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Assessing reading comprehension with English language learners: In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 3; Strategies such as flow charts can help you assess reading comprehension for English language learners, content-area learners, and all students.; Format: article; By Ellen Douglas.

Choosing books that are just right: This teacher research study examines how students select books for independent reading and how teachers can help them make choices more appropriate to their reading levels.; Format: article; By Melinda Parks.

Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History: Best practices, process guides, worksheets, and other resources for teaching with LEARN NC's digital textbook of North Carolina history.; Format: (multiple pages)

Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners: English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but they may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.; Format: article; By Ellen Douglas.

Ongoing assessment for reading: Ongoing, informal assessment is crucial to teaching reading. Using audio and visual examples, this edition explains the use of running records and miscue analysis, tools that help a teacher to identify patterns in student reading behaviors and the strategies a reader uses to make sense of text.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Perfecting the circle: See how one teacher reshaped literature circles to fit her middle school classroom.; By Beth Salyers.

Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension: In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1; Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.; Format: article; By Ellen Douglas.

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

Reading biographies and autobiographies: In Rethinking Reports, page 3.3; How good is that biography your students are reading? Here's how to make sure they get the most out of their reading and research.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault.

Reading comprehension and English language learners: Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Reading comprehension strategies for English language learners: In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 2; Strategies like think-pair-share, think-alouds, and GIST can help English language learners, content-area learners, and all students make sense of text while they read.; Format: article; By Ellen Douglas.

Reading comprehension: From research to practice in middle-grades English language arts: This article shares the details of a successful collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education faculty member Leigh Hall and eighth-grade teacher Deanna Watts on a research project that greatly improved students' reading comprehension.; Format: article/best practice; By Dan Lewandowski.

Reading for relevance in literature: A unit-length instructional plan for using graphic organizers to promote active reading of novels, using The Count of Monte Cristo as an example.; By Suzanne Micallef.

Reading is for the boys (and girls)!: This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."; Format: article; By Kimberly Bowen.

Reading picture books: Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault.

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.

Rethinking Reports: Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.; Format: series (multiple pages)

A room for students: A learning environment where students feel that they belong is the key to success for this eighth-grade language arts teacher. A classroom profile.; Format: article; By Kathleen Casson.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.

Strategies for online reading comprehension: This article examines the differences between reading in print and reading online, and proposes some tools and strategies to help aid students' reading comprehension and information literacy in online environments.; Format: article/best practice; By Kevin Hodgson.

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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.