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Text Complexity is…well…complex!

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To Teach the Truth

Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

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Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

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Classroom Strategies

About the topic

Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

See all posts

most recent articles

Serving Language Learners From an Asset-Based Lens

Using Math Milestones to Activate Student Agency

Students Know Themselves Best

Tools and Resources

About the topic

Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

See all posts

most recent articles

Text Complexity is…well…complex!

Challenging the Status Quo

Top Posts of 2022

Materials Adaptation

About the topic

Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

See all posts

most recent articles

To Teach the Truth

Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

Standards-Alignment Information

About the topic

Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

See all posts

most recent articles

Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Research and Reflections

About the topic

Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

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most recent articles

High-Quality Curriculum Raised the Bar, But Not High Enough

Research-based AND Responsive

Top Posts of 2022

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Foundational Literacy Skills

Part 1

At the Foundation of Foundational Skills: Structured Phonics

Learn how structured phonics instruction is critical to literacy development and a necessary part of an ELA curriculum
03/17/17, Carey Swanson
Part 2

Supporting Our Youngest Readers: Teaching the Skills of Reading

Why using decodable readers can be powerful
01/12/18, Carey Swanson
Part 3

Adding Fun to Your Phonics Block

Incorporating strategies to make phonics time the best time of day
02/02/18, Christina Cotter
Part 4

How much time do you need to create a foundation for literacy?

One coach’s reflection on increasing the foundational skills block
03/21/18, Lauren Hurley Wilson

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