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Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon

Instructions for Dancing

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA

Black seventeen-year-old Evie Thomas has given up on love. But after finding Instructions for Dancing in a Little Free Library, she gains the ability to see the romantic fates of others and is led by the book to a romance of her own. 

Integrating Knowledge and Ideas Across Multiple Sources of Information

Ms. Heppeler sets the stage for an ambitious multi-day unit examining four key documents from President Lincoln: his first inaugural address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address and the second inaugural address. She helps students draw inferences from Civil War-era photos, cartoons and maps as well as the primary texts. Grade 11: History

Kathleen McLane

Integrating Student Progress Monitoring (SPM) into Your Classroom: The Teacher's Perspective

Is your school planning to implement student progress monitoring (SPM)? Are you thinking of using it in your classroom? If so, consider a number of factors to make SPM an integral part of classroom activities, rather than a series of isolated assessments unconnected to other parts of the learning experience. This brief offers some suggestions on how to use SPM in an integrated way.

U.S. Department of Education

Intensive, Individualized Interventions for Struggling Readers

Because the cause of adolescents’ difficulties in reading vary, interventions may focus on any of the critical elements of knowledge and skill required for the comprehension of complex texts, including fundamental skills such as phonemic awareness, phonemic decoding, text reading fluency, vocabulary-building strategies, and self-regulated use of reading comprehension strategies.
Internment
Samira Ahmed

Internment

Genre:
Fiction, Science fiction / Dystopian
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA

In a terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.

Interventions for Eighth Graders

What are some good interventions for students who are in the eighth grade? Do you have any good ideas for adolescents who struggle with reading?

There may be a variety of reasons why an eighth grade student may struggle with reading, so you need to remember that there is no “one size fits all” solution in terms of interventions. It is also helpful to know how the intervention(s) will be delivered and by whom (i.e., will the intervention be delivered in a pull-out, small-group setting, or will it be delivered in the general education classroom? By a literacy specialist, or by a classroom teacher?)

Donald D. Deshler, Michael F. Hock

Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers

This article presents a round-up of intervention initiatives aimed at struggling adolescent readers. It provides a snapshot of program characteristics and research findings for Reciprocal Teaching, Apprenticeship in Reading, Read 180, Language!, SRA Corrective Reading, and Strategic Instruction Model (SIM).