Quick & Fun Learning: Improve Literacy Skills with These 10 Games
These are some of the best writing games that require minimal or no setup time and are an excellent option for substitute teachers looking to quickly …
Tag: Literacy
The Brain-Body Connection: Adopt Cross-Curricular Approaches in Elementary PE
Teaching physical education is the only content area that educates students in all three of the learning domains – the cognitive, the affective, and…
Beyond Just Reading: Combine Project-Based Learning with Literacy
PBLWorks put together a resource with innovative and creative ways to weave PBL into Literacy programs. Below are a few ideas.
The Literacy Playbook: Integrate Literacy Into Every Period, Every Day
When students are struggling with literacy, consider teaching it schoolwide during every period of every day. This is what Valley High School implemen…
Develop Literacy Skills and Civic Competency: Plan an Identity Artifact Museum Activity
Do Something performance tasks ask students to demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and civic competency by applying their literacy and social justic…
Develop Literacy Skills and Civic Competency: Plan the ‘Writing Letters for Change’ Activity
Do Something performance tasks ask students to demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and civic competency by applying their literacy and social justic…
Historically Responsive Literacy Framework: Cultivating Holistic Learners & Citizens
In this interview, Gholdy Muhammad explains elements of his Historically Responsive Literacy Framework. It explores the questions of: How does our cur…
Differentiated Reading Instruction: A Better Practice for Ensuring Student Literacy
Create intentionally unequal reading Instruction to improve grade level proficiency for every student by implementing differentiated reading instructi…
Valley High School: Teaching Literacy Every Period, Every Day
In 2015, Valley High School’s academic outcome data showed that students needed explicit support and practice developing the literacy skills necessa…