Effective Literacy Lessons
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.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Teaching Consonant Digraphs
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
This decoding skill helps students read, understand, and independently spell words.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Understanding Compound Words Through Their Two Word Parts
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Teach students to read and understand a compound word by identifying the two words that make it.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Constructing an Argumentative Claim
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Students learn to write a debatable, focused, and clear claim with this instructional approach.
Effective Literacy Lesson: Making and Evaluating Predictions to Support Comprehension
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
An instructional sequence shows how to help students integrate new info with their mental representation of the text.