Lexia PowerUp Literacy, Grades 6+, is designed to enhance core English Language Arts instruction for non-proficient readers. Blending online student-driven instruction with offline educator-delivered lessons and independent skill-based activities, PowerUp Literacy accelerates the development of both fundamental literacy skills and higher order thinking skills through personalized learning paths. PowerUp Literacy addresses the instructional needs of a wide range of students, from struggling to nearly proficient readers, by identifying skill gaps and providing personalized, systematic instruction in Word Study, Grammar, and Comprehension. This explicit instruction prepares students to comprehend and engage with complex texts across a range of genres. Embedded progress monitoring, actionable data, and scripted lessons empower teachers to deliver the exact instruction each student needs.

This article discusses the research-based strategy of identifying similarities and differences and provides links to web sites to develop teacher's content knowledge.

This article provides guidelines for teaching, modeling, and practicing the basics of effective speaking.

Provides strategies to improve the quality of discussion in online as well as in-person formats.

This slideshow will give links to book lists, example templates and instructional videos to help teachers in all content areas promote literacy and increase engagement

These articles look at the difficulty of teaching literacy in secondary schools and the reasons content-area teachers may balk when asked to teach reading explicitly.

This article describes how primary school teachers and their school technology specialist use classroom blogging to engage children in reading and writing.

This website and professional texts by Jeff Zwiers offer a variety of resources (tools, research, videos, etc.) for strengthening the quality and quantity of productive academic conversations.

A high school teacher describes an assignment in which students study the histories and social reception of words (in some cases considered obscenities) used to insult people of various social categories. Students come to recognize the powerful, sometimes damaging effects of language, enabling them to fight those effects intellectually. Many derogatory terms are cited as examples in this essay.

Book Love addresses student apathy head on, first by recognizing why students don't read assigned readings or for pleasure. The book provides advice for helping students find books that are right for them, building in time to read, reflect, and share. The website provides workshop handouts, reading lists, videos, etc. In the article, “Let them read, please” Penny describes what it takes to build a culture of reading in secondary schools.

In this Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez defines three different approaches to designing rubrics to assess student work and provides examples of each, while discussing the benefits and drawbacks of the different models. Teachers may find these resources useful as they consider how they use their rubrics for response to and/or assessment of student writing.

Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts - including websites, printed material, video, and music - to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explore how to use fossils and artifacts (scientific clues) to learn about the polar regions' past. Targeted literacy skills include making inferences, and using context clues to define new vocabulary.

This article highlights lessons and activities for elementary students about the people and cultures of the Arctic region.

This article highlights lessons and activities for elementary students about heat, insulation, and how animals and people stay warm in cold environments.

This article includes lessons that elementary teachers can use to build the foundations of climate literacy while meeting elementary science standards. Lessons are paired with literacy activities as well.

This article describes daily life and work at the IceCube telescope at the South Pole, Antarctica, and links to informational text about them. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.

Guide to planning assessments for specific learning objectives, including establishing validity and reliability.

This online resource offers extensive ideas and support for teachers looking to integrate literature circles into their curriculum. The “first steps, next steps, and later steps” chart provides ideas for those just beginning to integrate literature circles as well as those with experience who are seeking to refine and improve the literature experience.