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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 resource from Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners focuses on an opening engagement as well as on an event that allows families to examine teachers' literacy knowledge in comparison to their own literacy experiences.

Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of this Voices from the Middle article (May 2008), provide examples of how middle school teachers can engage students in authentic reading comprehension instruction that results in transfer of skills.

When we ask our students what is getting in the way of reading for them and when we act on their advice, we move closer to overcoming the obstacles that get in the way of reading, says Janet Allen. In this article from Language Arts (March 2003), she describes how a survey of young...

All teachers are not teachers of reading, but all teachers use language as part of the learning process.  This Web seminar session focuses on the role that language plays in learning and...

Sarah Brown Wessling walks us through her thought process as she talks about the shifts she is making in her teaching as a result of the Common Core State Standards. Shifts that she addresses include the opportunity to examine her teaching practices and what she teaches with her colleagues. This...

This resource describes how to support ELA and other subject-area teachers as they think about why disciplinary literacy teaching is important and how to enact it in robust ways. The authors argue that it is critical for the improvement of students’ academic literacy development and...

The Common Core State Standards are driving the profession toward more cross-disciplinary teaching. The standards themselves address the what of curriculum rather than the how, but they do offer text exemplars for different grade levels. While some find the exemplars too difficult, others see...

High school teacher C. Lynn Jacobs noted that the long-term English language learners in her class had improved in reading comprehension but still lacked writing skills. Inspired by a state humanities project, she worked with the students to publish a collection of stories and poems. Writing...

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...

We know that for many students, film is much more readily accessible than print because of  the visual nature and immediacy of the medium, but the very things that films do for us, effective readers of literature  have to do for themselves.  With that similarity in mind, this...