Engaging interactive tasks can help middle school students more easily understand complex informational and literary works.

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Close reading is more than just paying attention to words on a page—it’s a deliberate, artful method of turning textual details into evidence for deeper interpretation. Literary critics use it to ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...