Topic: Skills

Literacy assessments provide critical insights, but their real power lies in how teachers use that data to drive instruction.

By gaining a clear picture of each child’s reading abilities from the start, educators can tailor their instruction to meet individual needs, ensuring that every lesson is relevant, engaging, and effective.

Discover practical ways to use assessment data to personalize instruction and improve student outcomes in elementary and middle school classrooms. Learn strategies that teachers can implement today.

Writing minilessons are a powerful tool for teachers, helping students to grow as independent writers.

Record-keeping systems allow you to consolidate data, study individual progress, track the frequency with which you meet with students, and easily access and update your data across time.

Here are six tools you can slowly introduce into your classroom writing center to support student independence.

Small-group reading lessons have the potential to transform students into confident and skilled readers.

When teaching whole-class novels, Roberts continually asks two questions to determine if her teaching practice truly has students' interests in mind: