Topic: Literacy

Developing lifelong reading begins with books and we, as educators, have the power to make a school’s book supply seem endless in the eyes of its readers.

Here, Kate Roberts shares just a few extended classroom clips from her book, A Novel Approach. In this blog, you'll get a chance to watch Kate confer with two different students, and see how Kate structures a mini-less and read aloud.

A wrap up of the PLC series posts from 2017-18 year.

As students move up the grades and further in their history educations, they will be expected to write about it in increasingly sophisticated ways.

Because of the myriad ways writing workshop and oral language development are linked, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Santa Fe Multi-Day Institute 2018: Day One

Sadness grew to rage as I looked at the children in my family who live in Arizona and wondered, whose histories will they learn?

Readers who read strictly for plot nearly always remain stuck in literal interpretations of text, and typically struggle with more complex reading skills.

Creating Powerful Book Clubs 4-8

Think of the possibilities as graphic novels provide readers who might not be able to tackle higher-levels of text an inroad for high-level thinking work.

Let’s talk about Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style cuts – hacking off large sections of your manuscript to make it better. How do you know where to begin?

There are two key considerations when planning a curriculum that supports success with ELA exams: time and level of text complexity.

We learn how to welcome inquiry into our classrooms for actionable practice in this PLC series.

Good news: if you feel like you’re bashing your head into a brick wall as you try to make assessment work for you, take heart. It’s not you.

Welcome back to the PLC series! Dive into inquiry as a way to honor student thinking and explore how to embed inquiry into the classroom.

When we write, we nudge change. How can we be helping students bring beliefs into writing? Here are some resources to get you started.

The kinds of readers that enter our classrooms are vast. Some read voraciously, and benefit from help tailoring reading plans to push their thinking to more nuanced levels. Some slog through books, wi

As if the wealth of Amy’s own writing and teaching ideas were not enough by themselves, she gifts us with a trove of poems by our favorite children’s poets.