This What Works Clearinghouse guide presents strategies that classroom teachers and specialists …
This What Works Clearinghouse guide presents strategies that classroom teachers and specialists can use to increase the reading ability of adolescent students. The recommendations aim to help students gain more from their reading tasks, improve their motivation for and engagement in the learning process, and assist struggling readers who may need intensive and individualized attention.
This brief and accompanying infographic from National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) …
This brief and accompanying infographic from National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) detail what screeners are, what happens if a student is identified as at-risk from a screener, and what parents and caregivers can do to support their student.
This infographic offers an overview of how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning …
This infographic offers an overview of how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning impact our beliefs and outlines some key tips on how to best defend ourselves against cognitive biases. Confirmation bias is an innate, unconscious tendency to interpret information in ways that confirm what we already believe — or want to believe. Similar to confirmation bias, motivated reasoning occurs when someone actively looks for reasons why they’re right and rejects facts and research that don’t fit their beliefs. And confirmation bias can actually cause people to engage in motivated reasoning.
English language learners, who are challenged by learning a new language and …
English language learners, who are challenged by learning a new language and new content in that language at the same time. Teachers can help prepare ELL students to successfully work with non-fiction, (or expository) text, however, in many ways — and the earlier the better.
A timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis, While We Watched follows …
A timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis, While We Watched follows tormented journalist Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of fake news, falling ratings and the resulting cutbacks. Are there viewers for fact-based analyses anymore? Will his show survive or become a swan song of reason – drowning out in sensationalism, misinformation, and ratings-driven editorial decisions? In this lesson plan students will explore the relationship between an independent free press and a democracy.
This video features an extended interview with Tim Shanahan, Ph.D., and includes …
This video features an extended interview with Tim Shanahan, Ph.D., and includes descriptions of research-based recommendations from the What Works Clearinghouse about how to teach literacy to young students.
The purpose of this document is to increase the capacity of practitioners …
The purpose of this document is to increase the capacity of practitioners and educational leaders to support a broad range of learners who need more literacy supports to become skilled readers and writers by identifying a set of essential practices that are research-supported and should be the focus of professional development throughout the state. These practices for intensifying literacy instruction apply to those learners with significant and persistent reading and writing challenges who have not responded when provided with instruction aligned with state academic standards, regardless of disability status.
This infographic details questions parents and families can ask about monitoring progress, …
This infographic details questions parents and families can ask about monitoring progress, sharing information, and understanding the intervention plan their child is receiving.
This infographic, developed in collaboration with the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, …
This infographic, developed in collaboration with the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, provides an overview of intensive intervention including who, what, where, when, and how.
Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, …
Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
Pre-reading activities may be designed to motivate student interest, activate prior knowledge, …
Pre-reading activities may be designed to motivate student interest, activate prior knowledge, or pre-teach potentially difficult concepts and vocabulary. This is also a great opportunity to introduce comprehension components such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, personification, main idea, sequencing, and others.
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range …
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.
This Nearpod lesson focuses on creating simple sentences by identifying nouns, verbs, …
This Nearpod lesson focuses on creating simple sentences by identifying nouns, verbs, and fragments. This can be delivered as a Live lesson or a student-paced lesson. The format may include either synchronous or asynchronous instruction. The author of this lesson is Danielle Macias. The background images in the Nearpod lesson were created by Slides Go: English vocabulary workshop presentation. Slidesgo. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2023, from https://slidesgo.com/theme/english-vocabulary-workshop#search-Education&position-5&results-4638
Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an …
Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. …
Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.
Once upon a time, in Ireland, there lived a "gloomery" little girl …
Once upon a time, in Ireland, there lived a "gloomery" little girl named Nora. What's "gloomery"? It's a sort of sad, crying feeling — the kind where, even if no tears fall from your eyes, you can still feel the crying deep in your bones. Restoring Nora's smile would take a magical adventure and the intervention of woodland fairies. Listen now to the Irish folk tale Nora Mavourneen and the Fairy Queen, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring Irish music plus original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging …
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
Dive into the meaning and history of the idiom “it’s raining cats …
Dive into the meaning and history of the idiom “it’s raining cats and dogs” with this video from Say What?! Explore possible origins featuring Vikings, sailors, poets, straw roofs, and old English.
Support materials include teaching tips, discussion questions, vocabulary, and an activity where students create a corresponding image and caption for one of the origin stories from the video.
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