So, you may be ready to ditch your basal reader and transition to the workshop model. Or maybe you love your basal but want to get more out of it. Either way, here are 5 ways to make your basal reader ...

Basal readers rely more on analysis and documentation and less on students ... For example, the brand new Reading Street teacher editions guide teachers through the reading of each ...

In Lynn Drew`s 2nd-grade classroom at Crow Island School in Winnetka, children learn to read by learning to write. Critics call it putting the cart before the horse. Proponents, such as Drew, call … ...

Today’s basic reading anthology textbooks — so-called basal readers — lack those selections. To meet Common Core demands, they’re instead glutted with 21st-century informational texts.

In his April 26, 2006, Commentary ("Reading-Comprehension Skills? What Are They Really?"), E.D. Hirsch Jr. contends that to improve comprehension, educators should focus on building students ...

This story right here, "The Secret Life of Trees," is an example of informational text. JOHN MERROW: Basal readers go back to the "McGuffey Reader" that was introduced in 1836.