Familias y cuidadores: ustedes tienen un papel importante en el aprendizaje del lenguaje de sus niños. Los niños pueden fortalecer su lenguaje todos los días, haciendo y respondiendo preguntas sobre una historia. En esta actividad, usted le pedirá a su niño o niña que hable sobre lo que lee, escucha o sabe sobre una historia.

Familias y cuidadores: ustedes tienen un papel importante en el aprendizaje del lenguaje de sus niños. Los niños pueden fortalecer su lenguaje todos los días, haciendo y respondiendo preguntas sobre un tema o un texto informativo. En esta actividad, usted le pedirá a su niño o niña que hable sobre lo que lee, escucha o sabe sobre un tema o un texto informativo.

Familias y cuidadores: ustedes tienen un papel importante en el aprendizaje del lenguaje de sus niños. Los niños pueden aprender palabras nuevas todos los días escuchando, hablando, escribiendo y dibujando. El propósito de esta actividad es ayudar a los niños a utilizar textos informativos, haciendo que aprendan y practiquen usando un pequeño conjunto de palabras nuevas del texto. Usted apoyará a su niño o niña mientras lee, habla, dibuja, juega o escribe las nuevas palabras.

Familias y cuidadores: ustedes tienen un papel importante en el aprendizaje del lenguaje de sus niños. Los niños pueden desarrollar su vocabulario aprendiendo y practicando nuevas palabras durante las tareas cotidianas, por ejemplo, al preparar una comida. En esta actividad, usted preparará una comida con su niño o niña, enfocándose en el proceso y las palabras nuevas y ayudándolos a escribir la receta.

With so many people getting their news from their social media newsfeed, how can they evaluate what is good and what might be fake? With the help of a Youtube video on the subject, student do some evaluating. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

In this lesson, students will learn about a topic in three different text formats. They will then evaluate each format to determine the pros and cons. Students will also assess the credibility of each text.

In this lesson, students will learn about a topic in three different text formats. They will then evaluate each format to determine the pros and cons. Students will also assess the credibility of each text.

Students analyze stylistic choices and grammar use in authentic writing, focusing on the use of the semicolon in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

This resource from CommonLit offers resources based on the work of American writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker from the short story "Everyday Use." To support student's understanding of the themes in the story, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style.

Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning-Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.

A site where busy teachers can go to find current, relevant, meaningful and ready-to-go lessons, activities and resources that fit their classroom structure and meet national and state standards.

Assessment for learning plays a critical role in informing and driving literacy instruction. A comprehensive assessment system allows educators to adjust instruction to meet the specific needs of students, which is critical for students in terms of both the prevention of reading difficulties and intervention to remediate skill gaps. Use the infographic to help understand how and when to use universal screeners, diagnostic assessments, progress monitoring, and outcome evaluation to guide the literacy instruction and intervention.

Research provides insight into specific instructional strategies that should be used in every classroom to support elementary English learner students in developing both English language skills and academic content. This infographic is a quick reference to these evidence-based practices that can be used daily by elementary classroom teachers to support effective instruction for their English learner students

Teacher understanding of effective evidence-based practices is vital for supporting student achievement and closing achievement gaps. While many alternative pathway teachers know what content they must teach, many have never had classes on how to teach the content using evidence-based practices. This infographic is a quick reference guide containing evidence-based practices that can impact learning that teachers can use daily to support effective instruction.

This lesson from CommonLit features English writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) "A Room of One's Own." In this piece, Woolf discusses how the experiences of women pursuing artistic passions have differed from those of men. Through this lesson, students will explore word choice, tone, and figurative language and how these elements contribute to Woolf's point of view. A number of paired texts on similar themes, writing style, and point of view are provided to give students options to compare and contrast various texts.

The literacy brief from the International Literacy Association summarizes key points from research that will help teachers explain phonics to noneducators. The brief includes information about phonics for emerging
readers, phonological awareness, the layers of writing, word study instruction, approaches to teaching phonics, and teaching English learners. The references include research that supports the ideas presented and phonics resources that you can use and share with others.

The science of reading has established that explicit instruction is associated with beneficial outcomes for students and may be the secret sauce of instructional success. In this article, Vaughn and Fletcher examine and explain the five key components of effective explicit instruction. They include: segmenting complex skills into manageable tasks; modeling or thinking aloud to address the important features of the content; promoting successful engagement using faded supports and prompts; providing feedback, and creating purposeful practice opportunities.

Students create text sets on a high interest topic and use the texts to practice three strategies for reading for information.

Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.