Literacy
Literacy is the ability to make sense of or use 'something.' From books to technology, research to writing, literacy is the foundation of learning.
10 Dos & Don’ts For Teaching Vocabulary In Any Content Area
10 Dos & Don'ts For Teaching Vocabulary In Any Content Area by TeachThought Staff With the Common Core adoption in the United States, teaching vocabulary is no longer strictly the...
Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Don't Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why by Terry Heick Preface: I'm writing under the assumption that the 'child' in question has access to some form of mobile...
How To Take Cornell Notes
How To Take Cornell Notes Originally published in 2015; updated in October 2018 Form: Cornell Notes Purpose: The purpose of Cornell Notes is to distill complex text, arguments, etc. into a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 characteristic of the nationwide...
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...
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, digital...
16 Amazing Libraries For Bibliophiles
The Library of Denmark/Copenhagen; image attribution flickr user nelsonl 16 Amazing Libraries For Bibliophiles by TeachThought Staff Want to see some amazing libraries? The YouTube channel...
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...
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
