classroom Technology
Teaching Reading During COVID-19: Frustrated Students, Tech Challenges
First grade teacher Claudia Margaroli talks about the difficulties of teaching reading remotely and how she is trying to adjust.
Curriculum
Opinion
E-books: Essential for Teaching Culture in Foreign Language Classrooms
How interactive e-books can engage students in foreign languages and the study of cultures.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
The Coming Literacy Crisis: There’s No Going Back to School as We Knew It
Many schools failed to properly teach reading long before the pandemic, write Comer Yates, Renée Boynton-Jarrett, and Maryanne Wolf.