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Grades K – 12 | Meeting & Event
2013 WLU Summer Institute
Register now for the 2013 Literacies for All Summer Institute, “Authentic Literacy Events and Social Actions Celebrating Relationships and Partnerships,” July 18-20 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
Grades 6 – 12 | Professional Library
Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Guided Reading to Develop Student Reading Independence
Grades K – 8 | Strategy Guide
Grades 6 – 12 | Online Professional Development
Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Guided Reading to Develop Student Reading Independence
This guide presents basic structures for implementing guided reading, which involves working with small groups of children possessing similar strategies and challenges when encountering new text.
Grades K – 8 | Strategy Guide
Tracking and Supporting Student Learning with Kidwatching
In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students’ understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction.
Grades 6 – 12 | Online Professional Development
Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning
Drawing on the work in his 2012 NCTE book Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment, Scott Filkins shares practical tools to gather information about students as readers and instructional responses that promote increased understanding of subject matter.
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Grades 3 – 5 | Professional Library
Reciprocal Teaching at Work: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension (2nd Edition)
With many practical lessons, this book shows how to use reciprocal teaching in a variety of classroom settings to enhance students' reading comprehension.
Professional Library
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
This article discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students' sense of poetic passion and pleasure and describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices.
Grades 6 – 12 | Professional Library
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
This article describes the use of learning clubs to motivate struggling students to engage in literacy events and foster literacy development.
Grades 9 – 12 | Professional Library
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom
What can improve students’ engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.
Grades K – 5 | Professional Library
Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K-5 Teachers
This practical text outlines various ways to enhance and enrich writing instruction through the use of children's literature.