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Student-Centered Literacy

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Monika Moorman September 24, 2019

Strategies to Support Questioning and Discussion in a Literacy Classroom

Are you creating meaningful and engaging opportunities for students to actively interact with text? Follow these literacy strategies to enable students to dig deeper and think more critically....
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BetterLesson September 17, 2019

Unpacking Student-Centered Instruction for Literacy

Discover how Master Teachers tackle student-centered literacy challenges in their classrooms....
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BetterLesson May 9, 2019

100 Literacy Teaching Strategies Developed with Newsela

Learn about our Newsela Master Teacher project featuring literacy-specific content across all grades and subject areas....
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Kelly Kennefick October 16, 2018

Designing a Student-Centered Classroom

Read three easy steps you can take to develop a student-centered classroom....
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Kate Findley July 24, 2018

How to Use Empathy to Address Plagiarism

Read how to use social-emotional learning to address plagiarism and how to implement these strategies in the classroom. ...
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Katie Fortin June 12, 2018

Using Seesaw to Expand the Walls of the Classroom

Read how a kindergarten teacher worked with her BetterLesson coach to bring the French language into students’ homes and the world around them....
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Valerie Librizzi, John Wesley Pope April 23, 2018

Five Things I Learned While Working with a PD Coach

Read an interview to see how one teacher used instructional coaching to build his students’ literacy skills in his agriculture classes....
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Natalee Hawks April 10, 2018

Tech Supports for Authentic Language Development

Explore tech tips and tools to support all students with academic language....
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Afrika Afeni Mills, Monica Washington April 4, 2018

Required Reading Reconsidered

Read strategies for diversifying reading across the curriculum. ...
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