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Take advantage of this step-by-step lesson plan focusing on visualization and hearing.

This reflection exercise from Simply Small Groups is an opportunity for teachers to evaluate their small group.

This reflection has prompts for students that are emergent readers, early readers, transitional readers, and fluent readers.

What are the benefits of shaking up shared reading? View the multiple classroom applications and advantages!

This introduction section allows you to get a behind the scenes look at the structure of the Read-Aloud Experience.

This lesson helps students build their comprehension skills using the book Locomotive by Brian Floca.

This resource provides questions to consider when reading for critical comprehension to support your work as you and your students read against the text.

Whether we consider the effect size of teacher efficacy or annual state testing results, the bottom line is, if students don’t buy into our practice or the belief that they can be successful in our classroom, what else matters? Justin Stygles, teacher and author of the new book, I Hate Teaching, suggests three questions you should be asking your students to build trust and credibility with your students.

Explore a brief overview of each lesson included in Fighting Fake News and its purpose.

Despite the immensely powerful manipulations of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media, and the cognitive biases embedded in our minds, research does show that we can be more consciously aware, reflective, and rational about news and other forms of information. It all begins with knowing your own mind. Explore a lesson from Fighting Fake News to learn the questions to get you and your students started.

In this chapter from Aiming High, Evan Robb explores topics such as developing an effective reading plan, four types of reading, the characteristics of literacy leaders, and implementing a reading initiative using seven indicators. 

Discover from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12, the literacy practices that align with phases of learning to impact student achievement.