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Adolescent literacy for middle grades: Help your students become more strategic readers. You’ll improve your own reading comprehension by teaching and modeling a variety of reading strategies. This course will introduce you to literacy resources and reading tools that will assist and enhance daily instruction.; Format: article/online course

Adolescent literacy: English language arts comprehension strategies: This course will equip teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.; Format: article/online course

Adolescent literacy: Social studies comprehension strategies: "Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Strategies" equips teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the social studies classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.; Format: article/online course

Adolescent literacy: Social studies comprehension strategies: Online course syllabus: Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Strategies equips teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the social studies classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.; Format: syllabus

The benefits of teaching with nonfiction: In this video, classroom footage and teacher interviews explore the benefits of teaching with informational text. Teachers discuss particular student populations that benefit from reading nonfiction, including exceptional children, English language learners,...; Format: video/video

Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools: These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Deafness, language, and literacy: Through expert interviews and classroom footage, this video discusses the role deafness plays in a student’s development of language, and how this affects the way a deaf student may write and speak. Includes an explanation of visual phonics -- a tool that...; Format: video/video

The elements of informational text: In this video, classroom footage and teacher interviews explore the features of nonfiction texts and illustrate how instruction with nonfiction differs from instruction using fictional texts. This video is one in a three-part series about teaching with informational...; Format: video/video

The George Moses Horton Project: Celebrating a triumph of literacy: The only American poet to publish books of poems while living in slavery, George Moses Horton is an inspiration for the power of literacy in our lives.; By Marjorie Hudson.

How to implement instruction with nonfiction: In this video, classroom footage and teacher interviews address best practices in teaching with informational text. This video is one in a three-part series about teaching with informational text. The other videos include: The...; Format: video/video

Play in the multilingual classroom: In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.3; Unstructured play is an important way for young children to make social and cultural connections. It also fosters language development and literacy skills for both English language learners and native English speakers.; Format: article; By Kristin De Soto Madson.

The power of nonfiction: Using informational text to support literacy in special populations: In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 9; This article presents the idea that informational texts, rather than fictional literature, may better help students develop literacy skills -- particularly in students with special needs.; Format: article/best practice; By Joan Barnatt, Ph.D..

Promoting reading comprehension skills in the elementary classroom: Researchers have identified the strategies that expert readers use to understand text. Develop your students into active, purposeful readers by teaching these strategies in your classroom.; Format: article/online course

Promoting reading comprehension skills in the middle school classroom: Teach your students the concrete reading strategies they'll need to improve their comprehension, whether they're reading for class, for work, or for pleasure. This course will help you prepare students to become active, purposeful readers who think about the text before, during, and after reading.; Format: article/online course

Promoting reading comprehension skills in the middle school classroom: Online course syllabus: Syllabus for the online course "Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom," which enables participants to help students develop concrete reading strategies that will improve their reading comprehension.; Format: syllabus

Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice: This series of articles, which balance theory, research, and practice, address a variety of topics within differentiation through text, graphics, and video.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Reading photographs: A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Reading, writing, and research: Integrating literacy across the curriculum: "Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum" helps participants develop skills for implementing oral and written communication instruction in their professions.; Format: article/online course

Reading, writing, and research: Online course syllabus: Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum helps participants develop skills for implementing oral and written communication instruction in their professions.; Format: syllabus

Real-world approaches to reading: Techniques for providing children with the literacy-rich environment that is crucial to both reading and writing success.; By Alta Allen.

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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina — and the world.