Articles Tagged with “Middle School”
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Executive Functions and Literacy Skills in the Classroom
Understanding and increasing our students' ability to attend to academic tasks
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Serving Language Learners From an Asset-Based Lens
Setting the Stage for Language Learner Success Through an Asset-Based Lens
Text Complexity is…well…complex!
Shifting perspectives about high-interest, low-level texts.
Challenging the Status Quo
How Chat GPT Can be the Key to Achieving Educational Equity
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High-Quality Curriculum Raised the Bar, But Not High Enough
What we miss when we narrowly define what “high-quality” means in instructional materials
Research-based AND Responsive
Putting the science of reading to work for the kids in front of you
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Constantly Shifting Practice
How the Shifts of the Common Core changed instruction and still missed the mark
Developing Language and Literacy With Children’s Literature and Through the Lens of a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Why children’s literature fosters a culturally sustaining pedagogy
We’ve Come a Long Way, Fast
How Technology is Shaping the Modern Classroom in Unseen Ways
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Small Pivots to Access Complex Text Across the Curriculum
Reading strategies that help secondary students in all content areas
Improving Accessibility for All Students
Remote Learning Tips and Tricks
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Enhancing Remote Learning and Student Engagement With Online Tools
Five tools to make virtual learning more social for students
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Knowledge-Building Model Lessons for Middle and High School
Rethinking how we define “text” to engage older students and accelerate learning
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What Principles Must Underlie Successful Personalized Learning?
What educators should consider when selecting or using personalized learning approaches to accelerate literacy outcomes
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Why Teaching Justice Through Reading & Writing Cannot Wait
How teachers can enact change and combat racism through purposeful discussions and literary curricula
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You Have a List of Culturally Diverse Texts. Now What?
Guidance on facilitating classroom lessons and discussions that push student thinking
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Class and Family Book Tasting During Distance Learning
Designing reading activities to engage K-12 students at home
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Top 5 Resources for Learning Online
Free, standards-aligned resources to facilitate remote learning
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How Does Education Research Relate to My Practice?
Is your reading program working? What can you do to improve it?
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For the Love of Learning
How a focus on building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction can enrich ELA instruction and engage learners
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What Makes a High-Quality Diverse Text and How to Get These Texts Into Your Classroom
Resources and guidance for educators
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A New Way to Consider Cognitive Demand in ELA Assessments
A Framework for Text Complexity in ELA and Reading
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Wit & Wisdom: Implementation Dos and Don’ts
Lessons learned from teachers who've implemented the curriculum
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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing
Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?
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Doing Better: Aligned Instructional Practice
An overview of the Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools
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Building A Culturally Responsive Classroom
Why building a culturally responsive classroom matters for the success of ALL students
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Making the Connection Between Materials and Instruction
Why instructional practice should be at the heart of all instructional materials decisions
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Seeing College- and Career-Ready Standards through Instruction
Exploring the updates to the Instructional Practice Guide
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Creating and Sequencing Text-Dependent Questions to Support English Language Learners
Strategic selection and organization of questions can be a scaffold that helps English learners grapple with highly complex questions.
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Considering Reading Instruction with the End in Mind
Meet students not only where they are, but also where they're going.
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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age
How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.
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To Write or Not to Write? There is No Question! Part 2
Activities to support the connection between reading and writing
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Using Curriculum to Send Essential Messages to Students
How Wit & Wisdom Supports English Language Learners
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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs
Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content
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Creating Student Empowerment Through Your Garden-Variety Graphic Organizer
How I use graphic organizers in my classroom to promote student independence
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A Five-Course Meal Complete with Strategies for Assessment
Concrete strategies to help classroom educators get involved with assessment design
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Designing Effective Homework
Best practices for creating homework that raises student achievement
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High-impact strategies for teaching writing with evidence at the high school level
An interdisciplinary PLC develops common strategies and rubrics to support student writing.
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The Instructional Practice Toolkit: An Introduction
Learn how the Instructional Practice Toolkit can help teachers make connections between planning, instruction, and student outcomes.
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Assessing Grammar and Language Convention Skills
New guidance explains how to assess writing skills through embedded-error passages and multiple-choice items
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Creating a Feedback Culture
Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals
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Blended Learning: The Station Rotation Model
Find out how a blended learning station-focused model can help you differentiate instruction and give ALL students the support they need to tackle grade-level work
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Looking At and Learning From Student Work, Part Two: Now What?
An 8th grade teacher models the process of using writing analysis checklists to make plans for future writing instruction
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Looking at, and Learning from, Student Writing
An introduction to the Vermont Writing Collaborative's Writing Checklists
