Literacy

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.

By using culturally inclusive texts to spark conversation, teachers can help young learners get the most out of these books.

A summer program in Los Angeles Unified School District shows how teachers—even ones new to computer science—can foster literacy and coding skills simultaneously.

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.’

In distance learning, teachers can adapt many of the strategies they would use in the classroom to promote reading skills.

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.

For decades, the findings of the '30 Million Word Gap' have had a seismic impact on society. But recent research may call those findings into question.

This rigorous, standards-aligned narrative unit combines classic literature and contemporary social issues.