This text is a collection of over 300 strategies that teachers can integrate into a variety of approaches to reading instruction. The author includes clear descriptions of each strategy, as well as effective teaching tips when applying each strategy.
This article helps teachers consider what it means for a text to be culturally relevant. The author highlights three steps to cultural authenticity for teachers to consider in text selection.
In this English Journal article, Nicole Sieben offers secondary English teachers a series of research-based principles and implementation strategies for giving effective feedback to student writers.
In this text, the author discusses the principles of backwards design within the context of English language arts. Chapters address a variety of issues and challenges teachers will face, including decisions about unit planning, assessment, and text selection.
This blog post talks about options for mentor texts and how to choose them. At the end of the post are links to other posts about mentor texts, how to curate them and how to use them in a variety of ways.
This article focuses on the ways in which teachers can ensure that students’ speaking and listening skills are developed. It provides a review of effective classroom routines.
In this post, literacy stages for adolescent students are identified, along with the instructional needs and practices associated with them. It is important to acknowledge a learner’s place on a developmental continuum, but also imperative that adolescent learners are not held back from challenging and authentic texts and tasks because of their identified stage. Knowing how to equip intermediate and advanced stage readers with the tools necessary to unlock meaning on the word and text level is necessary as the demands of these texts and tasks shift in content, purpose, and context.
Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children’s literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis. Chapters are written by authors with expertise in both college teaching and the delivery of research-supported literacy practices in schools. The book features detailed explanations of a wide variety of literacy strategies that can be implemented by both beginning and expert practitioners. Readers will gain knowledge about topics frequently covered in college literacy courses, along with guided practice for applying this knowledge in their future or current classrooms. The book’s success-oriented framework helps guide educators toward improving their own practices and is designed to foster the literacy development of students of all ages.
This resource gives a good definition of what it means to study words through morphology and several specific instructional practices teachers could use to teach word parts.
This video includes a video of a teacher leading a whole class discussion while reflecting on the lesson.
This article provides research-based suggestions for engaging boys in reading and writing.
Provides a set of categorized questions that can be chosen from to create student interest surveys.
The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). These standards and associated benchmarks were themselves developed based on the best available research evidence about the important skills that preschool children should know and be able to demonstrate to be ready for kindergarten by the end of the preschool period.
This guide supports educators in providing high-quality, effective instruction for adolescent readers, focusing on four key areas: Assessment; Framework and Planning for Reading Intervention Classes; Evidence-based Instructional Practices; Adolescent Reading Motivation.
Strategies for developing confident speakers who can share their thoughts and learning.
Chapter 9 of this text focuses on authentic assessment practices for determining adolescent reading proficiency.
In this English Journal article, Tchudi et al. share a revision strategy called “unsettling” and describe how they have used this strategy with writers in their classrooms to deepen writers’ experiences with revision.
Find teacher resources for pk-12 on our Utah State Board of Education English langauage arts elementary page.
This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.
Written by Bill Honig, this book offers educators great resources for teaching foundational literacy skills.