Sort by: Alphabetical Most Viewed Newest

1. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
2. Professional Development | Grade   K  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children’s Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)
   This book focuses on best practices for providing preschoolers with early literacy instruction.
3. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Conversation: The Comprehension Connection
   Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We Fix Them?"
   The authors of this article offer some suggestions for how to improve literature circle discussions.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Overlapping Vocabulary and Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients
   This teaching technique combines two strategies, context clues and semantic gradients, to help students make vocabulary-to-comprehension connections.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers
   Easy-to-use lesson plans and activities are included in this book to support five stages of reading development, from emergent to beginning, fledgling, transitional, and finally independent.
8. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
   The strategy presented in this article can be used to build and enrich students' understanding of words in any subject area.