Videos

Steve Graham offers examples of writing across the curriculum.

Hesse shares some “low stakes” ways that content area teachers can bring writing into their classrooms every week.

Watch this short video to learn how you can use multimedia to help support your instruction in social studies and history.

Kids and volunteers engage in a summer reading program developed by The Reading Connection.

In Salt Lake City, teacher Margaret Barnes uses a framework called CORI (Concept Oriented Reading Instruction) to teach reading comprehension skills to second and third graders.

Using think-pair-share in the classroom creates a collaborative learning environment where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. 

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic and become the “expert.” 

A concept sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used to familiarize students with the vocabulary of a new topic or book.

List-group-label is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy that helps develop categorization skills, build background knowledge, activate critical thinking, and grow vocabulary. Watch list-group-label in action.

Dr. Sylvia Vardell talks about the relationship between poetry and science, which is at the heart of The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science.