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Using Concept Sort in the Classroom.

A concept sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used to familiarize students with the vocabulary of a new topic or book.

Anticipation Guide

An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy that is used before reading to activate students’ prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.

Cooperative Learning: The Jigsaw Method

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic and become the “expert.”

Powerful Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy to Build Knowledge and Support Comprehension

Students use a list of given words to make predictions about a book.

Making Inferences in a K-2 Classroom | How to Teach Inferences to Kids

Are you teaching students to make inferences in first grade, second grade, or kindergarten? In this video, Susan Jones shares 3 easy and fun activities for inferring.

Primary sources and the power of three

Candace Fleming shares her approach to original research and her standards for sourcing.

Take Five Activity

Dr. Sylvia Vardell walks through the “Take-Five” activity, a five-minute strategy for reading a short poem together.

Enter the research babies!

Nathan Hale has to do a lot of research for his books — so he leaves it to babies?

"A Summer to Die"

Lois Lowry tells the story behind her first book for young readers.

Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors

Rudine Sims Bishop uses “Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors” as an analogy to discuss the importance of diversity in books and the authors who write them.

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