Drawing on New York City teachers' experiences, this article examines three ways to effectively integrate young adult literature into the curriculum: use core texts (usually novels, but also other genres as well) that the entire class...

Click on Watch on YouTube to watch the FRONTLINE film "Stickup Kid." Then Do Now activity, students engage in a conversation around teen sentencing and discuss the question: Should teens under 18 be tried and sentenced as children or...

As adults, we explore pictures, captions, diagrams and text, when reading any kind of informational piece. Kids can do this too! For this lesson, students will sort information that was obtained from pictures and diagrams, from that...

Editing is a step that can often be overlooked in Kindergarten; however, it is crucial that our learners understand how and why to go back and fix their writing! In this lesson, students will take suggestions from the teacher and their...