This blog post provides an overview of how mentor texts fit in lessons.

In this English Journal article, Mazura et al. describe six strategies to use during the revision process, showing how these strategies support the development of students’ voice and agency as writers.

This is an example of the Mentor Text Table you will submit as Evidence of Preparation and Planning.

This blog post on the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership website offers a concise and clear overview of how to read and analyze a text in preparation for unit plan design.

This book and website include resources for teachers to motivate and engage students. The Book Whisperer includes a list of books recommended for developing a high interest classroom library. Reading in the Wild was written as a follow-up to The Book Whisperer and is based in part on survey responses from adult readers, teachers and students. The book provides advice and strategies for developing, encouraging, and assessing five key reading habits that cultivate a lifelong love of reading.

This practitioner resource includes 45 mini-lessons to help teachers teach students how to engage and participate in literature circles.

Cornelius Minor identifies tools, attributes, and strategies that can augment our listening, allowing us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children.

This article describes a number of creative projects that incorporate art and literacy skills into a science unit on biomes and ecosystems.

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education.

Describes a study that integrates grammar into the teaching of writing. Provides a good review of other articles and titles that will help explain the research base for this approach.

The purpose of this document is to provide a research-based resource for media, policymakers, and teachers that acknowledges the complexities of reading as an ongoing, developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary (adolescent) readers and their teachers.

Assessment definitions and principles for literacy assessment adopted by the National Council of Teachers of English.

This document walks teachers through the questions to ask in preparing a writing task and helps them consider all aspects in creating a writing prompt.

This short and practitioner-based text offers a thoughtful discussion about challenges students encounter with reading as well as book lists of recommended texts. The author–a noted YA librarian and enthusiast–also includes practical strategies for helping students engage with texts.

The National Center on Improving LIteracy's Mission: To increase access to, and use of, evidence-based approaches to screen, identify, and teach students with literacy-related disabilities, including dyslexia.To build individual and organizational capacity to assess students’ literacy-related skill, identify students with disabilities or those at risk of disabilities, and fully implement evidence-based literacy programs and professional development.

This position statement from the National Council of Teachers of English defines the components of effective reading instruction and cites research to support these ideas. It provides a comprehensive overview of the teaching of reading in the 21st century as well as recommendations for teaching reading for teachers and guidelines for policy makers.

In this English Journal article, Elizabeth Thackeray Nelson describes a writing unit she taught with 12th-grade students. She defines the learning goals and describes the range of writing strategies she used with her students throughout the writing process––from inquiry to drafting to revision to publication––of developing community action projects. This article may help teachers who would like to read about how a teacher builds a unit and integrates writing strategy instruction and reflection with student writers.

This article discusses a strategy to help elementary students organize information while doing research.

This text provides an overview of the components of effective vocabulary study for middle grades readers. It includes meaningful supports for selecting words, word study, vocabulary development, and assessment.

This Teaching Channel resource includes a video that models how to use observation and anecdotal notes to assess students’ ability to participate in academic discussions about texts as well as classroom resources such as participation protocols.