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Back to School Night Checklist

After the flurry of first-week activity is behind you, it's time to start planning ahead for the next event-Back-to-School Night. This is your opportunity to connect with parents, outline plans and policies, and demonstrate your enthusiasm about teaching. Find countdown checklists that help teachers prepare for back-to-school night-from the week before to follow-up afterwards.

Reading & Writing

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Teaching with the Traits of Writing

The trait model is more than an approach to assessing and teaching writing. As Ruth Culham explains in her book/DVD guide Inside the Writing Traits Classroom, the traits are also a vocabulary teachers use to describe their vision of what good writing - any kind of writing - looks like.

Classroom Management

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Classroom Management in a Reading Workshop

During this reading workshop, students are reading self-selected books independently. While conferring with individuals, conducting guided reading groups or strategy lessons, facilitating book clubs, it is important that clear routines and procedures in place to keep independent readers on task and truly engaged in their reading.

Integrating Technology

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Using Technology to Support Literacy

Students love to read and listen to stories as a way to learn about the world and how it works. In this age of multimedia, a new kind of storytelling has emerged. Encouraging students to use technology as a tool to tell their stories is a great way to help them practice grammar, expand their vocabulary, and share their ideas with others.

Scholastic Professional

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The Complete 4 for Literacy

View this 6-part Scholastic Professional Author interview where author, Pam Allyn, discusses the use of four types of units of study in her book-strategy, process, genre, and conventions-to integrate reading and writing.

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Research and Recess

Read Up!
Books, Research & Literacy

Scholastic's Chief Academic Officer, Francie Alexander, keeps you updated on literacy research and provides information on new trends to keep you excited about teaching.

Grade-Level Teacher Advisors
Read weekly blog posts and view photos for teaching tips and strategies for your grade level.
Education Focus
Instructional specialists from around the country blog about the latest technology, new research, best practices and strategies you can use in your classroom.