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ILEARN English/Language Arts Stimulus Specifications: Beginning School Year 2025-2026

The ILEARN English/Language Arts (ELA) Stimulus Specifications provide guidelines for the creation and/or selection of appropriate stimuli (including...

Nurturing Composition Development

In this session, Matt Glover will help participants see the amazing thinking that children are capable of when we notice, and, how children are...

Conferring with Young Writers

In this session, Matt Glover will help teachers become better at the most challenging and powerful part of teaching writing: conferring. ...

Daily and Year Long Structures for Supporting Writing

In this session, Matt Glover will provide possibilities and options for supporting students with whole-group instruction through writing-focused...

Google Read Along

Read Along is a free resource to help kids independently learn and build their reading skills with the help of an in-app reading buddy named Diya. As...

Word Reference

Word Reference is a free online dictionary with resources to conjugate verbs and offers audio pronunciations in the target language. This is a...

BookSnaps with Google Tools

UNPUBLISHED - BROKEN ATTRIBUTION LINKBookSnaps are an engaging way to bring the popularity of social media tools, like Snapchat, into the classroom...

The Power of Making Books

In this session presenter Matt Glover will show how making books is the foundation for supporting young writers.  Writing is easier when students...

Using Images, Songs, Jokes to Extend a Child's Language

In this session, presenter Kathy Collins will show how teachers and caregivers can support children’s language development across the day in...

Support Young Children as Readers in Looking at Books

When young children look at books, there are many ways we can support their reading engagement, their reading comprehension, and their reading...

ILEARN Test Blueprint English Language Arts All Grades 2025-2026 | Through-Year ILEARN (Checkpoints) Assessment

These blueprints reflect the standards tested in each checkpoint for the Through-Year ILEARN (Checkpoints) Assessment pilot program.To see each grade...

25 High School English Activities You’ll Want To Try Right Away

No matter your content area or grade band, the quest for engaging and exciting lessons is never-ending. In this article from We Are Teachers,...

ILEARN Constructed Response Item Types and Scoring for English/Language Arts

This presentation covers the characteristics of different types of English/language arts (ELA) constructed response items and the methods for scoring...

Words and Worlds: Reading Aloud to Build Vocabularies

In this session, presenter Kathy Collins will share some practical ideas to help teachers and caregivers read aloud to children in ways that are both...

Revealing the Reading Brain

Michelle Elia believes that teachers are neurosurgeons, and after viewing this on-demand workshop, you will, too! Dive into this overview of the...

2024 Learning Lab Greatest Hits

It's been a fantastic year in the Indiana Learning Lab! As the 2023-24 school year wraps up, join us for a year in review full of video clips,...

Indiana Reading League Experts Explain Series: Purposeful Practice with Decodable Text

Empower your beginning readers! This workshop explores the power of decodable text, specifically designed to match phonics knowledge and:Build on...

The Science of Reading is For All Learners: Supporting Gifted and High Ability Readers

This session will provide a brief overview of reading science. We will also examine differentiated evidenced-based instruction and consider how to...

2023 Future-Focused Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts Course

The 2023 Future-Focused Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts course is designed to be an asynchronous learning opportunity for...

Road to Lifelong Literacy: The Reading Diet

Participants will learn about the varied types of reading resources - for instance audio books, manga, nonfiction, magazines, digital reading, etc....