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Uplifting pearls of wisdom are found in many middle grade and young adult novels. Get inspired by their stories, characters, and journeys!

Celebrate Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans’ history, culture, and achievements in this collection of fiction and non-fiction novels.

The population of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools is growing quickly. This section includes information on effective ways to teach ELL...

Here you can find diverse fiction and nonfiction books, meet some of your favorite middle-grade and YA authors, dig into our book discussion guides, or explore...

Told with verve and humor, Newbery-winner Sid Fleischman recalls his early years in San Diego during the Depression, reveals how he became captivated by magic,...

Are you looking for a low-key way to assess what students have learned? Exit slips give you insight into how students are making sense of what they are...

Hena Khan (Amina’s Voice)

The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This...

Get the basics on effective practices in teaching key areas of literacy development for middle and high school students.

Especially helpful when using informational text, possible sentences is a strategy that build students’ enthusiasm for a new reading.

“For adolescents, literacy is more than reading and writing. It involves purposeful social and cognitive processes. It helps individuals discover ideas and...

The world needs diverse books. Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang says that every kid needs a book that is a mirror and a book that is a window.

Power Notes help students differentiate between main ideas and details while learning and writing, using a hierarchical structure that clarifies how ideas are...

Students will need advanced literacy skills — the ability to understand and analyze a variety of texts and to write and communicate persuasively — to...

What does research have to say about working on reading fluency development with older students? Is it appropriate for secondary teachers to spend...

AdLit offers lots of articles, expert Q&A, video, research and reports, and additional resources that provide research-based information for educators,...

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, led the nation through its darkest hour — the Civil War. Find out about Lincoln’s childhood on a...

Drama abounds in what might have happened if Austin Gollaher had not pulled the young Abraham Lincoln from a swollen Kentucky creek that day in 1816. This...

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time. ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Fluency is the ability to read a text correctly and quickly. Learn which strategies are recommended to improve students’ fluency and how to incorporate these...

Wendy Wan-Long Shang (The Great Wall of Lucy Wu)

List-Group-Label is an interactive strategy that engages students in developing their vocabulary and connections between words and ideas. It helps students...

All content teachers need to know about middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) literature.

The RAFT strategy encourages students to write creatively, consider a topic from a different perspective, and to gain practice writing for different audiences.

Here you’ll find multimedia resources to help you improve teaching and learning in your classrooms. We offer a classroom strategy library, video modules...

Do your students have trouble answering questions? Are inferential and critical level questions particularly difficult for them to answer? If so, the QAR...

Jack’s best friends decide that the best way to get him a prom date is to put an ad in the paper. Now Jack has to evaluate all the prospects. If there were a...

How do you help students become better at summarizing what they read and be more aware of when they are or are not understanding what they read? Paragraph...

Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born child with albinism of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has...