Blog Post Resources for Literacy Learning

7 Art Activities to Practice Reading Skills During Summer Break

Help students stay engaged and productive at home during summer break with these seven art activities designed to boost reading skills! From creating word necklaces to mapmaking to poetry slams, discover fun and creative ways to integrate learning and play.

6 Reading Activities to Get Students Moving This Summer

In this installment of Lexia’s series on activities for families during school closures, we invite you to take a deep breath, stretch, and get moving with us! With schools closed, students have been spending countless hours at home. Parents, this means you’ve had the added pressure of playing a primary role in your children’s education. And as if that weren’t time-consuming enough, you're still overseeing the day-to-day duties of seemingly endless loads of laundry, meal planning and preparation, yard work, and the like.

Social and Emotional Learning: 7 Ways to Partner With Families

Although schools traditionally focus on academic skills, educators also play a significant role in students’ social and emotional development. After all, students are learning crucial interpersonal skills (e.g., self-management, relationship-building, and responsible decision-making) as they work on class projects and navigate peer relationships, and research bears out the importance of guiding this social and emotional learning—or SEL—in the classroom.

Emergent bilingual students: Shifting to an asset model of instruction

The number of emergent bilinguals, also known as English language learners (ELLs) or English learners (ELs), has nearly doubled—to about 5 million, roughly 10% of all students in our public schools.

Funding Schools in a Pandemic: Where to Start

50/50: Uncertain Fates for Non-Teaching Personnel in Times of Recession