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Reading and literacy education teachers work hard to get reading skills inculcated amongst their students so that they do not lack behind their studies. Their duties include making assessments to determine student's reading level.

These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5-8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic. Each activity addresses a range of specific literacy strategies. All 15 activities promote monitoring comprehension, synthesizing, asking questions, developing vocabulary, connecting prior knowledge to new learning, and developing a topic in writing.

Why is TurnItIn so important? Help literacy development school wide, no matter the subject area. Every teacher can be a literacy teacher with the help of one great tool: TurnItIn!

Resources and tips to help teachers incorporate digital literacy skills into content area learning.

great digital literacy workshops

These Web sites are useful sources of information about early literacy for parents and early childhood education professionals. These sites can help you to learn more about early literacy, and give you lots of ideas to enhance what you already do with your child or in your classroom. The sites are listed alphabetically.

Education Commissioner John King, David Coleman, and Kate Gerson explain every key aspect of Common Core standards in depth. By viewing this 15-part series, New York educators and administrators will learn step-by-step how to implement the Common Core for ELA/Literacy and Math in their schools and classrooms. You'll also gain a deeper understanding of the rationale behind the Common Core and what it will mean for students across our state.

information, PD, and resources for teacher librarians

wiki with descriptions and links to 21st century resources: social bookmarking, wikis, digital storytelling, creative tools, digital literacy, copyright, etc.

Reading Logs gives students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. Learning material is uploaded by teachers and is accessed online by students in their class.

strategies and links for teaching text structure

"This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support speaking, listening, reading and writing skills."

free printable worksheets, help and advice from an experienced english teacher and examiner worksheets by subject: syllables, consonant blends, suffixes, prefixes word endings, vowels, plurals, memorizing strategies, word games, word searches, etc...

animated books, allows teachers to assign reading to students

list of twitter tools and tags for educators

A common challenge for students and teachers is how to develop a great idea for a piece of writing. Too often students struggle with the process of finding inspiration for their writing. They have a vague idea for the story they hope to tell, but all too quickly it transforms into a list of events with little or no detail. The goal here is to provide our students with a process to use during the planning process. The hope is that by identifying the type of thinking required during the early phases of ideation and to focus their attention on details, that the stories our students subsequently compose will be more enjoyable to read. Hopefully, this process helps.

interactive curriculum, primarily for grades 6-12 on digital citizenship from Youtube/Google

Create a scrapbook for a character in a book