Go the distance with Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser, authors of What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction and Nonfiction, Grades 3-8, and learn how to build comprehension and stong, independent readers.
Explore with Gravity Goldberg, author of Mindsets and Moves, what deters independent readers and what teachers can do to better support their students.
Sign up for a free trial of the Fisher & Frey Close & Critical Reading PD Resource Center. (K-12)
Learn from Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith, authors of Engagement by Design, engaging and concrete strategies that create a classroom culture rooted in relationships, clarity, and challenge.
Join Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of the bestselling Rigorous Reading, as they articulate an instructional plan to support reading instruction within K-12 classrooms.
Learn from Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke, authors of Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, how to teach students the language and behavior of getting along.
Post this chart from This Is Disciplinary Literacy to help you remember and make the connection between deeper learning and disciplinary literacy daily. (Secondary)
Use this Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2 to determine the complexity of texts and choose the best texts for your class at the right time to advance achievement.
Use this handy Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, to help you rate the text complexity of books, articles, or other texts.
In this lesson from Vocabulary Is Comprehension, students practice a strategy that asks them to look at an entire word and then use their knowledge of word parts to decode the word.
Consider this list from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, when searching for rich texts to explore with your students.