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Dyslexia Awareness—Using the Science of Reading to Support Students with Dyslexia in K–6
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Panelists, including Dr. Jan Hasbrouck, discuss key features of structured literacy within K-6 literacy systems. They highlight the importance of teaching systematically and explicitly to improve student outcomes.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Amplify
Date Added:
06/20/2024
E37 Teacher Content Knowledge & Early Literacy Instruction with Dr Shayne Piasta and Dr Alida Hudson
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This podcast interview with Drs. Piasta and Hudson discusses teacher content/pedagogical knowledge, phonological awareness instruction, and phonics instruction, why it all matters, and what it means for instruction.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lecture
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
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"The target audience for this guide is a broad spectrum of school practitioners such as administrators, curriculum specialists, coaches, staff development specialists and teachers who face the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English language learners in the elementary grades. The guide also aims to reach district-level administrators who develop practice and policy options for their schools" (IES, 2007).

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
What Works Clearinghouse
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Effective Practices for English Learners Brief 2 Assessment and Data-Based Decision-Making
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This brief is designed to support practitioners, instructional coaches, and school leaders in designing and implementing procedures for choosing literacy assessments, analyzing data, setting criteria, and making decisions based on student data when implementing multitiered systems of support that accommodates English learners (ELs). Classroom teachers and EL interventionists will find this brief helpful for selecting measures, making group and individual decisions, and monitoring student progress across languages. This brief uses scientific evidence from research to share a framework for assessment and data-based decision-making to improve literacy instruction for ELs. This brief also addresses issues that school and district personnel frequently encounter when designing and implementing tiered instruction in schools that implement bilingual programs or that serve ELs in English as a second language programs.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
Date Added:
06/20/2024
English Learners and Dyslexia
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This fact sheet from the International Dyslexia Association provides information about important considerations when evaluating English learners for dyslexia. Classroom teachers may find it helpful as they observe students for possible referral for further assessment. It also includes guidelines for assessment specialists who may provide screening and assessment support.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
International Dyslexia Association
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Essential Features of Tier 3
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Tier 3 is individualized and intensive intervention designed to help students with severe and persistent academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral needs, including students with disabilities. It is a data-driven process characterized by increased intensity and individualization of supports. Use this guide to help you determine if your Tier 3 program is on track.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Provider:
American Institutes for Research
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Establishing a Clear Vision for Schoolwide Data Use
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Establishing a whole-school culture of data use helps all stakeholders make thoughtful, consistent, and appropriate data-based decisions. Schools can develop a data plan and team to guide the use of data and to support a culture of data use. The data team can develop a shared vocabulary for critical concepts of data use and learning.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Doing What Works Library of Resources
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Evidence-Based Assessment in the Science of Reading: Cheat sheet
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Assessment for learning plays a critical role in informing and driving literacy instruction. A comprehensive assessment system allows educators to adjust instruction to meet the specific needs of students, which is critical for students in terms of both the prevention of reading difficulties and intervention to remediate skill gaps. Use the infographic to help understand how and when to use universal screeners, diagnostic assessments, progress monitoring, and outcome evaluation to guide the literacy instruction and intervention.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
LD@school
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies for Elementary English Learner Students
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Research provides insight into specific instructional strategies that should be used in every classroom to support elementary English learner students in developing both English language skills and academic content. This infographic is a quick reference to these evidence-based practices that can be used daily by elementary classroom teachers to support effective instruction for their English learner students

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Regional Educational Laboratories
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
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Teacher understanding of effective evidence-based practices is vital for supporting student achievement and closing achievement gaps. While many alternative pathway teachers know what content they must teach, many have never had classes on how to teach the content using evidence-based practices. This infographic is a quick reference guide containing evidence-based practices that can impact learning that teachers can use daily to support effective instruction.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Institute of Education Sciences
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Explaining Phonics Instruction: An Educator’s Guide
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The literacy brief from the International Literacy Association summarizes key points from research that will help teachers explain phonics to noneducators. The brief includes information about phonics for emerging
readers, phonological awareness, the layers of writing, word study instruction, approaches to teaching phonics, and teaching English learners. The references include research that supports the ideas presented and phonics resources that you can use and share with others.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
International Reading Association
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Explicit Instruction as the Essential Tool for Executing the Science of Reading
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The science of reading has established that explicit instruction is associated with beneficial outcomes for students and may be the secret sauce of instructional success. In this article, Vaughn and Fletcher examine and explain the five key components of effective explicit instruction. They include: segmenting complex skills into manageable tasks; modeling or thinking aloud to address the important features of the content; promoting successful engagement using faded supports and prompts; providing feedback, and creating purposeful practice opportunities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
The Reading League
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Features of Effective Reading Instruction Overview
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The Science of Reading has identified features of effective instruction that work in combination and are the basis of high-quality reading instruction for all students. This PDF provides an overview and characteristics of each feature of effective reading instruction, including a scope and sequence, systematic instruction, explicit, scaffolded, and differentiated instruction. These evidence-based features work together to form the essentials of reading success.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
The Florida Center for Reading Research
Date Added:
06/20/2024
First Sound? Middle Sound? Last Sound?
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This resource from the Institute for Education Sciences helps teachers and parents build children's phonemic awareness by having children identifying the sound and its' position within the word that is the same in two pictures (ex: dog and duck have the same sound in the initial position of the word). This resources provides directions on how to engage in this phonemic awareness activity with children.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Institute of Education Sciences
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Formative assessment: An enabler of learning
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Formative assessment can be a powerful day-to-day tool for teachers and students. This article discusses formative assessment as an approach to teaching and learning that uses feedback as its centerpiece in a supportive classroom context. Formative assessment is a practice that empowers teachers and students to give their best to enable learning.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Better
Date Added:
06/20/2024
Giving Students a Choice
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A teacher discusses the importance of giving students a choice over what to write about, what to write with, and where to sit when they are writing. When given these choices, students are able to write more, they enjoy it more, and the quality of their writing improves.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Doing What Works Library of Resources
Date Added:
06/20/2024
How to Build Fluency with Text in Your Classroom
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This Educator’s Toolbox, developed in Partnership with The Reading League Journal, provides practical ways to incorporate fluency instruction within your classroom.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
National Center on Improving Literacy
Date Added:
06/20/2024
How to Use Systematic Phonics Instruction in Your Classroom
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This educator's Science of Reading toolbox provides strategies for teaching systematic phonics instruction within the classroom, including letter-sound correspondence, regular word reading, and word building.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
National Center on Improving Literacy
Date Added:
06/20/2024