Building strong readers

Starting Strong is a practical resource for preservice instructors and experienced professionals of early-development classrooms looking for ways to more effectively build foundational literacy skills. As an easy-to-navigate compilation of research-based strategies and the theoretical foundations that support them, it is designed to be adapted for various classroom settings: whole groups, small groups, play-based centers, independent practices, etc. The authors also acknowledge an imperative to provide resources especially for instructors of struggling readers and of children living in poverty, and Starting Strong’s utility certainly extends to providing strategies for instructors of multilingual classrooms.  READ MORE