This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces teaching strategies for integrating the content-based student lessons in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy Collection into your curriculum. The lessons can be used to introduce, supplement, or review content while supporting students’ literacy skills, particularly those of struggling readers. This professional development lesson goes through the process of using the student lessons in your classroom step-by-step, including selecting a lesson, preparing before a lesson, and assessing the lesson.

It is recommended that you precede this lesson with the “Research Principles for Supporting Middle School Literacy” professional development lesson to learn about the research principles for middle school literacy and explore how they are evident in this collection.