12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom
12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom contributed by Lisa Tanner Are you preparing your students to succeed in this high-tech world? As more media moves to the internet, digital...
View ArticleHow We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty
How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty by Lynette Guastaferro, Executive Director at Teaching Matters How did we create a reading program for students with unique needs? Good...
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This Is The Future And Reading Is Different Than You Remember
This Is The Future And Reading Is Different Than You Remember by Terry Heick If one thing changes, everything changes. Reading, for example—it has changed because writing has changed. Writing has...
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What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read by Terry Heick When students say they ‘don’t like reading,’ the first thing I do is skip the preaching and try to relate–to meet them where...
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What Is The Relationship Between Reading And Writing? It’s Linear
What Is The Relationship Between Reading And Writing? It’s Linear. How Can Schools Produce Better Readers? Write Twice As Much With 1/2 The Rules contributed by Dennis Pierce In a wide-ranging...
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5 Dimensions Of Critical Digital Literacy: A Framework
5 Dimensions Of Critical Digital Literacy: A Framework by TeachThought Staff Digital Literacy is increasingly important in an age where many students read as much on screens as they do from books. In...
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A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time
A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time by Terry Heick Writing is difficult to teach, if for no other reason than it is also difficult to do. Put simply, writing is the...
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Why Students Should Read
Why Students Should Read by Terry Heick This post has been updated from a previous post Lately, there’s something about reading that’s bothering me about how we teach reading and writing. I’ve written...
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Why Do I Want To Become A Teacher? To Give The Gift Of Literacy
Why Do I Want To Become A Teacher? To Give The Gift Of Literacy by Alexas Worth, Junior at Indiana University Southeast I have wanted to be an English-Language Arts arts teacher since I was in 7th...
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Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book by Terry Heick You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much more different. On the surface...
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21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern...
A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology by Terry Heick Why do we need a framework? Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of...
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What English Sounds Like To Non-English Speakers
What Does English Sound Like To Non-English Speakers? by Terry Heick When someone hears a language they’re not familiar, it sounds–well, weird. I’m not a neuroscientist, nor am I a linguist, so this...
View Article16 Amazing Libraries For Bibliophiles
16 Amazing Libraries For Bibliophiles by TeachThought Staff Want to see some amazing libraries? The YouTube channel ‘Believe That’ explores them in a video that, while not incredibly detailed and...
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19 Reading Response Questions That Work With Most Texts
19 Reading Response Questions For Self-Guided Response by Terry Heick Though I’ve been busy with TeachThought for the last four years, my original ‘trade’ was teaching English (literature, writing,...
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Book: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
Book: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by TeachThought Staff Summary “Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up...
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The Highest Literacy Is Understanding The Value Of A Text
The Highest Literacy Is Understanding The Value Of A Text contributed by Dr. Michael Ben-Chaim Students’ underachievement in reading comprehension has become a chronic, habitual, and well-documented...
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10 Ways To Use ReadWorks In The Classroom
10 Ways To Use ReadWorks In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve been using ReadWorks recently to grow literacy skills of readers from elementary school to high school. There are...
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How To Help Students Find More Time To Read
How To Help Students Find More Time To Read by TeachThought Staff How can you find more time to read? Better yet, how can you help students find more time to read? Below, I’ve collected a few...
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How I Helped My Students Assess Their Own Writing
How I Helped My Students Assess Their Own Writing contributed by Peg Grafwallner, M.Ed. As the School Support Teacher/Reading Specialist of a large urban high school, I create, develop, implement and...
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How To Cite A Tweet: MLA Style
How To Cite A Tweet: MLA Style by TeachThought Staff How do you cite a tweet MLA Style? First, let’s clarify that while it’s not exactly an Oxford library and therefore may not be the first place you...
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