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Growing literacy:
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Stay connected with the evolving world of literacy. Here, you’ll find thought-provoking blog posts, relevant news, and compelling client success stories that highlight practices and the profound impact of intentionally designed curriculum in classrooms like yours.

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Top Five: Productive Student Discussion Strategies

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vibrant, stylized digital illustration, rendered in watercolor, features a young person with dark skin and hair pulled up, intensely reading an open book. The foreground shows the reader focused on the text, while the background is filled with abstract shapes, watercolor splatters, and floating thought clouds in shades of purple, blue, and white, symbolizing immersion and the blossoming of ideas from reading.

The Power of Independent Reading

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An artistic, close-up illustration of a hand holding a dark pen, actively sketching or writing on a surface. The lines being drawn form a transparent, multi-layered, three-dimensional geometric framework or blueprint, suggesting the process of planning, designing, or creating a structured model.

IBD-ize: Inquiry By Design As a Verb

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A watercolor illustration depicting three spiral notebooks or papers, each representing a different level of assessment or quality: a green checkmark for 'strong,' a yellow triangular caution sign for 'middle' or 'needs attention,' and a red 'X' for 'weak' or 'incorrect.

Using Student Exemplars: A Caution

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A vibrant, abstract digital illustration. At the center is a large lightbulb glowing with yellow light, which contains a subtle brain or thought-cloud shape inside, symbolizing an "idea" or "insight." The lightbulb is surrounded by a dynamic, spiraling cluster of stylized, open, and closed books in various shades of blue and green. The overall effect is energetic, visually representing the power of diverse texts to spark creative thinking and new ideas.

Texts as Tools for Thinking: The Topic is Not the Message

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Abstract swirling pattern of blue, green, and yellow ribbons intertwining and curling on a white background, evoking a sense of motion and fluidity—much like the captivating flow of stories during read alouds.

The Spiral Curriculum: Letting Go of Mastery

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Four teenagers sit together at a classroom table, smiling and talking, with books and papers spread out in front of them. Sunlight streams through large windows behind them, creating a bright, cheerful atmosphere as they prepare for their next read alouds.

Fostering Effective Small Group Work

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A watercolor portrait of a confident middle school student looking over their shoulder in a classroom. Two other students are in the blurry background.

Diving In: Why We Don’t “Pre-Teach” Our Texts

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A teacher conducts engaging read alouds from a book to attentive students seated at desks in a classroom, with sunlight streaming through windows and a green chalkboard in the background.

Never Too Old for Read Alouds

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A child and an adult use hammers and tongs to shape hot metal on an anvil outdoors, practicing blacksmithing together—demonstrating authentic craftsmanship with no fake work involved.

Apprenticeship and No Fake Work

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