Topic: Literacy

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.

Reading and writing can be powerful tools for agency and liberation, which is why making sure our practices are grounded in inclusion is so important.

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?

Information writing is one of those topics that can seem, on the outset, rather dull. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how.

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.

In this PLC series, we examine ways to make our literary classroom practices inclusive for English Language Learners.

In A Mindset for Learning, authors Kristi and Christine show how together, students and teachers can create classrooms of risk and resilience.

Building a strong workshop practice is similar to building a house. Doing it successfully takes the right tools.

When we create overarching science story lines (science stories) for instruction, students are more likely to remember what we teach.