Featured Site
Teaching Kids News
Teaching Kids News (TKN) provides timely, relevant news articles for kids, educators in the classroom, and parents at home. Teaching Kids News was created by educators Jonathan Tilly and Kathleen Tilly and freelance journalist Joyce Grant. Free to use, the website offers news articles with lower readability levels than traditional newspapers. There are articles within News, Entertainment, Science, Arts, Sports, and Politics.
Featured Partner
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is a national association of librarians, library workers, and advocates whose mission is to expand and strengthen library services for teens, aged 12-18. Through its member-driven advocacy, research, and professional development initiatives, YALSA builds the capacity of libraries and librarians to engage, serve, and empower teens.
Featured Strategy
Think Alouds
Think Alouds are practical and relatively easy for teachers to use within the classroom. Teachers are able to model the Think Aloud technique and discuss how good readers often re-read a sentence, read ahead to clarify, and/or look for context clues to make sense of what they read. Think alouds slow down the reading process and enable students to develop their metacognitive skills while monitoring their understanding of a text.
Browse AdLit.org's Classroom Strategies Library for more techniques to improve students' vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing.
Featured Glossary Term
Metacognition
Metacognition is the process of thinking about thinking. For example, good readers use metacognition before reading when they clarify their purpose for reading and preview the text.








