Bringing the Common Core to Life in K-8 Classrooms

30 Strategies to Build Literacy Skills

Actively engage students in their own learning. Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Explore techniques to lead students in close reading, activate their background knowledge to prepare them for learning, and gain insight into habit formation. You’ll develop the know-how to effectively structure teaching to empower all students.

On the sticky note, they should write why the element was interesting to them,
documenting exact words from that page (Jensen & Nickelsen, 2008). These tags
are then shared with other students. Our students like to sign the sticky notes to ...