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Students write for the same reason that Pac-Man munches: to accumulate points. Writers are people, not Pac-Mans.

Sneed Collard is an award winning children’s author who has been working on revision strategies for years. Now, along with Vicki Spandel, they’re helping educators make nonfiction writing more meaning

I often wondered whether I was being an instructional leader. That is what I was aiming for, but how was I to know if I had gotten there?

Multi-Day Institute: Teaching With Student Directed Inquiry

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.

Research is important throughout the entire writing process, and it can be fun, too. Give it a try in your own writing instruction. Here's how.

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.

Whether you were able to attend the conference or not, we've compiled some favorite Heinemann podcasts with authors who presented at this year's NCTE17.

This week on the Heinemann Podcast: Maggie Beattie Roberts, coauthor of DIY Literacy and staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.

This is part of the beauty of the Units of Study: the specificity and precision of the Unit books juxtaposed with the flexibility of the If…Then…Curriculum book.

For a variety of reasons, expressing understanding is hard for many struggling learners.

Here, Newkirk discusses how he creates space with his students by giving them time to discuss and solve problems more slowly.

this study guide offers another dimension of how this book can be used throughout the evaluation cycle.

When it comes to teaching young students to read and write, no curriculum for the primary grades would be complete without an emphasis on word study. Emergent readers and writers must understand how l

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.

I know why so many teachers leave the profession in their first five years. The Blahs. For me, the Blahs come in October.