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Teaching Unscripted

A Heinemann blog for curious educators.

Keene: 3 Craft Moves

Ellin Keene provides three effective instructional moves in literacy instruction for crafting sessions that integrate reading and writing.

Fostering Community Through Collaborative Projects

Collaborative writing projects can encourage students to work together and share ideas while developing their skills. Learn more from Georgia Heard.

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Heinemann author Andrea Honigsfeld discusses her new book.

Honigsfeld Release Blog

Growing Language and Literacy, 6-12 is now available! Watch Andrea Honigsfeld discuss how this can be a go-to text for any teacher.

Matific's Adaptive Learning Engine

Prioritizing personalized learning experiences, Matific’s adaptive technology creates individualized learning pathways for each student through the thousands of standards-based math activities.

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Wille Carver and Liz Prather explore how sharing personal narratives can pave the path to healing and advocacy.

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Try some of these easy ways to help empower your readers during reading workshop.

Matific 2024 NTL Effective Blog

Here are three effective ways schools can implement Matific’s rigorous pedagogy designed by educational experts from leading universities.

Making History Relevant for Students

Teaching Beyond the Timeline is now available! Watch the authors discuss how teaching thematically allows students to connect current events to their lives.

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China Harvey and Lisa Herzig discuss their new book, Teaching Beyond the Timeline.

Effective Literacy Instruction

Saxon® Reading Foundations’ approach to teaching phonics and spelling concepts is grounded in foundational research from the science of reading and cognitive science.

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Connecting current events to history through thematic teaching increases student engagement. China Harvey and Lisa Herzig offer some tips.

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David Rockower and Liz Prather discuss how students explore what matters to them through writing.

Comprehension and Building Knowledge

As kids learn about and comprehend the world, their comprehension is strengthened by existing and new knowledge. When kids build their knowledge store, it’s thinking and learning intensive.

Student Talk and Collaboration

Center student voices through collaboration. Learn about a variety of tools that enable everyone to be included.

Your Guide to Teaching During an Election Year

With another historic election on the horizon, authors of The Civically Engaged Classroom offer a free guide for navigating teaching during this time.

Tips for Writing Minilessons

Writing workshop minilessons are meant as intervals for explicit, brief instruction in skills and strategies that then become part of a writer’s ongoing repertoire.

The Art of Noticing Silences

The world is loud. Grant Faulkner, coauthor with Kim Culbertson of 100-Word Stories, makes a case for turning the volume off.