- 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)
English Language Learners
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?