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Station Rotation Model (K-5; ELA and Math focus) with Dr. Catlin Tucker

This session will focus on how elementary teachers can use the station rotation model in their ELA and math blocks to create more opportunities to...

Brisk Teaching

Brisk Teaching is a free AI Chrome extension that helps educators easily adjust the reading levels of articles through an integration with Google...

News in Slow

With simplified news articles with audio recordings, News in Slow is ideal for practicing reading and listening skills with current topics. Available...

Accountable Talk Language Stems and Features

Accountable talk in the classroom involves the kinds of discussions that move learning forward by promoting the use of academic language, encouraging...

Thinking Maps: The Building Blocks of Brain-Based Learning

Thinking maps are meant to be used across all grades and content areas as scaffolds for the critical thinking, problem-solving, comprehension, and...

Vocabulary Graphic Organizers and Word Maps

No matter how educators choose to develop students’ tier two and tier three vocabulary, what is important is that students are receiving targeted...

Education Endowment Foundation for Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools

According to the Education Endowment Foundation, through their synthesis of international educational research, these seven evidence-based...

Improving Literacy in Seconday Schools Self-Assessment

The Education Endowment Foundation has developed a self-assessment tool for this purpose. Combining this self-assessment tool with other means of...

NGSS Venn Diagram for Commonalities Among the Practices

This Venn Diagram illustrates some of the commonalities regarding literacy skills across and among three of the core content areas.This resource was...

Building Vocabulary and Conceptual Knowledge Using the Frayer Model

Using the Frayer model, teachers are able to intentionally incorporate the four elements of vocabulary instruction for tier two and tier three terms:...

Authentic Literacy Lesson: The Great Thanksgiving Listen

Part II of Reading and Writing for Real: Teach your students the power of literacy via interviewing and listening skills, outlined in the Indiana...

How Do Early Language Experiences Contribute to a Child’s Ability to Read?

In the video, from the National Center on Improving Literacy, the speaker explains how a child's ability to read is greatly influenced by their...

Imagination Library Family Resources - All Ages

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Imagination Library Family Resources for Children Born in 2022

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Imagination Library Family Resources for Children Born in 2021

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Imagination Library Family Resources for Children Born in 2020

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Imagination Library Family Resources for Children Born in 2019

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Imagination Library Family Resources for Children Born in 2023

Each month, Imagination Library mails participating children a free book. To support a love of reading and increase enjoyment, these family guides...

Word Recognition: Phoneme/Grapheme Knowledge and Orthographic Mapping Part II

The decoding strand of the reading rope addresses how readers recognize words. The alphabetic principle states letters and letter patterns...

The Knowledge Gap: What It Is and How to Narrow It

This presentation, facilitated by Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap, will explain why it’s important to start building knowledge early...