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Supporting All Learners
  • Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
  • Classroom Reading Instruction That Supports Struggling Readers:  Key Components for Effective Teaching
  • 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”

English Language Learners

  • Accessing Students' Background Knowledge in the ELL Classroom (link unavailable)
  • 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 (link unavailable)
  • 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)
  • Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs (link unavailable)
  • Reading Poetry with English Language Learners (link unavailable)
  • 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
  • Supporting ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom: Reading Instruction (link unavailable)
  • 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)
Word Study and Recognition
  • Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms
  • Building Words with Morphemes
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Daily Sample Lessons/Activities: Phonics/Word Study
  • Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Word Recognition and Fluency
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Advanced Phonics Centers (Grades 4-5): Morpheme Structures
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Advanced Phonics Centers (Grades 4-5): Syllable Patterns
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Advanced Phonics Centers (Grades 4-5): Variant Correspondences
  • How Spelling Supports Reading and Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think
  • Key Literacy Component: Morphology
  • 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
  • Word Study: A New Approach to Teaching Spelling
Fluency
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Word Recognition and Fluency
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers (Grades 4-5): Chunked Text
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers (Grades 4-5): Connected Text
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers (Grades 4-5): Phrases
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers (Grades 4-5): Word Parts
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Fluency Centers (Grades 4-5): Words
  • Fluency: Error Correction Cards
  • Fluency: Partner Reading with Retell
  • Fluency: Partnering Students
  • Paired Reading (link unavailable)
  • Reading Fluency Viewed as Neglected Skill
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Fluency for Grades K through 5
  • Timed Repeated Reading (link unavailable)
Vocabulary
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Word Recognition and Fluency
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 4-5): Morphemic Elements
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 4-5): Word Analysis
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 4-5): Word Knowledge
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 4-5): Word Meaning
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Vocabulary Centers (Grades 4-5): Words in Context
  • 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)
  • Target 2% Lessons to Support Vocabulary for Grades K through 5
  • Using Multimedia to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Supporting English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms (link unavailable)
  • Vocabulary Activities for Extended Student Practice
  • Vocabulary and Background Knowledge Frontloading (part 1)
  • Vocabulary and Background Knowledge Frontloading (part 2)
  • Vocabulary Lesson Plan
  • Vocabulary Review
  • Ways to Build Word Knowledge
Comprehension
  • Classroom Strategies (link unavailable)
  • Comprehension Instruction
  • Comprehension: Teaching Strategies and Examples, from the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon
  • Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Vocabulary and Comprehension
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 4-5): Expository Text Structure
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 4-5): Monitoring for Understanding
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 4-5): Narrative Text Structure
  • Florida Center for Reading Research Comprehension Centers (Grades 4-5): Text Analysis
  • Higher Order Thinking Question Stems
  • How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
  • How to Increase Higher Order Thinking (link unavailable)
  • 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)
  • 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 (link unavailable)
Motivating and Engaging Students
  • Best Practice for RTI: Differentiated Reading Instruction for All Students (Tier 1) (link unavailable)
  • Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction (link unavailable)
  • 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
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
  • Comprehension: Teaching Strategies and Examples, from the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon
  • Find What Works based on the evidence: Literacy
  • How Spelling Supports Reading and Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think
  • Key Literacy Component: Decoding
  • Student Center Activities, Grades 4-5
  • Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: Do Children Learn to Read Naturally?