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Text reading fluency and reading comprehension

No one reads on an Island: How Contexts and Tasks Influence how we Read

Online Fanfiction: A Supportive Space for Literacy Learning

A Better Way to Workshop

Enhancing Argumentative Writing Using Strategy Instruction

A Meta-analysis of Writing Instruction for Students in the Elementary Grades

Does Perspective Taking Matter in Writing? How? So What?

Supporting English Learners' Development of Academic Language

#CELEBRATEAAPI: An Educator Guide

Writing Motivation Research, Measurement and Pedagogy 

Digital Storytelling and the Writing Process

Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing for Secondary Students

Infographics to Support Writing Development Within Process-Based Writing Pedagogy 

The Myside Bias in Argument Writing

Three Levels of Reasoning Skills in Students' Argumentative Writing

Finding Instructional Balance: The Acquire-Connect-Transfer Learning Sequence

Curated Writing Research Resource: 17 Categories and Counting

A Snapshot of Writing Instruction in Middle Schools

How do Students Process Multiple Documents?

Cognitive Factors in the Development of Children's Writing

Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing for Secondary Students

Enhancing Argumentative Writing Using Strategy Instruction

Resource in the Spotlight: Visible Learning for Literacy

Muhammad Cultivating Genius

Infographic to Support Writing Development Within Process-based Writing Pedagogy

Webinar Recap: Designing Academic Writing, Assignments for All Students, All Environments, All Classrooms

Webinar Recap: Kelly Gallagher on Narrative Writing

Building Your Classroom Library

​Webinar Recap: Purposeful Arcs of Writing Instruction

Flash Presentation: Using Screen Capture Software to Communicate Ideas in the Drafting Process

Notice and Note Signposts: Intro to Upcoming Webinar

​Featured Resource: University of California, Irvine's Writing Project

​How do Writing Workshops Support Doctoral Student Writers?

​Featured Resource: The UC Irvine History Project

​Having Choice: Middle School Multigenre Research Projects

​The What and Why of Disciplinary Literacy

Writing Organization as a Concept (Rather than a Formula)

Guidelines on Using
Copyrighted Materials for Teaching

Letters to the President: Fostering Civic Literacy through Authentic Writing Tasks

Letters to the President: Guidelines for Promoting Civic Writing

What is a Transformative Justice Approach to Literacy Education?

Pens to Pixels: Designing a
​Digital Magazine

Who is [and who is not] in the curriculum?

Continuing the Conversation on "Designing Purposeful Arcs of Writing Instruction

Supporting Online Synchronous Collaborative Writing in the Secondary Classroom

Disciplinary Literacy in ELA, Science,
​and History

Dialogic Literary Argumentation: A New Framework for Teaching and Learning Literature

Essential Reading: Guidance on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Remote Education

Enhance Writing Instruction with Technology

 

Writing Instruction in History Classrooms: A Survey of Today's History/Social Studies Teachers.

Writing-to-Learn: What This Type of Assignment Looks Like in an Online Class

​Supporting Students During Online Instruction

​Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction

​How to Improve Reading Skills by Teaching Writing?

Writing-to-Learn: The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Math

Resource in the Spotlight: National Writing Project

Engaging Students in Self-Assessment during Online Writing Instruction

Use Padlet to Assist Students' Process-Based Writing

​Teaching Arguments Book Review

​Supporting Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

High-Impact Resources for Teaching Interpretation, Critique, and Argument in Social Studies

Strategy Instruction that Works

Why Argument Writing Matters

Using Assessments to Inform Instruction

Integrate Reading and Writing Instruction

Explicit Teaching Strategies: Model-Practice-Reflect

Secondary Writing Instruction: Three Evidence-Based Practices that Work