Why Do Article-A-Day?
Students struggle with reading comprehension when they don't have enough background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading stamina. Article-A-Day systematically builds all three in just 10-15 minutes each day when done consistently. In a small pilot study of nine schools, students showed a 4.7 point (15%) year-over-year gain in ELA test scores.
How to Do Article-A-Day
While we recommend doing the Article-A-Day routine 4 or 5 days a week, we understand how challenging it can be to fit this in this school year. However, if you only have your students 2 or 3 days a week, Article-A-Day can still help them build background knowledge and vocabulary across a wide variety of topics. Below is a weekly plan (along with a planning tool) that you can adapt to fit your students’ needs.
To make the planning even simpler:
To make the planning even simpler:
- Use our Scope & Sequence assigner to browse and assign sets for the entire year!
- Have students do Article-A-Day at the same time each day they are home to help them establish home routines just like they have in your classroom! Teachers have found that Article-A-Day works well as the first assignment, the final assignment, or a transition between subjects!
- Share one of these quick start guides with parents so they can help their students login at home, and share this video with your students so they can see how to do Article-A-Day digitally!
- Remember all the ways you can differentiate Article-A-Day to support each of your learners!
Access your own copy of this plan and a planning tool here!
THE DAILY ROUTINE
STEP 1: Set the purpose for the routine. "Words are where humans store knowledge. So we will build our knowledge by reading these articles. We will also increase our vocabulary, improve our reading stamina, and enjoy reading every day."
STEP 2: Students read or listen to an article. ReadWorks has curated weekly sets of nonfiction articles. All of the articles for the week are related by topic. If students cannot read independently, they can listen to the audio or you can read the article aloud.
*REPEAT STEPS 2 & 3 IF YOU’RE DOING ARTICLE-A-DAY 2 OR 3 DAYS A WEEK: Students choose and read a second article and record their takeaways in their Books of Knowledge
*STEP 4: Share knowledge! If you are meeting with your students in person or virtually, ask a few students to share what they learned from reading. Record this share in your Class Book of Knowledge.
STEP 1: Set the purpose for the routine. "Words are where humans store knowledge. So we will build our knowledge by reading these articles. We will also increase our vocabulary, improve our reading stamina, and enjoy reading every day."
STEP 2: Students read or listen to an article. ReadWorks has curated weekly sets of nonfiction articles. All of the articles for the week are related by topic. If students cannot read independently, they can listen to the audio or you can read the article aloud.
*REPEAT STEPS 2 & 3 IF YOU’RE DOING ARTICLE-A-DAY 2 OR 3 DAYS A WEEK: Students choose and read a second article and record their takeaways in their Books of Knowledge
*STEP 4: Share knowledge! If you are meeting with your students in person or virtually, ask a few students to share what they learned from reading. Record this share in your Class Book of Knowledge.
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