Literacy Posts
How To Create An Effective Classroom Library
There are specific, research-based guidelines toward which you should aim when building your classroom library.
What’s The Writing Process?
The writing process is a sequence of strategies to plan, write, and ultimately publish a polished, accurate, well-organized piece of writing.
Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their…
What Are Literature Circles?
Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).
One Way To Teach The Writing Process
By demystifying the writing process through modeling, teachers demonstrate what writing looks like in all of its unedited, imperfect glory.
It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The…
Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of…
SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For…
SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
What Is A Metaphor? Definition, Examples, And Types
A metaphor is a literary device (or figure of speech) that makes a comparison between two ‘things’ without the comparison being…
