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Use this checklist from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-5, to assess your young students’ early understanding of the concepts of print. 

Use this sample assessment from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12, to test students’ understanding of literary devices.

Use these think aloud sentence starters from Think Big with Think Alouds, Grades K-5, to guide students to deeper understanding and comprehension by thinking aloud. 

This lesson from Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes dives into the text structure of "I'm a Little Teapot" and guides students to write their own rhymes of similar structure.

This lesson from Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes dives into the text structure of "Jack Sprat" and guides students to write their own rhymes of similar structure. 

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2, outlines and carefully explains the K-2 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, outlines and carefully explains the 3-5 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, outlines and carefully explains the 6-8 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, outlines and carefully explains the 9-12 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

These lessons from Writers Read Better: Narrative focus on idea generation and strategies for writing fiction, including drawing together plots and shaping stories that match the meaning that young writers are after. 

In this excerpt from Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5, by Melanie Meehan, you’ll discover how to determine where and how students get stuck in their process, and how we can help them find the right entry point.

Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. But how do you strike the right balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential? Watch this video with Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan, authors of This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, as they answer the question: What is balanced literacy?