Teach and Practice Writing Skills With a Writing Prompt Guide
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Introducing the new IRRC resource to help students, teachers, and caregivers better understand and work with effective writing prompts.
Find Books for Teens for Use at School or at Home With a Young Adult Literature Guide
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Learn how the guide can help you plan reading and learning opportunities for your teens.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Paired Oral Reading
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Children can work on reading fluency and comprehension while reading along with a caregiver.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Engaging Preschool and Kindergarten-Aged children in Literacy-Focused Guided Play
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Caregivers can implement three key elements to help grow literacy and pre-literacy skills.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Using a K-W-L Chart to Activate Background Knowledge
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Use this approach to build knowledge about a topic while reading a book at home.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Use of Assistive Technology
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Apps and extensions can help children who are struggling at home with reading and writing tasks.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Identifying Themes in Literary Text
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Families can help their adolescents practice this comprehension skill as they look for clues in the text.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Educational Video Programming and Literacy Learning
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Three tips to keep in mind while watching TV as a home learning activity.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Daily Book Study for Teens
Monday, April 20, 2020
Read a young adult novel with us and complete daily assignments to continue learning from home!
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Writing an Objective Summary
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Teach and practice this high-leverage skill at home with the help of our resource.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Retelling a Story Using a Graphic Organizer
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Children can practice their comprehension skills using this approach and our included graphic organizer.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Weekly Writing Prompts for Children
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Have your children practice their writing skills at home with our writing prompts in English and Spanish!
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning: Selecting Texts for Standards-Aligned Practice
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Three areas to consider when picking a text and a listing of websites with free texts to read.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Improving Comprehension Through Story Mapping
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Teach middle school students to use a story map graphic organizer when reading a literary text.
Technically Speaking: Understanding and Quantifying the Correlation of Two Reading Measures
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Correlation and its limitations are explained in easy-to-understand language.