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English Language Learners
  • Accessing Students' Background Knowledge in the ELL Classroom  (link unavailable)
  • Colorín Colorado
  • Domino Game to Develop Letter-Sound Association
  • Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
  • English Language Learners  (link unavailable)
  • Instructional and Language Scaffolds for English Learners in Elementary Classrooms
  • Instructional Decision-making Procedures for Ensuring Appropriate Instruction for Struggling Students (section on ELs)
  • Linking the Language: A Cross-Disciplinary Vocabulary Approach
  • A Multidimensional Approach to Vocabulary Instruction: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms  (link unavailable)
  • Narrative Story Structure: Questions and Considerations (English and Spanish)
  • National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition Dual Language Learners in the Early Years: Getting Ready to Succeed in School
  • Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs  (link unavailable)
  • Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
  • Reading Poetry with English Language Learners  (link unavailable)
  • Reading Process in Spanish
  • Reading Support for Spanish-Speaking Students in Elementary Classrooms
  • Response to Intervention in Reading for English Language Learners  (link unavailable)
  • Second Set Partners: A Turn and Talk Strategy (video clip)
  • Six Key Strategies for Teachers of English-Language Learners
  • Spanish Phonological Awareness Lessons & Materials
  • Spanish Syllables into Words activity
  • Supporting ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom: Reading Instruction  (link unavailable)  (link unavailable)
  • Supporting the English Language Learner
  • Teaching English Language Learners to Read  (link unavailable)
  • Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners  (link unavailable)
  • Texas English Language Learner's Portal (TEA)
  • Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension  (link unavailable)
  • Using Multimedia to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms  (link unavailable)
  • What's 'Normal,' What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language  (link unavailable)
  • Writing Poetry with English Language Learners  (link unavailable)
Features of Explicit Instruction
  • Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
  • Decoding Instruction (video)
  • Modeling Retell (video)
  • Rosenshine (2012) article, “Principles of Effective Instruction: Research-Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know”
Differentiating Instruction
  • Best Practice for RTI: Differentiated Reading Instruction for All Students (Tier 1)  (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction  (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Instruction (First Grade)
  • Differentiated Instruction for Reading  (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Instruction for Writing  (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Instruction: Key to Student Success
  • Embedded Supports to Differentiate Instruction for Struggling Students  (link unavailable)
  • Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading  (link unavailable)
  • Understanding Differentiated Instruction
  • Using Student Center Activities to Differentiate Reading Instruction: A Guide for Teachers
Oral Language Development
  • The Critical Role of Oral Language in Reading for Title I and ELL Students
  • Performance Reading  (link unavailable)
  • The Power of Morphology
  • Reading, Writing, and Role Play (video)
  • Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs  (link unavailable)
  • Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language to Build Young Children's Vocabularies  (link unavailable)
  • Young Children's Oral Language Development  (link unavailable)
Listening Comprehension
  • Comprehension: Teaching Strategies and Examples, from the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon
  • Modeling Retell - First Grade (video)
  • Shared Reading  (link unavailable)
  • Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension  (link unavailable)
  • Using Thinkalouds with Fiction and Nonfiction Text (video)
Phonological Awareness
  • Blending and Segmenting Games  (link unavailable)
  • Classroom Strategies  (link unavailable)
  • Concept of Word Games  (link unavailable)
  • Elkonin Boxes  (link unavailable)
  • Phoneme Manipulating
  • Onset/Rime Games  (link unavailable)
  • Phonological Awareness
  • Phonological Awareness (First Grade)
  • Phonological Awareness: Five Levels of Phonological Awareness
  • Phonological Awareness: Guidelines for Instruction
  • Rhyming Games  (link unavailable)
  • Spanish Phonological Awareness Lessons & Materials
  • Syllable Games  (link unavailable)
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonological Awareness for Grades K through 1
Phonics and Spelling
  • Alphabet Matching
  • Building Blocks for Spelling
  • Classroom Strategies
  • Daily Sample Lessons/Activities: Phonics/Word Study
  • Decoding Instruction - First Grade (video)
  • Guidelines for Examining Phonics and Word Recognition
  • Irregular Word Practice Look-Say-Cover
  • Sample of Daily Lessons for Phonics
  • Sound-Spelling chart
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonics for Grades K through 5
  • Teaching Tutorial: Decoding Instruction
  • West Virginia Phonics Lessons includes lesson plans, word lists, and decodable text
  • Word Study: A New Approach to Teaching Spelling
Fluency
  • Classroom Strategies
  • Fluency: Partner Reading with Retell
  • Paired Reading
  • Reader's Theater
  • Reading Fluency Viewed as Neglected Skills
  • Shared Reading
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Fluency for Grades K through 5
  • Timed Repeated Reading
Vocabulary
  • Classroom Strategies  (link unavailable)
  • Linking the Language: A Cross-Disciplinary Vocabulary Approach  (link unavailable)
  • A Multidimensional Approach to Vocabulary Instruction: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms  (link unavailable)
  • Planning for Vocabulary Instruction:  Selecting Vocabulary Words to Preteach Before Reading
  • Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
  • Reading Rockets: Vocabulary  (link unavailable)
  • Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language to Build Young Children's Vocabularies  (link unavailable)
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Vocabulary for Grades K through 5
  • Teaching Vocabulary  (link unavailable)
  • Using Multimedia to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms  (link unavailable)
  • Vocabulary Activities for Extended Student Practice
  • Vocabulary Lesson Plan
  • Ways to Build Word Knowledge
Reading Comprehension
  • Classroom Strategies  (link unavailable)
  • Comprehension Instruction
  • Comprehension: Teaching Strategies and Examples, from the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon
  • Higher Order Thinking Question Stems
  • How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
  • How to Increase Higher Order Thinking  (link unavailable)
  • Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (What Works Clearinghouse/IES)
  • Narrative Story Structure: Questions and Considerations (English & Spanish)
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K through 5
  • Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension  (link unavailable)
Writing
  • Classroom Strategies  (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Instruction for Writing  (link unavailable)
  • Reading Rockets: Writing  (link unavailable)
  • Reading, Writing, and Role Play (video)
  • Summary Writing Using a Frame – First Grade (video)
  • Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
  • Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age
  • Writing Poetry with English Language Learners  (link unavailable)
Using Assessment Data
  • Achieving a Wealth of Riches: New Alliance Brief Examines How Teachers Can Use Data to Transform Teaching and Learning
  • Closing the Achievement Gap: Collaborating to Support Student Success webinar
  • Selecting an Intervention to Meet Students’ Needs: A “How-To” Resource for Educators
  • Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making
Other Links
  • Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades (What Works Clearinghouse/IES)
  • Center on Accelerating Student Learning (CASL)
  • Classroom Reading Instruction That Supports Struggling Readers:  Key Components for Effective Teaching
  • Find What Works based on the evidence: Literacy
  • Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
  • How Spelling Supports Reading and Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think
  • Morphological Awareness
  • Student Center Activities, Grades K-1 (Revised, 2008)
  • Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: Do Children Learn to Read Naturally?