• Alternative Passage Reading Procedures - Third Grade (video)
• Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
• Best Practice for RTI: Differentiated Reading Instruction for All Students (Tier 1)
• Classroom Reading Instruction That Supports Struggling Readers:  Key Components for Effective Teaching
• Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction
• Differentiated Instruction for Reading
• Differentiated Instruction for Writing
• Differentiated Instruction: Key to Student Success
• Differentiated Instruction (Third Grade)
• Embedded Supports to Differentiate Instruction for Struggling Students
• Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading
• Improving Participation with Talk Moves
• Instructional Strategies That Facilitate Learning Across Content Areas
• Rosenshine (2012) article, “Principles of Effective Instruction: Research-Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know”
• Understanding Differentiated Instruction
• Using Student Center Activities to Differentiate Reading Instruction: A Guide for Teachers
• Using Thinkalouds with Fiction and Nonfiction Text (video)

English Language Learners

• Accessing Students' Background Knowledge in the ELL Classroom
• Colorin Colorado
• The Critical Role of Oral Language in Reading for Title I and ELL Students
• Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
• English Language Learners
• 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
• Narrative Story Structure: Questions and Considerations (English & Spanish)
• Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs
• Reading Poetry with English Language Learners
• Reading Process in Spanish
• Reading Support for Spanish-Speaking Students in Elementary Classrooms
• Response to Intervention in Reading for English Language Learners
• Second Set Partners: A Turn and Talk Strategy (video clip)
• Six Key Strategies for Teachers of English-Language Learners
• Supporting ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom: Reading Instruction
• Supporting the English Language Learner
• Teaching English Language Learners to Read
• Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners
• Texas English Language Learner's Portal (TEA)
• Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension
• Using Multimedia to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
• What's 'Normal,' What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language
• Writing Poetry with English Language Learners

• Classroom Strategies
• Daily Sample Lessons/Activities: Phonics/Word Study
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Blending
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Isolating
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Manipulating
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Manipulating What's Left?
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Matching
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Segmenting
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonemic Awareness Centers (Grades 2-3): Phoneme Segmenting and Blending
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonics Centers (Grades 2-3): High Frequency Words
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonics Centers (Grades 2-3): Letter-Sound Correspondence
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonics Centers (Grades 2-3): Morpheme Structures
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonics Centers (Grades 2-3): Syllable Patterns
• Florida Center for Reading Research Phonics Centers (Grades 2-3): Variant Correspondences
• Guidelines for Examining Phonics and Word Recognition
• How Spelling Supports Reading and Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think
• Morphological Awareness
• Phoneme Grapheme Mapping Syllable Patterns
• Sample of Daily Lessons for Phonics
• Six Syllable Sort
• Sound-Spelling chart
• Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonics for Grades K through 5
• West Virginia Phonics Lessons includes lesson plans, word lists, and decodable text
• Word Study: A New Approach to Teaching Spelling

• Classroom Strategies
• Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 2-3): Morphemic Elements
• Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 2-3): Word Analysis
• Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 2-3): Word Knowledge
• Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 2-3): Word Meaning
• Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 2-3): Words in Context
• Linking the Language: A Cross-Disciplinary Vocabulary Approach
• A Multidimensional Approach to Vocabulary Instruction: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
• Planning for Vocabulary Instruction:  Selecting Vocabulary Words to Preteach Before Reading
• Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
• Reading Rockets: Vocabulary
• Target 2% Lessons to Support Vocabulary for Grades K through 5
• Using Multimedia to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
• Vocabulary Activities for Extended Student Practice
• Vocabulary Lesson Plan
• Ways to Build Word Knowledge
  
   

• Cause and Effect – 3rd Grade (video)
• Classroom Strategies
• Comprehension Instruction
• Comprehension: Jigsaw Strategy (video)
• Comprehension: Teaching Strategies and Examples, from the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon
• Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 2-3): Expository Text Structure
• Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 2-3): Monitoring for Understanding
• Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 2-3): Narrative Text Structure
• Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 2-3): Text Analysis
• Helping Elementary Students Read for Information
• Higher Order Thinking Question Stems
• How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
• How to Increase Higher Order Thinking
• 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
• Using Thinkalouds with Fiction and Nonfiction Text (video)

• Classroom Strategies
• Differentiated Instruction for Writing
• Reading Rockets: Writing
• Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers (What Works Clearing House/IES)
• Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age
• Writing Poetry with English Language Learners
• Writing (Third Grade)

• 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

• Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
• 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 (What Works Clearinghouse/IES)
• How Spelling Supports Reading and Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think
• Student Center Activities, Grades 2-3
• Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: Do Children Learn to Read Naturally?
• Word and Sentence Dictation (video)