Literacy

The knowledge middle and high school students gain through reading mentor texts can strengthen their critical thinking skills.

Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’

Teaching young students how to write by hand before moving on to keyboarding can help improve their reading fluency as well.

The author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! chats with us about creativity, drawing as empathy, and letting kids “do 51 percent of the work.”

Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.

The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.

Steps middle school teachers and librarians can take to help students assess their reading skills and grow to enjoy increasingly complex texts.

These students need to know that their teachers understand their struggles and believe that they can be successful in the classroom.

Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.

These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read—and they’re beneficial for all students.