Literacy Skills for the 21st Century

Welcome to MAX Teaching with Reading and Writing®, a staff-development opportunity for schools interested in improving reading, writing, and learning skills of all students from the first grade through the thirteenth.

Available Now: MAX Teaching in Action: Classroom Demonstrations of Reading & Writing Activities that Help Students Learn New Subject Matter while Acquiring Literacy Skills

MAX Teaching in Action is a set of four DVDs with classroom vignettes of MAX Teaching performed by real teachers in real classrooms across the age span and across the curriculum that will be available through our web page. Preview DVDs.

Also Available: Max Teaching with Reading and Writing (2004) by Mark A. Forget, Ph.D.

Max Teaching with Reading and Writing is a teacher's manual with step-by-step descriptions of literacy-based classroom activities to engage students in active learning in any content area.

• Show teachers how to increase student engagement in any academic or vocational classroom.
• Create opportunities for all students to practice higher order thinking on a routine basis in every class.
• Involve content area teachers in classroom strategies that can lead to higher reading scores in your school.