Literacy Resources From The Experts At TeachThought

Want To Know How Students Feel When They Read Complex Texts?

What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?

Perhaps it’s time to explore a radical but common sense notion: maybe we don’t understand how reading comprehension develops over time.

Literacy / January 24, 2015

Editing Robert Burns For The 21st Century by Dr. Pauline Mackay, Lecturer in Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow Here at the

Literacy / December 7, 2014 / ela, Terry Heick

Students are conditioned to believe that someone beyond their family or teacher will be automatically and genuinely interested in their ideas.

Literacy / November 9, 2014 / Random, Terry Heick

Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.

Literacy / November 7, 2014 / Random

Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.

Blogging offers a fun, casual and accessible way for students to develop, hone and perfect writing skills without making it seem like work.

Literacy, Technology / October 7, 2014

3 Ways to Bring Live Blogging To The Classroom by Heather Edick Live blogging is a blogging technique used often

I thought it might be useful to share a reading list that might help students begin to grapple and make sense of race relations in the US.

Literacy / July 24, 2014

Texting, Tweeting, Speaking: Teaching Oral Communication Skills by Erik Palmer “I just watched our seniors present their capstone projects. They

Citing social media in scholary writing? For twitter: @Username. “Full text of tweet.” Twitter, Day month year posted, time posted, URL.