Expand ELA learning with podcasts, graphic novels, videos, and other multimodal texts. Explore practical strategies for using diverse formats to build critical thinking, strengthen analysis, support diverse learners, and increase student engagement.
5 Steps to Changing Student Engagement in the Middle School ELA Classroom
Discover five practical strategies to increase engagement in your middle school ELA classroom. Learn how student choice, discussion, real-world connections, purposeful technology, and authentic learning experiences can inspire deeper reading, writing, and critical thinking.
Discover Trailblazer, a New Elementary English Language Learning Program
Discover Trailblazer, National Geographic Learning’s new seven-level program for elementary multilingual learners, from Cengage School. Learn how engaging resources and authentic content help students build confidence in reading, writing, and critical thinking.
Your Classroom Is Their Window to the World: Engaging Students Through Collaborative Project-Based Learning in ELA
Discover how collaborative project-based learning can engage high school ELA students while building literacy, communication, and critical thinking skills. Learn how meaningful collaboration and real-world content help students strengthen reading, writing, and confidence.
Bring Your Multilingual Learner Classroom Into the Future with Lift
In this workshop, participants explore techniques that develop students’ academic oral language skills through science and history topics.
Let’s Talk About Content
Let’s Talk About Content
In this workshop, participants explore techniques that develop students’ academic oral language skills through science and history topics. By integrating language and content, teachers create relevant lessons and enhance student motivation. These collaborative discussion tools also help students apply academic vocabulary and information from texts in engaging ways.
Deborah Short, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Language Research and Training, LLC Arlington, Virginia
In this workshop, participants explore techniques that develop students’ academic oral language skills through science and history topics. By integrating language and content, teachers create relevant lessons and enhance student motivation. These collaborative discussion tools also help students apply academic vocabulary and information from texts in engaging ways.
In this webinar replay, you will:
- Strategize on how to help students build oral language through content-specific lessons
- Discover best practices to increase meaningful collaborative discussions
- Increase academic vocabulary and build knowledge using texts
What Do We Mean by “Rigor”? Using Challenging Texts in Responsive Ways
What Do We Mean by “Rigor”? Using Challenging Texts in Responsive Ways
Students need to read, discuss, and compose complex texts in order to meet content standards. But grade-level texts may not be accessible, at least independently, for every child. Join author and researcher Nancy Frey for a discussion of the nature of challenging grade-level texts, and methods for ensuring that all students benefit.
Nancy Frey, Ph.D.
Professor, San Diego State University
Students need to read, discuss, and compose complex texts in order to meet content standards. But grade-level texts may not be accessible, at least independently, for every child. Join author and researcher Nancy Frey for a discussion of the nature of challenging grade-level texts, and methods for ensuring that all students benefit.
In this webinar replay, you will learn:
- Understand the relationship between text readability, text complexity, and Depth of Knowledge measures
- Use close and critical reading techniques to promote discussion and knowledge-building
- Leverage MTSS/RTI Tier 2 supplemental supports for students who need pre-teaching and re-teaching
- Examine Education Trust's assignment analysis tool to ensure equity of expectations for all students
Make It Happen! Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction in Virtual Elementary Classrooms
Make It Happen! Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction in Virtual Elementary Classrooms
We are living in an unprecedented time with dual pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. It is paramount that we attend to issues of equity and work to support children of color in learning literacy, even as we try to learn our way around virtual classroom spaces. Culturally-responsive literacy instruction is an evidence-based approach that teachers can use to promote literacy learning for all students.
Jennifer D. Turner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Reading Education,
University of Maryland College Park,
Department Editor, Language Arts Journal
We are living in an unprecedented time with dual pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. It is paramount that we attend to issues of equity and work to support children of color in learning literacy, even as we try to learn our way around virtual classroom spaces. Culturally-responsive literacy instruction is an evidence-based approach that teachers can use to promote literacy learning for all students.
In this webinar replay, you will learn:
- How to identify key elements of culturally responsive literacy instruction
- How to understand relevant research on culturally responsive literacy instruction
- Ways to implement culturally responsive literacy instruction in virtual elementary classrooms
Ideas and Best Practices for Teaching Reading Through Distance Learning
Ideas and Best Practices for Teaching Reading Through Distance Learning
In today’s education environment teachers are being asked to engage students in synchronous learning. Ensuring that students are making grade-level gains through distance learning can be a daunting task. Having reading activities connected to science and social studies allows teachers to save screen time by covering multiple standards in one lesson. Join Vanessa Perrotta, Director of Marketing, Literacy; and Sara Heindorf, Manager, Customer Success at National Geographic Learning for practical ideas and realistic lessons and activities that will help students make gains via distance learning, in-school, and hybrid situations.
Vanessa Perrotta
Director of Marketing and Literacy, National Geographic Learning | Cengage
Sara Heindorf
Customer Success Manager, National Geographic Learning | Cengage
In today’s education environment teachers are being asked to engage students in synchronous learning. Ensuring that students are making grade-level gains through distance learning can be a daunting task. Having reading activities connected to science and social studies allows teachers to save screen time by covering multiple standards in one lesson. Join Vanessa Perrotta, Director of Marketing, Literacy; and Sara Heindorf, Manager, Customer Success at National Geographic Learning for practical ideas and realistic lessons and activities that will help students make gains via distance learning, in-school, and hybrid situations.
In this webinar replay, you will learn:
- Learn immediate take-home activities to use with students today
- Discover text sets that will allow you to teach reading, science, and social studies in one lesson
- Uncover strategies to differentiate instruction virtually while engaging the whole class
Units of Study for Student Success: Rigorous Instruction During In-Person and Distance Learning
Units of Study for Student Success: Rigorous Instruction During In-Person and Distance Learning
Getting to knowledge-building instruction means turning to units of study that revolve around big ideas and build students’ academic content and vocabulary knowledge. While it’s crucial to teach students through units of study in any given year, with today’s circumstances and likely periods of online learning, units of study take on an even more important role in the curriculum landscape.
Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Getting to knowledge-building instruction means turning to units of study that revolve around big ideas and build students’ academic content and vocabulary knowledge. While it’s crucial to teach students through units of study in any given year, with today’s circumstances and likely periods of online learning, units of study take on an even more important role in the curriculum landscape.
In this webinar replay, you will learn:
- What is meant by 'units of study'?
- What is the role of units of study in promoting more meaningful and engaging learning environments?
- Where and how digital texts and plans fit into a strategy for success