When students, or any of us, learn new words, they need opportunities to practice with and personalize those words. This is especially true if those words are essential to something they are reading or if they need to use them in their own writing. This interactive webinar will share approaches and strategies that encourage students’ active practice with important words to support reading comprehension and writing. Additionally, this webinar will share instructional and environmental resources that teachers can easily integrate…

Come Hangout! is a new addition to the AARI Professional Community of Support. This is a virtual opportunity to connect with other AARI educators to engage in professional dialogue, develop resources, and grow collectively. Read more...

Using Enbrighten in your classroom or intervention groups?  Have questions or want to learn from other implementers?  Join the conversation on www.twitter.com with Erika Lusky and Julie Rains who have designed chats to support your implementation of Enbrighten!  Follow @JJ_Rains and @erika_lusky and use the hashtag #Enbrighten for this chat.

This series will support the implementation efforts of educators who have participated in a week-long literacy academy.  Read more... 

If there’s been a vocabulary program out there, I’ve probably tried it. If there’s a vocabulary program I’ve tried, then I probably couldn’t make it work. After years of frustration and feeling like I kept taking students further away from words with lists and definitions and quizzes, I stopped. Then I decided to pay attention to how readers acquire language, how my students adopted it, and under what circumstances they were most likely to make new words a part of…

Join a Learning Lab to enhance your AARI practice OR if you're interested in learning more about AARI. Observe two AARI classes. Engage in the AARI professional community. Dialogue with experienced AARI educators. Learn collaboratively. There are seven Learning Labs throughout the 2016-17 school year. Learn more...

This series introduces teachers to the classroom cultures and instructional practices that research suggests are critical to nurturing and developing thoughtful, motivated, and proficient writers. The series will be an in-depth study designed to increase teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge of teaching writing to K-2 grade students. This offering will help you be prepared to incorporate the new Common Core Standards into your Language Arts program.