Each year, educators from across the country travel to Boothbay, Maine, to work with colleagues and literacy experts on issues of reading and writing. (continue reading)
Lucy Calkins and her colleagues have developed a new Units of Study for Phonics for K-1 that will release early this summer. This new resource will help early educators provide an accessible introduction to phonics. (continue reading)
Next week, Heinemann will be in Washington, D.C. for two national math conferences: the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). (continue reading)
This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we're talking with Harvey 'Smokey' Daniels, author of The Curious Classroom, about Student-Directed Inquiry. (continue reading)
If you read aloud regularly to your students, you know: there is no time in the day quite like read aloud time. A good read aloud can bring a group together like nothing else, can provide a foundation of camaraderie, trust, and respect in a classroom. (continue reading)
Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis explain how The Intermediate Comprehension Toolkit is a resource, not a program. It can be adapted to and integrated with any instructional approach. (continue reading)
Once students are comfortable with the idea that mistakes are great, it is important that they begin to notice them on their own. As with self-correcting while reading, we want our students to notice when they are making a mistake and make attempts to remedy it. (continue reading)
Your first draft is like a dark room and our questions can show you the parts we’re curious to know more about—the places to shine your flashlight. It’s your choice as a writer which questions tug at your pen the most, but choose one or two, and cast your beam in those dark corners. (continue reading)
Patricia Vitale-Reilly's book Supporting Struggling Learners: 50 Instructional Moves for the Classroom Teacher provides practical strategies for empowering students with the right tools to grow and learn. In this video, Patricia talks about providing strong study skills. (continue reading)
