Topic: NCTE

In anticipation of NCTE 2024, we're happy to offer a discount of 20% off professional books. See post for details, including Heinemann's informational NCTE page.

A list of Heinemann professional books published in 2023.

As educators, we all want our students to have the skills and insights needed to navigate the world outside of their classroom. In this mission, the significance of relevance in reading cannot be understated.

Tips to help you adapt your writing workshop to support multilingual language learners.

Tips to help you adapt your reading workshop to support multilingual language learners.

Comprehension is not about spitting out facts and filling in blanks. Comprehension is about understanding. And reading is not merely about word calling. Reading is about thinking.

Providing young children with lots of opportunities and encouragement to read unfamiliar books helps them to become adventurous, confident readers who are highly engaged meaning-makers.

Looking for ways to help struggling readers in your classroom? Check out these five early reading intervention activities to help improve reading skills and confidence.

Confident readers read and think flexibly and critically about content AND perform effectively on the test.

Until students are comfortable with authors, genres, and interests, it’s hard for them to find books they will love to read. Learn how the Good Books box can help students select a book.

An easy and practical tool that will help teachers prioritize student’s work time. Download a free copy of the planning wheel from The Literacy Studio by Ellin Oliver Keene.

Creating change in our education system and our greater society is a longterm game and we need teachers fired up, ready to go, and whole.

Provide time to find poems, time to read them, time to hear them, and time to reflect on the poem through talking, writing, and drawing.

The goal is to teach students one thing in a very short amount of time. Why? A blog from the authors of A Teacher's Guide to Writing Workshop Minilessons, Lisa Eickholdt and Patricia Vitale-Reilly.

Once we understand the ways in which a school’s culture impacts our students, we can make shifts to make the school environment more trusting, collaborative, and welcoming.

There are also a few things we can do as teachers of writing to reignite our own energy and joy. So here are a few tips to keep in mind as you journey on your way.

One way to meet our students where they are is to take a close look at the resources we’re using in the classroom. Are they the best fit for the students we are teaching today?

An activity which builds classroom community and raises social consciousness around the unique history of the land on which our schools reside.