An effective lesson planning process has the potential to transform your year.

For us educators, lesson planning can reduce stress because we have everything outlined. It also saves us a ton of time in the long run.

But did you know that lesson planning also benefits our students? When we have clear plans, students begin understanding routines, and the increased cohesion between our lesson components helps them get better results!

Keep reading to learn the 5 step process to creating effective literacy lesson plans AND to grab our FREE lesson planning guides!

An effective lesson planning process has the potential to transform your year.

For us educators, lesson planning can reduce stress because we have everything outlined. It also saves us a ton of time in the long run.

But did you know that lesson planning also benefits our students? When we have clear plans, students begin understanding routines, and the increased cohesion between our lesson components helps them get better results!

Keep reading to learn the 5 step process to creating effective literacy lesson plans AND to grab our FREE lesson planning guides!

Prepare for back-to-school with our top 5 MUST-HAVE literacy intervention materials! From whiteboards & dry erase markers to phonogram cards and more, equip yourself with essentials for effective teaching. Discover these must-haves now!

Do you have students who struggle with writing?

Maybe they struggle to come up with ideas and just stare at their paper. Maybe they have a difficult time organizing their thoughts or using a clear introduction and conclusion. Or perhaps they forget to edit their work for things like capitalization and spelling.

Wherever in the writing process they struggle, one thing is for sure - writing can be tricky!

That’s why we’ve implemented this 3 step writing process. Keep reading to learn more.

We are so excited to share this resource with you today! Scoop Spelling changed my life! This strategy brought such relief to my students who struggled to spell multi-syllable words correctly and instantly boosted their confidence! This strategy is so simple to use!

First, make sure that your students are solid on syllabication; what syllables are and how to count them. This knowledge is the key to Scoop Spelling. If a student knows or can hear how a word breaks apart into syllables, then they can Scoop Spell!

Assessment that drives instruction should be based on evidence-based practices.. To read and write effectively, we need to make connections between phonological processing, orthographic processing, and semantic processing. Our assessments should be designed to measure a student’s ability in each of these areas. However, measuring some of these areas is easier than others.

Measuring reading fluency is an important step in understanding whether students are on track with their overall rate (speed) and accuracy in their reading. In this blog, we will share the exact process you can use to determine where your students’ reading fluency skills are at using norm-referenced measures and rubrics.

You may have heard that 3rd grade is the year where students transition from learning to read to reading to learn. But how exactly do we support that transition for students who are still working on the foundations?

Today, we’re sharing about how you can use your students’ favorite books to create evidence-based lesson plans that align with the Science of Reading so that your 3rd and 4th graders can begin to generalize those foundational skills to higher-level reading.

Do your students ever struggle to make appropriate inferences or predictions from a story or passage they've just heard or read?

If so, not to worry, this is a high-level concept! And, we’re here to share our explicit teaching strategy to help students begin to “take leaps” with information by making inferences and predictions. Keep reading to learn more!

Do your students ever struggle to figure out the main idea of a story or passage they've just heard or read?

This is really common because it’s a tricky concept! And, we’re here to share our explicit teaching strategy to help students identify and produce a main idea. Check out the blog to learn more!

Do your students ever struggle to recall important information directly from a story or passage they've just heard or read?

If so, don’t worry, it's very common! And, we’re here to share our explicit teaching strategy to help students recall important information. Check out this blog to learn more!

Have your students ever struggled to apply explicitly taught strategies to reading chapter books?

Have you ever struggled to keep your students motivated and engaged in your literacy instruction?

If so you are not alone!

One of the best strategies to help your students apply strategies while keeping them motivated and engaged is to build a structured and systematic SOR-aligned lesson and pair it with a chapter book.

Rate and accuracy are definitely both components of fluency. However, fluency is so much more than that and there are few fluency skills that get way less attention (but are just as important!) Keep reading to find out what they are.

Over the last few decades, there has been a lot of research done that helps us understand the brain, how we learn to read, and how we, as educators, can best teach reading. This movement is known as the Science of Reading. 

This research has helped us recognize the necessary components of a reading & writing lesson, but, it can feel like a lot to dig through! In this blog, we discuss a few of the common research models and explain how they overlap to support truly effective reading (and writing!) instruction.

When it comes to vocabulary instruction, rote memorization of definitions has been the go-to strategy for students for a looooooong time. While this flashcard strategy can be an effective way to learn new words, it ultimately isn't effective for long-term retention. We’ve found a strategy that can easily be incorporated into your existing literacy lessons to support vocabulary development and comprehension. Curious? Click here to learn more.

Is a side hustle right for me? We see this question all of the time. Click through for more information on how to decide whether or not a side hustle is right for you!

Running summer groups was one of the best decisions for us and we know it can be for you too! Click through to learn the 3 reasons why running summer groups will be the best thing you do this year!