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Read these tips for helping your child figure out when to ask for help with reading (Spanish version).
Topic: Writing, Spanish


English teacher Jim Burke created this template to help secondary students take notes as they read a text.
Topic: Comprehension, Adolescent Literacy


This student booklet was created by a second-grade teacher to help her students keep track of the reading strategies they have learned and to remind them to use them as they read. Watch the presentation, Targeting Reading Strategies: Summarizing to hear how Stanley uses these booklets in her classroom.
Topic: Comprehension


Read these tips for helping your child figure out when to ask for help with reading.
Topic: Comprehension


Here are 10 stay-calm phrases you can use to redirect conversation and defuse tense situations.
Topic: Advocacy


This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to implement in-school tutoring.
Topic: Interventions, Reading Disabilities


This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve reading intervention. Also included is a list of research evidence supporting the recommendations.
Topic: Reading Disabilities, Interventions



The ninth installment of MCPER's "10 Key" series, this document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve instruction for English language learners.
Topic: English Learners



This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve elementary students' reading outcomes. Also included are descriptions of what students should know and be able to do at the elementary grade levels.
Topic: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Writing



This handbook describes ten reading practices for middle and high schools with strong evidence of effectiveness from high-quality research, including selected grade level descriptions of what students should know and be able to do.
Topic: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Writing, Adolescent Literacy


The second installment of MCPER's new "10 Key" series, this document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve students' writing outcomes.
Topic: Writing



In this video, Understood explains its top 10 tips for a better IEP meeting.
Topic: Advocacy


Watch this presentation to learn some useful rules about phonics and spelling.
Topic: Writing, Phonics


These documents were developed for the 2020-21 academic year in response to the disruption of the global pandemic of COVID-19. They provide guidance for the field about the content priorities by leveraging the structure and emphases of college- and career-ready mathematics and ELA/literacy standards.
Topic: Remote Learning, Adolescent Literacy


This checklist shares three questions for families to ask before downloading apps for kids.
Topic: Advocacy


Here are questions parents and educators can ask to clarify the terms: dyslexia, learning disabilities, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia.
Topic: Dyslexia, Reading Disabilities


Learn how to build self-advocacy skills to help you get what they need. Rehearsing common situations can help you know where to start.
Topic: Advocacy, Adolescent Literacy


Shifts that successful schools, organizations, and coalitions are making to develop key character strengths in youth.
Topic: Partnerships


Use these seven tips to help improve your child's reading comprehension.
Topic: Comprehension


Shared reading is a great way to develop children's language and communication and to boost reading skills. These tips help support children ages 7 to 11.
Topic: Comprehension


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The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2023 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliteracy.org