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Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.

Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor

Student reading

Support students with these seven tips to maximize middle school and high school reading intervention and help your students become better readers.

Shelley Branine
Instructional Coach, HMH

How to write a rap

Teach your students how to write a rap with Dr. Chris Emdin using this rap lesson plan, complete with a writing template, rubric, and teacher guide.

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Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore how great things can happen when we work together.

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This article answers the question, what is oral reading fluency? It provides fluency teaching strategies after defining fluency and explaining why it’s important.

Dr. Amy Endo
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Language & Literacy

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Help your middle schoolers sharpen their writing and critical thinking skills with activities including a poetry scavenger hunt and an opportunity for them to invent a board game.

Student reading

Sharpen your writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources for Grades 6-8, including a poetry scavenger hunt.

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High schoolers can sharpen their writing skills with activities including a reflective essay on the past school year and a playlist for a book they read.

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Have middle schoolers identify figurative language, start a dialectical journal, and respond to daily dinner prompts.

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Have high schoolers analyze a poem, summarize an informational text, and write effective arguments with this week's downloadables activities.

Small-Group Reading Activities and Lesson Ideas Hero

Planning small-group reading activities and lesson ideas doesn’t have to be complicated; with thoughtful preparation and the right resources, it can be a simple process.

Danielle Bouchard
Shaped Contributor

How Do You Screen For Dyslexia In Schools

Answer a key question as an educator—how do you screen for dyslexia?—by following six key steps. Testing for dyslexia in schools is important to identify at-risk students.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Have middle schoolers create a Story Spine, find inspiration in everyday objects, and write an advice column.

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High schoolers can sharpen their writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources.

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Teach students about metaphors and have them write fiction stories with these free downloadable activities for middle schoolers.

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For this week's activities, students can create how-to videos, analyze media messages, and respond to summer writing prompts.

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Teaching reading online during the pandemic can be challenging. Learn how to teach reading virtually with these tips from a first-grade teacher.

Katie Risolo Radovich
First-Grade Teacher

WF2091474 Shaped 2024 Blog Post Vocabulary Intervention Strategies hero

Implement these evidence-based vocabulary intervention strategies and activities to support students in building vocabulary knowledge.

Amber Silverman
Shaped Contributor