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Use these activities from The Word Study That Sticks Companion by Pamela Koutrakos with your young readers to expand their word learning.

What if the key to increasing the long-term impact of our classrooms and schools was doing fewer things much better? Read the full blog from Dave Stuart Jr., author of These 6 Things, to learn more about how to focus your teaching on what actually matters.

In this excerpt from What Are You Grouping For? Grades 3-8, discover the differences between guided reading and small group instruction.

Shared from Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning, here are 25 ways to use the essays your students write to further the writing process.

You can post this list of essential academic words from Academic for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12, along with their definitions, in your classroom or give a copy to every student.

These graphic organizers from The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank are tools that students can use throughout a reading and writing unit to help clarify their thinking.

In this lesson from Smuggling Writing students learn to gather information from video and audio through structured note taking and collaborative discussion.

Taken from Grammar Keepers these two-page lesson plans on they're, their, and there will help your students learn once and for all how to avoid misusing these homonyms.

This lesson from Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, shows how to explicitly teach active listening skills, crucial for classroom and life interactions. 

The first part of this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades K-2, explores reading mentor texts for parts of a letter; the second part shows how to use interactive writing to inform about and present knowledge. 

Use this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5, to explain to students how an author uses reasons and evidence in informational text.

This lesson from 30-Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups helps students practice summarizing, analyzing, illustrations, and meaning, as well as discussing biases.