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This article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013) provides an overview of the Common Core text exemplars and gives examples of ways teachers can group text exemplars and other trade books in ways that will support middle graders’ understanding of complex texts.

This article from English Journal describes how two math teachers, two English teachers, and 86 students bridged cultural divides between mathematics and English in urban Massachusetts and rural Iowa.

In this Voices from the Middle article, former social studies teacher and current teacher educator Donna E. Alvermann poses the question, What are some principled practices for engaging students’ literacy learning at the middle level, especially in content area classes where...

Math teacher Lisa Berger uses this article in English Journal (May 2013) to explain some of the ways in which mathematical language is distinct from everyday language. She suggests that English language arts teachers may find it helpful to team with mathematics teachers to provide...

Until now “assign, define, and test” has been the default strategy for teaching vocabulary in many classrooms. Unfortunately that will not close the word gap that learners experience. In this ...

Now, more than ever, teachers and administrators are hungry for clear direction on how to handle the awkward “flashpoint” issues that arise when grading against standards.  Being sensitive to students’ readiness levels, learning preferences, and designations while...

This collection of resources provides multiple tools and strategies for developing literacy across the content areas. Doug Fisher and colleagues lead a web-seminar about building a schoolwide culture focused on literacy across the content areas where multiple instructional strategies are...

This excerpt from Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy by Cathy Fleischer (NCTE, 2010) gives a brief background on literacy,  the challenges that adolescents face in reading and writing, and the ways in which teachers and parents...

In this chapter from On Teacher Inquiry, Diane Waff explores how her work as a teacher researcher was influenced by participation in three different teacher inquiry communities—a K–12 community focused on multicultural education, a secondary school community focused on...

Teacher Elizabeth Edmondson describes how she used a wiki – a user-editable website – to facilitate a digital literature circle community. The activities and assessments she describes tap students' digital literacy skills and their desire for peer interaction, and would be...

Through the creation of a digital story, urban high school students gain confidence and a new understanding of literacy. In this article,  Sara B. Kajder offers a step-by-step plan for replicating this project, grounded in sound theory and research about how adolescents expand their...

This chapter from Secondary School Literacy: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice (NCTE, 2007) shows how change is required in our conception of reading comprehension. New online reading comprehension skills and strategies will be required as, increasingly, our reading worlds move to the...

Intervention programs offer instruction and activities beyond those found in regular curriculum. One such intervention program aimed at improving literacy for ninth-grade students reading at or below the fifth-grade level is examined in this chapter from Teaching Reading in High School...

In an attempt to teach vocabulary more effectively, particularly to her eighth-grade English language learners who were past the newcomer stage but not yet proficient, this educator developed some techniques that link vocabulary to images and then to student's everyday lives, and that...