Teachers can give students opportunities for close reading through exploration of books paired with visual media.

After sharing some thoughts around To Kill a Mockingbird last week, I got some really great feedback about whether or not the book was still worth teaching. Not for reasons I outright disagreed ...

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Middle-school teachers in Australia want to teach text-messaging as part of their language-arts curriculum. Students at Sahuarita High School were asked recently what they thought about teaching ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...