AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

Booklist: Short Stories

Plenty of intrigue to keep students engaged, and teachers can use them to teach literary devices including plot, characterization, foreshadowing, and irony.

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Origami Yoda

Author, Tom Angleberger remembers his own struggles as the "weirdest kid in the class" and talks about how he incorporates those memories into his stories.

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Author Study ToolKit

Author studies give students the chance to take a deep dive into an author’s life and works. Our Author Study Toolkit can help you create a unit, choose an author, and develop culminating projects.

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Developing a Positive School Climate

Learn practical ways schools are assessing their school climate, and find resources that are available to improve or enhance a school’s setting.

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Chatting with Raina Telgemeier

Raina discusses discovering her reading super power, keeping a comic diary, how her graphic novels created a whole new book genre, and more!

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Featured Strategy

Double-Entry Journals

The purpose of this strategy is to give students the opportunity to express their thoughts and become actively involved with the material they read.
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Featured Resources

commonLit

This free resource, built by teachers for teachers, offers a collection thematically organized, leveled texts for classrooms — poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature.
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Humanities Resources for the Common Core

EDSITEment’s new educational resources for the Common Core are centered on classic fictional works, as well as a variety of “informational texts.” They are designed to build interdisciplinary knowledge and exercise analytic skills across the curriculum in English Language Arts as well as in Social Studies/History.
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Reading Without Walls Podcast

Gene Yang and Graphic Novelist Mike Lawrence

Gene meets up with Mike Lawrence, creator of the new graphic novel, Star Scouts, where the heroine Avani earns badges in jetpack racing, teleportation, and lasers! Mike talks about his early years as a reader, how he became a writer, and what he's reading now with his kids.
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Featured Glossary Term

Rime

The vowel and all that follows it in a monosyllabic (one-syllable) word. For example, the rime of bag is -ag; and the rime of swim is -im.
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