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Weaving the Threads of Common Topics and Themes

As an educator, are you often searching for instructional strategies that will improve your students’ reading skills? Here is one…

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Implementing Guided Instruction

Teachers know the importance of guided instruction. As teachers and students work together during this learning process, students gain skills…

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Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 3: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year”

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Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 2: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year”

The 2018−2019 school year is known as the “learning year,” the time educators study the TEKS that will be implemented…

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Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 1: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year”

The K−8 English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) TEKS adopted in 2017 will be implemented in the 2019−2020 school year….

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Get in the Writing Game!

To say that writing is a complex skill is an understatement! Because teachers are proficient writers, we may not consciously…

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The Mission of Debriefing

Historically used by astronauts, debriefing is a technique in which experiences are reviewed and shared at the conclusion of space…

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5 End-of-Year Activities to Capture Student Reflections on Learning

It’s May. Students are restless, longing for long, lazy summer days. You are exhausted, yearning for a much-deserved respite as…

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15 Interventions for Close Reading Lessons

This is the final article in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and…

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Act III of Close Reading: What the Text Means

In Act II of close reading, your students examined how the text works. Now it’s time to raise the curtain…

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Diving In to Close Reading

A literacy topic that has been gaining traction in many schools across the country is close reading. Why is close…

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How to Find “Goldilocks” Texts for Close Reading Lessons

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How to Design Questions for Deep Understanding in Close Reading

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Act I of Close Reading: What the Text Says

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Act II of Close Reading: How the Text Works

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How Pancakes Flipped the Flavor of My Classroom

Pancakes taste like home. Growing up, my dad took a hands-off approach to parenting. He was a hard-working, hard-talking, hard-living…

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A Summer Reading Challenge for Teachers

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Keeping It Real: Authentic Vocabulary Acquisition

Each week of the school year, my seventh-grade son brought home a list of twelve or so stems (i.e., roots…

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