Home
Published on Texas Gateway (https://texasgateway.org)
i

Website Maintenance Notice

We’re currently performing scheduled maintenance to update and improve our site. Some content may be temporarily unavailable as we retire legacy materials that no longer meet current standards. Thank you for your patience as we work to enhance your experience.
i

 

We’d love your feedback—just follow the link to a short survey on ease of access and navigation. Your feedback makes a big difference!

https://tea.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hQHkQnnUhSu4UC

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  (link unavailable)
  • A Multidimensional Approach to Vocabulary Instruction: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms  (link unavailable)
  • 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 Support for Spanish-Speaking Students in Elementary Classrooms
  • Recognizing and Classifying Letters (Spanish)
  • 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
  • Supporting ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom: Reading Instruction  (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 (Kindergarten)
  • 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)
  • Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs  (link unavailable)
  • Reading, Writing, and Role Play (video)
  • 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
  • Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten  (link unavailable)
  • 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)
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonological Awareness Centers: Phoneme Isolating & Phoneme Segmenting
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonological Awareness Centers: Phoneme Matching
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonological Awareness Centers: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending & Phoneme Manipulating
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonological Awareness Centers: Rhyme & Alliteration
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonological Awareness Centers: Sentence Segmentation & Syllables & Onset and Rime
  • Onset/Rime Games (link unavailable)
  • Phonological Awareness
  • Phonological Awareness (Kindergarten)
  • 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: Alphabetic Understanding
  • Alphabet Matching  (link unavailable)
  • Alphabetic Understanding and Phonics (video)
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Letter Recognition
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Letter-Sound Correspondence
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonics for Grades K through 5
Phonics: Decoding and Spelling
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Daily Sample Lessons/Activities: Phonics/Word Study
  • Decoding Instruction - Kindergarten (video)
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Encoding and Decoding
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: High Frequency Words
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Onset and Rime
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Syllable Patterns and Morpheme Structures
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Phonic Centers: Variant Correspondences
  • Guidelines for Examining Phonics and Word Recognition
  • Letter Recognition Activities (video)
  • Sample of Daily Lessons for Phonics
  • Sound-Spelling chart
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Phonics for Grades K through 5
  • Teaching Tutorial: Decoding Instruction
Vocabulary
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers
  • 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: Teaching Vocabulary (link unavailable)
  • Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language to Build Young Children's Vocabularies
  • 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 Instruction
Reading Comprehension
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Comprehension Instruction
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers
  • How to Increase Higher Order Thinking (link unavailable)
  • Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (What Works Clearinghouse/IES)
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K through 5
  • Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension in English
Writing
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Instruction for Writing (link unavailable)
  • Reading Rockets: Writing (link unavailable)
  • Reading, Writing, and Role Play (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 professional development module
  • 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
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers
  • 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?