Literacy Resources From The Experts At TeachThought

4 Paradigm Shifts That Can Improve How You Teach Reading

Reflecting on my years in the classroom, a few things come to mind that I wish I had done a differently to be more effective.

Literacy / October 25, 2016 / How-To, New Teacher

The Text Reduction Strategy can improve reading comprehension by reducing a text to distill it to its essence: theme, thesis, main ideas.

Close-reading is an active process characterized by questioning, adjusting reading rate, judgement thinking, and dozens of other strategies.

My students were overjoyed when I shared this new tool that enabled them to work more interactively with their book reports.

Literacy / August 14, 2016 / New Teacher

Image or picture thinking is the innate process dyslexic thinkers use. Our educational system is just beginning to understand how to best respond.

Skim for key vocabulary that seems important, is confusing, or otherwise ‘stands out’ and mark it in a separate color.

If you’re an elementary school teacher, you know the challenges of funding a classroom. With many content areas, it can get expensive fast.

Literacy / June 10, 2016 / ela, New Teacher

Every story, Vonnegut playfully asserts, can be ‘shaped’ on a Y-axis of Good Fortune & Ill Fortune extended along the X-axis of Time.

Infographics help students decode complex story elements to better access a text. Try these ideas for using infographics to teach literature.

Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice.

Literacy / April 8, 2016 / New Teacher

3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading by Dan Henderson, Author of That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Here are

With these 20 apps for elementary reading, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books.