Literacy
Find and share strategies for helping students read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.
‘Is This Anything?’
These low-stakes writing activities can be used across content areas to help high school students recognize that their ideas have value.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.Streaming Toward Reading Fluency
When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression—their fluency improves over time.Getting Teens Hooked on Books With First Chapter Fridays
By reading aloud in middle and high school, teachers can expose students to new ideas, genres, and authors—and get them excited about books.3 Games to Amp Up Reading Instruction
Gamifying literacy and phonics lessons teaches students valuable social-emotional skills, gives them regular movement breaks, and increases their engagement.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.1.5MYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Just Like Phonics, Comprehension Requires Explicit Teaching
Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.63.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Exploring Narrative Elements Through a Drama Game
Using an improv exercise to practice the parts of a story gets ideas flowing for students—and helps them add structure to their writing.Making Student Thinking Visible During Writing Assignments
This update on the old-school strategy of using index cards to collect textual evidence helps students slow down and focus on each stage of the writing process.How to Help Middle School Students Navigate Challenging Texts
Engaging interactive tasks can help middle school students more easily understand complex informational and literary works.4.9kYour content has been saved!
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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.’1.1MYour content has been saved!
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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.1.2MYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.The Benefits of Teaching Morphology in the Early Elementary Grades
Showing young learners how to break words down into their smallest parts strengthens vocabulary, comprehension, and decoding.776Your 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.860.2kYour content has been saved!
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