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
- 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 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
- Reader's Theater: Oral Language Enrichment and Literacy Development for ELLs
- Reading Poetry with English Language Learners
- 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
- 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
Word Study and Recognition
- Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms
- Building Words with Morphemes
- Classroom Strategies
- 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
- 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
- Reading Fluency Viewed as Neglected Skill
- Target 2% Lessons to Support Fluency for Grades K through 5
- Timed Repeated Reading
Vocabulary
- Classroom Strategies
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K through 5
- Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension
Writing
Motivating and Engaging Students
- Best Practice for RTI: Differentiated Reading Instruction for All Students (Tier 1)
- Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction
- Differentiated Instruction for Reading
- Differentiated Instruction for Writing
- Differentiated Instruction: Key to Student Success
- Embedded Supports to Differentiate Instruction for Struggling Students
- Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading
- 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?