Educator's view: When literacy instruction begins and ends with phonics, students are left without the skills to comprehend complex texts, writes Matt Bardin buff.ly/3gqvj8o

Great to see one state addressing teen's lack of phonics! nytimes.com/2022/12/25/us/… Sadly, this accomplishes little without building conscious reading skills on top of it: the74million.org/article/educat…

Close reading - reading with deliberate attention to purpose, audience, language, and tone - is a skill crucial to success in advanced courses, college, and career. Take a look at #SpringBoard's Close Reading Workshops youtu.be/hjE_7tIIqYc

Zinc Learning Labs Labs, an online platform free to #SpringBoard users, offers a large selection of supplemental texts specifically chosen to use with #SpringBoard ELA. We've heard so many cool ways teachers are incorporating Zinc into their instructions. Please keep sharing with us!

The Zinc Close Reading Experience: coming soon to a classroom near you (let us know if you’d like to be part of the pilot program! [email protected]) zinclearninglabs.com/close-reading-…

Looking for new tools to strengthen literacy and prep for spring exams? Try these interactive, student-led, close reading video lessons from Zinc Learning Labs bit.ly/2DsVxyY #edtech #personalizedlearning

Did you know that the key to improving adolescent literacy is increasing students’ vocabulary? Try an Zinc Learning Labs vocab game to see how you can make vocab instruction effective and fun! bit.ly/2CBRPFn #edtech #ela

"The school’s mascot was a Confederate colonel.” Dr. William Lynn Weaver shares his story of joining the football team as a black student at a formerly all-white high school StoryCorps storycorps.org/listen/william… #Zincreads

Have you tried our Close Reading Experience yet? We’ve built an interactive literacy game that uses commonly taught texts to teach close reading skills. Get in touch if you’d like to demo! zinclearninglabs.com/close-reading-…

Gitanjali Rao, an 11-year-old-girl, was appalled by the Flint water crisis and ineffective lead-detection tools. So she invented her own: npr.org/sections/thetw… #Zincreads

Zinc users can now try the beta version of our Close Reading Experience, an interactive literacy game that uses commonly taught texts to teach close reading skills. Get in touch if you want to demo! #edtech #literacy zinclearninglabs.com/close-reading-…

Dear Zinc, Vol. 1 mattbardin.com/2018/02/21/dea…

Dear Zinc, Volume 2. mattbardin.com/2018/03/01/dea…

Great tips for using technology to enrich classroom learning, support independent reading, and differentiate SXSW EDU Zinc Learning Labs Auditi Chakravarty

I hope to become a less truculent, punctilious trainer. My facilitator moves should be pellucid for participants this weekend. Paul De Maret will exhibit hegemony in our Pod and his energy will never reach its nadir. Zinc Learning Labs #SpringBoardPL

Have you seen our newest literacy tool, the Close Reading Experience? See how our engaging new game works with a passage from THE GIVER: bit.ly/2Ij911R

Tomorrow we’ll be joining 25 other #edtech products and tools at LEAP Innovations’s 2018 #LEAPMatchDay! See you there, Chicago educators!

Zinc Learning Labs Labs, an online platform free to #SpringBoard users, offers a large selection of supplemental texts specifically chosen to use with SpringBoard ELA.

Have you seen our newest literacy tool, the Close Reading Experience? See how our engaging new game works with a passage from THE GIVER: bit.ly/2Ij911R

"There's one thing that determines the outcome in education and that's reading." - Matt Bardin speaking ASU+GSV #ASUGSV2018 bit.ly/2HgJMwK