Use this Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2 to determine the complexity of texts and choose the best texts for your class at the right time to advance achievement.
Shared from Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning, here are 25 ways to use the essays your students write to further the writing process.
Post this chart from This Is Disciplinary Literacy to help you remember and make the connection between deeper learning and disciplinary literacy daily. (Secondary)
Hear from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12, the learning conditions needed as students go from surface learning, to deeper learning and transfer.
Learn from Kathy Glass how to use ELA CC Standards to create rigorous, concept-driven curriculum.
Learn from Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke, authors of Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, how to teach students the language and behavior of getting along.
Join Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of the bestselling Rigorous Reading, as they articulate an instructional plan to support reading instruction within K-12 classrooms.
Explore with Jim Burke the ways educators can prepare students for Common Core Assessments without undermining daily instruction.
Hear from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey about their one-of-a-kind coaching platform for making proficient reading the next PD initiative across all K-12 classrooms.
Explore with Gravity Goldberg, author of Mindsets and Moves, what deters independent readers and what teachers can do to better support their students.
Learn the four kinds of readers rules of notice from Jeffrey Wilhelm, author of Diving Deep Into Nonfiction, Grades 6-12, and how they can accelerate comprehension.