Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story
Every story, Vonnegut playfully asserts, can be ‘shaped’ on a Y-axis of Good Fortune & Ill Fortune extended along the X-axis of Time.
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5 Ideas For Using Infographics To Teach Literature
Infographics help students decode complex story elements to better access a text. Try these ideas for using infographics to teach literature.
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15 Of The Best Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice.
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3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading
3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading by Dan Henderson, Author of That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Here are some best practices for close reading. Below I’ve included three strategies to support your close reading lesson, and beneath these tips, I have shared a story about a close reading lesson in which a student…
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20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading
With these 20 apps for elementary reading, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books.
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Recommended Reading: Do I Really Have To Teach Reading?
“Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?” aims to make literacy instruction accessible to all content area teachers.
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What Are The Benefits Of Student Blogging?
Blogging enables you to write freely about your ideas and thoughts and share them, and use them as a means for personal growth and reflection.
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How I Use Photo Story In My Elementary Classroom
Knowing that I had to incorporate the iPads into my classroom slowly, I decided to develop one unit of the writing process digitally using Photo Story.
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What Close Reading Actually Means
The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
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BoomWriter: A Resource For Students Who Think They Hate Writing
BoomWriter is a free platform for group writing that engages students in collaborative projects for all subject areas to help them improve their writing.
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A Definition Of Web Literacy (And How Students Can Benefit)
Web literacy touches on a variety of competencies but allows students to do one essential thing: meaningfully engage on the Internet.
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What To Read Next: 100 Timeless Books, Poems, And Essays
What should you read next? Consider Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ or Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Player Piano.’
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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text
In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
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5 Anchors For Using Technology To Teach Reading
Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
