FREE Video lessons to send to your students!
Teaching and learning can be hard under normal circumstances. Add to that the dynamics of COVID-19 and delivering high-quality instruction can seem overwhelming. That’s why the team of experts at Smekens Education created Literacy Lessons. This library of ready-to-share reading and writing lessons is being built to support remote teaching — and it’s totally free. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or student, you’ve got enough on your plate. Let us help lighten your load with Literacy Lessons.

Best Practices in Action
What every Literacy Lesson from Smekens Education has in common:
1. Each lesson is short and focused.
2. Each lesson has four parts.
3. Each lesson uses an anchor chart.
4. Each lesson is part of a scaffold.

Here’s a sample of the lessons you’ll find…
Readers have different voices.
Grades K-1
Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to nonfiction text
Lesson 3: Mute the Distracting Voice
Lesson 4: Record reader thoughts
Grades 2-3
Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to nonfiction text
Lesson 3: Apply Reader Voices to all text types
Lesson 4: Mute the Distracting Voice
Lesson 5: Record reader thoughts
Grades 4-6
Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to all text types
Lesson 3: Mute the Distracting Voice
Lesson 4: Record reader thoughts
Grades 7-12
Lesson 1: Apply the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice to all text types
Lesson 2: Mute the Distracting Voice
Lesson 3: Record thoughts via note-taking
Lesson 4: Record thoughts via annotation
Lesson 5: Record thoughts about multiple texts

Readers make inferences.
Grades K-1
Lesson 1: Zoom in to collect multiple text clues
Lesson 2: See patterns and connections
Lesson 3: Explain inferences in writing
Lesson 4: Read, infer, and write—all in one sitting