Sort by: Alphabetical Most Viewed Newest

1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
   This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Meeting the Demands of the Common Core: Mentoring Readers of Science and Technical Texts
   Discover why integrating literacy practices into the flow of regular disciplinary instruction is integral to 21st-century learners.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Science Books for Teens
   Books about science allow readers to encounter new concepts, ask new questions, and discover what we can learn simply by paying close attention to our surroundings. You’ll hear about ecology and climate change, food production, infectious disease, ancient human history, the universe, and our power as humans for both ingenuity and destruction.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Trading Card Creator
   This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App
   Word Mover
   Word Mover allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   World of Animals
   Explore the world of animals through Caroline Arnold’s nonfiction picture books for children.