Literacy

When this fifth-grade teacher shifted his school newspaper online, he found that students were motivated to produce high-quality work for an authentic audience—and felt more connected as a community.

Planning to assess literacy skills in formats that work in either live or remote instruction will help middle school teachers meet students where they are.

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.’

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.”

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

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.

An online book club organized by a teacher or school librarian can be a good way to foster social interactions during the pandemic.

Literary theory can be a tough topic for high school students—a simple story may be just the scaffold they need to start figuring it out.

Tracking minutes wasn’t helping her students, so a teacher asked them to instead discuss their reading every day, making it a social activity.