You must read a lot and while you are reading try to learn the new words and phrases that you encounter. Learn how the word or phrase is used in different situations to convey different meanings or ...

March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development. As we celebrate the value ...

Our love of literacy is rooted in our personal experiences as students, and we both have lengthy histories in education, specifically with language arts. Though our lenses were different, we both saw ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

This module does not focus on one particular English structure or process, as many of the other SEA Site modules do. Instead, its purpose is to provide the site visitor with many different general ...

I’m just not a good writer.”It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned.

A strong foundation in both writing and reading is critical to your success at Western Michigan University. Before you meet with your academic advisor for your one-on-one advising meeting, you should ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? In Part One, Michelle Shory, Ed.S., Irina V. McGrath, Ph.D., Laura Robb, Lindsey Moses, and Laverne Bowers shared ...

Gabriel Garcia Márquez once told an interviewer at the Paris Review that the first time he read Kafka’s Metamorphosis it nearly knocked him clear off his bed. “I didn’t know anyone was allowed to ...