Literacy
Find and share strategies for helping students read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.
How to Build Relationships in an Intervention Setting
Strong connections with students are essential for showing them that you鈥檙e a trustworthy advocate who wants to help them succeed.Incorporating Images in the Classroom
By treating media like text, teachers can create a fast, relevant, and affordable lesson that stimulates lively discussion.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Tips to Help Students With Their Handwriting
These simple tricks to improve motor skills can empower young learners to feel more in control of their handwriting.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Make Read-Alouds Fun and Effective for All Ages
Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines鈥攁nd age levels.54 Excellent, Low-Stakes Writing Prompts
Across grade levels, engaging and creative writing prompts encourage kids to explore their opinions, reflect on experiences, and build strong arguments.Why I鈥檓 Banning Student AI Use This Year
Chanea Bond will ban AI this year to give her high school English students the opportunity to develop foundational skills that she believes the tech can hinder.How to Use Universal Screening Data to Guide Instruction
Information collected from literacy assessments can help teachers make instructional decisions that improve student learning.130Your content has been saved!
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Is it Time to Drop 鈥楩inding the Main Idea鈥� and Teach Reading in a New Way?
Some schools are changing the way they teach reading鈥攂ased on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like 鈥榝inding the main idea.鈥�58.4kYour content has been saved!
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When students explore new words through movement, they understand them better, retain them longer, and feel more empowered to use them.
How to Teach Handwriting鈥攁nd Why It Matters
Teaching young students how to write by hand before moving on to keyboarding聽can help improve their reading fluency as well.59kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Activating Learning by Milling to Music
When students pretend they鈥檙e at a fancy party making small talk, a simple brainstorm for writing ideas becomes more lively, more cooperative鈥攁nd more effective.16.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How a Podcast Toppled the Reading Instruction Canon
Journalist Emily Hanford, creator of the hit podcast 鈥淪old a Story,鈥� on the national reckoning around how we teach kids to read in schools鈥攁nd where we鈥檙e still getting it wrong.
5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension
These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but聽have difficulty understanding what they read鈥攁nd they鈥檙e beneficial for all students.43.7kYour content has been saved!
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Reading Aloud to Middle School Students
Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.45.1kYour content has been saved!
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4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!)
A look at a few popular literacy practices that shouldn鈥檛 make the cut鈥攁long with fresh strategies that experienced teachers and literacy experts recommend instead.26kYour content has been saved!
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