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

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

Previous posts in this blog series discussed two steps to learning the strands, the knowledge and skills statements, and the…

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

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

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

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

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

When I first “heard” this term, like you, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was reading Make It Stick by…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been an avid reader since birth. There are more pictures of me “reading” to my baby dolls than…

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

Writing is one of the most important tasks that a student engages in.

More and more, literacy is being understood as a foundation for learning.

There are many educational strategies for teaching students fundamental literacy skills.

Though developing close reading skills can be achieved through a wide range of study techniques, one necessary learning strategy is asking text-dependent questions that promote evidence of learning.

A course on dramatic literature is an effective way to foster student creativity and reading comprehension.