Common Core State Standards
- An Overview: What do I Need to Know about the Common Core State Standards to Inform My Teaching?
- A Close Look at the Anchor Standards: What do they say and how will they impact my ELA instruction?
- Creating Questions that Nurture Deep Understandings of Text
- Why Text Complexity Matters: Changing our teaching to meet the new demands in the Common Core State Standards
- Writing about Reading: Developing the Ability to Take a Position and Argue it Using Text Based Evidence
- Literacy in the Content Areas: What can Social Studies and Science do to contribute to children’s reading proficiency?
Reading
- Establishing a Reader’s Workshop
- Motivating Struggling and Reluctant Readers
- Reader’s that Think—Improving Student Comprehension
- Sustaining Independent Reading with Book Choice
- Creating Libraries that Support Strong Literacy Instruction
- Developing a Curriculum of Talk to Support Deeper Understanding
- Planning for Effective Small Group Instruction
- Guided Reading
- Strategy Groups
- Book Clubs
- Reader's Theater
- Effectively Assessing Reading Achievement
- Using the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System
- Reading Partnerships and Book Clubs
- Effective Interactive Read-Alouds
- Conferring: Moves that Lift the Quality of Student Learning
- Creating a Year-Long Reading Curriculum
- Show What You Know - Teaching for Testing Success Without Compromising Best Practices
- Teaching Literacy in the 21st Century - Unleashing the Potential of Online Learning Tools to Build Better Readers and Writers
- Mini Lessons That Help Readers Delve Deep Into Meaning
- Teaching Students to Understand Non-Fiction
- THAT'S Understanding: Helping Children Monitor Reading for Meaning
Writing
- Establishing a Writer’s Workshop
- Developing Units of Study
- Creating a Year Long Writer’s Workshop Curriculum
- Researching our Writers—Conferring that Works
- Improving the Quality of Student Writing
- Writing Non-Fiction
- Using Personal Narrative and Memoir Writing to Help Children Share Stories
- Recognizing what Writer’s Need—Moving Beyond Detail and Description
- Writing Poetry
- Using Mentor Texts to Raise the Quality of Student Writing
