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Road to Lifelong Literacy: The Art of Reading Aloud

Educators and Librarians will learn about the benefits of incorporating read-alouds into their classrooms and programs. All information will be...

Choosing Texts for Comprehension Strategy Instruction

Trainers, coaches, and lead teachers are encouraged to use this ool to provide in­service training on teaching comprehension strategies. This tool...

Literacy Comprehension Strategies

Comprehension strategies are specific procedures that guide students to become aware of howwell they comprehend as they attempt to read and write....

Partner Reading

This video depicts a second-grade whole class engaging in a partner reading activity. There are 14 students in this demonstration and they are...

Weekly Reading Practice Routine

In the instructional routine outlined in this resource, students work to improve their fluency daily. Additionally, they work to improve their...

Strategies to Build Reading Fluency

This resource contains two reading-fluency strategy lessons.  Both strategies are easily taught and have been demonstrated to be very effective...

Foundational Literacy for Families: Early Writing

Writing through the early years is complex. Children must have plenty of opportunities to explore both the concept that they can control and create...

Foundational Literacy for Families: Early Communication

Early language development involves children’s ability to both understand the input of language, words, and gestures, and express themselves in a...

Interactive History with Historypin

This video will give you an introduction to and show you features of the interactive mapping software Historypin. Historypin is a free,...

Newsela: Connect Current Events to Today's Student

With a targeted and bold goal to improve reading comprehension in students grades 2 through 12, Newsela offers an extensive digital library spanning...

CommonLit Tutorial

Look no further if you're looking for quality, rigorous, and standards-based texts for literacy instruction! CommonLit provides...

CommonLit: An Online Library of Free Texts

CommonLit provides instructional materials to support literacy development aimed at students in grades 5-12. Included in their library are short...

Station Rotation Model (6-12; All subject areas) with Dr. Catlin Tucker

This session will focus on guiding secondary teachers through the process of taking their linear teacher-led approach to instruction and designing a...

Google Slides: Reading Recordings with Vocaroo

Have you ever thought, "My students just aren't old enough to use Google Slides?" or "I'm not sure I can foster strong reading skills using the...

6 Ways to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Many students use digital storytelling to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to write narrative stories. However, the power of digital...

Digital Storytelling as Authentic Assessment

To help students develop 21st-century skills, they will need to move beyond the traditional tests usually given and provide more authentic,...

Digital Storytelling: Sample Rubric

When you're ready to assess student digital stories, it will be helpful to use a rubric.  There's no need to create your own when Kathy Schrock,...

Foundational Literacy for Families: Early Reading

Learning to read is fundamental to children’s success in school, and the process of developing emergent literacy skills related to future reading...

The Importance of Read Alouds for Middle Schoolers

Should read-alouds happen with kids once they are reading on their own? Please join us to discuss the why and how of reading aloud to middle...

Building Thinking Classrooms in ELA

Guiding Questions: What does an ELA Thinking Classroom look like? What works when applying the "Building Thinking Classrooms" approach to...