Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read and what that means for your classroom!
This 6-page guide provides thoughtful strategies to help you navigate a research-based approach to literacy.
Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read!
This professional development resource explores current research on the science of reading and discusses what it means for classrooms today.
Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read!
This professional development resource examines current research on the science of reading and discusses what it means for classrooms today.
Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read and write!
This professional development resource examines current research on the science of reading and discusses what it means for classrooms today.
Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers!
This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers.
Explore the what, why, and how of close reading.
Learn the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students based on their progress and performance.
Use informational text effectively to support close reading and comprehension.
This dynamic resource provides a clear explanation of how to use informational text in the classroom and includes practical tips, suggestions, lesson ideas, and digital resources.
Make over your reading routine with fun activities.
This action plan offers techniques to ignite a passion for readers of all levels, bringing the joy of reading to students with classroom-tested activities that build confidence with struggling readers.
Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction!
This professional development resource supports teachers with easy-to-implement lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills and comprehension.
Use effective questions across all grade levels to improve comprehension.
This innovative resource provides teachers with the tools needed to effectively instruct using text-dependent questions.
Understand and evaluate where information comes from and knowing how to separate fact from fiction.
This resource provides educators with the tools they need to help students become critical thinkers and users of information from multiple sources.
Research-based tools needed to improve students' reading comprehension.
This practical resource offers classroom-tested interventions to use with struggling readers in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings.
Help students closely read visual texts.
Teachers will learn to evaluate the complexity of visual texts and match them to their students.
This resource help teachers transition towards a balanced literacy framework.
Designed for both newer and veteran teachers alike, this straightforward book offers simple techniques and concrete strategies to nurture reading and writing skills.
Create and use multi-genre, multimodal text sets for content-area and language arts study.
It provides detailed information to support you as you choose topics, locate and evaluate texts, organize texts for instruction, and assess student learning.
Help students read about Science, Math, Social Studies and Fiction.
This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards.
Use interactive notetaking to engage students and develop deep learning!
Using interactive notetaking strategies will help students organize and store their notes, study for tests, and take ownership of their learning.
Help students increase retention and achievement through effective interactive notetaking!
These resources provides K-2 students with creative strategies for developing interactive notetaking skills.
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction!
This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines.
The latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots.
This K-12 resource is filled with strategies for improving comprehension, planning instructional routines, and building a word-rich learning environment.
Boost students' vocabularies with easy-to-implement effective strategies!
Sample lessons using each strategy are included for grade spans 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, and K-12.
How to teach writing workshop in the 21st century classroom.
Teaches you in step-by-step specificity how to move students from ideas, to drafts, to finished products, to published works.
Teach students how to write for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Create an innovative and collaborative classroom environment where students enjoy writing with this standards-based resource.
Create a rich learning environment and support deep thinking using primary sources.
Dives into the use of primary sources to support the development of students' close reading and writing skills.
Help students write mathematics, social studies, and science content!
Designed in an easy-to-use format, these books include detailed strategies, graphic organizers, activities with classroom examples by grade range levels.
Create enthusiastic writers and facilitate a positive learning environment.
Great for professional development and staying current on research-based best practices, new teachers, pre-service educators, and even teaching veterans.
Techniques to engage students as they strengthen their writing skills.
Whether working with small- and independent-writing groups or the entire classroom, this resource provides lesson plans geared to students of various grades.
Meaningful and research-based strategies for teachers.
Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood, Grades 1-2, Grades 3-5 and for Secondary Grades.
Incorporate different learning opportunities into instruction.
Features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction and nonfiction texts, text sets and text-dependent questions.
Effective text-dependent questions to increase students' understanding of text.
Enables students to study broad concepts such as text structure and point of view, as well as analyze the overarching themes, concepts, arguments, and claims presented in texts.
Give all students access to the curriculum with seamlessly differentiated texts.
This standards-based series supports differentiated instruction and increases reading comprehension in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts.
Perfect for close reading or small-group instruction.
Each selection is written at four different reading levels and includes a focus on setting, character, plot, or language usage.
Use the power of Greek and Latin word roots to support building vocabulary.
This resource can be used online, at-home, or in the classroom to support vocabulary development with 52 short lessons on using word roots to build vocabulary.
Dive into prefixes and suffixes to expand vocabularies and improve word knowledge.
A standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes and presents them in ways that are easy to understand and apply.
Expand content-area vocabularies and improve understanding with this standards-based series.
Help students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots.
Get ready to make learning about figurative language fun.
Students will explore idioms and proverbs through different content areas to develop skills in writing, word meanings, and using context clues.
Deepen students’ understanding of shades of meaning with this easy-to-resource.
Teach essential vocabulary with this cluster approach to help students learn many semantically related words at once.
Teach students how to cite textual evidence when reading and writing
This essential classroom resource will teach students how to read critically in literary and informational texts.