Literacy
Find and share strategies for helping students read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.
How to Make Read-Alouds Fun and Effective for All Ages
Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels.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!
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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.Increasing Talk Time in World Language Classes
Teachers can experiment with a variety of strategies to build and assess students’ ability to converse in the target language.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.Guiding Young Students to Develop Self-Regulation
These time-saving strategies for teaching early learners social and emotional skills incorporate activities you’re already using.Why I’m 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.
Is it Time to Drop ‘Finding the Main Idea’ and Teach Reading in a New Way?
Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’58.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Using Movement to Teach Vocabulary
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—and Why It Matters
Teaching young students how to write by hand before moving on to keyboarding can help improve their reading fluency as well.58.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Activating Learning by Milling to Music
When students pretend they’re at a fancy party making small talk, a simple brainstorm for writing ideas becomes more lively, more cooperative—and more effective.16.8kYour content has been saved!
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5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension
These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read—and they’re beneficial for all students.43.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Which Reading Strategies to Try, and Which to Ditch
Research shows that some popular activities for reading instruction don’t actually result in more fluent readers—so we rounded up the most classroom-worthy ones.27.4kYour 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!
Go to My Saved Content.How a Podcast Toppled the Reading Instruction Canon
Journalist Emily Hanford, creator of the hit podcast “Sold a Story,” on the national reckoning around how we teach kids to read in schools—and where we’re still getting it wrong.
