Topic: Literacy

What do we do when students are reluctant to write? The most important thing to remember is that it's the conditions, not the kids.

Playful exploration with language can support students’ learning in three main ways.

Listen in or watch as Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and Tricia Ebarvia talk about centering racial equity in our literacy practices and their upcoming (virtual!) Institutes for Racial Equity in Literacy. #IREL20 ⁠

Irene and Gay share their story of The Literacy Continuum and how it evolved into the indispensable tool educators know and use today. 

The PLC series continues with reflecting on inquiry as a process for both teachers and students alike.

Time spent with colleagues in professional development away from school provides numerous benefits. But often, two huge barriers exist: finding funding and making the solid case to attend, telling the story of this kind of experience.

Here, you’ll find Jen's answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the teaching phase of Complete Comprehension.

Here, you’ll find Jennifer Serravallo's answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the evaluation phase of Complete Comprehension.

There is a power to series books, and they should have a prominent space in our bookrooms and classroom libraries. Here are a bunch of new ways to hook those series readers in your classroom!

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