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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.

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.

A reading intervention teacher, uses this vocabulary chart to provide secondary students with a structure for learning word meaning. Watch the presentation in the "See How" section of the "Intensive Intervention" collection, High School Academic Literacy Intervention Class, to see her classroom in action.

A school teacher uses this template designed by Jim Burke to help students who struggle with reading get organized, motivated, and set weekly academic goals. Learn more about her approach in the presentation, High School Academic Literacy Intervention Class.

For working with schools on a set of options that can be implemented at the school level for improving practice, including scheduling, professional development, policies, and so forth.

This is an annual report from Pennsylvania's Dyslexia Screening and Intervention pilot program.

This guide offers five specific recommendations to help educators identify struggling readers and implement evidence-based strategies to promote their reading achievement.

Faith Giddens, curriculum planner and testing coordinator, describes how secondary school staff collaborates to design interventions based on assessment results, team reviews of student work, and data-driven success plans. View the sample material, Planning for Student Success.

People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

This tool is meant to accompany the IES rubric for evaluating instructional materials in grades K-5.

Dr. Don Deshler describes the characteristics of research-based, explicit, comprehension strategy instruction for adolescents, including modeling, scaffolding, and opportunities for practice in a variety of contexts.

Principals and reading specialists are encouraged to use this tool to assess the status of their school's adolescent literacy intervention opportunities for the purpose of strengthening the school's approach.

This infographic describes what variables school should consider when implementing early literacy interventions.

This toolkit provides activities and resources to assist practitioners in designing and delivering intensive interventions in reading and mathematics for K-12 students with significant learning difficulties and disabilities. It is based on the Center on Instruction's Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics: A Practice Guide.

Listen to Dr. Deshler explain why some adolescents struggle with reading and the need for reliable student assessments and qualified specialists to provide intensive and individualized interventions. He also discusses why schoolwide teacher collaboration across content areas is essential for improving outcomes for struggling readers.

Read this handbook to learn how support students with dyslexia within an RTI or MTSS framework

This module provides materials and support that link the available research to improved teacher practice in improving literacy skills of older students.

Read presentation slides summarizing ways to enhance phonological awareness instruction in core reading contexts.

This module, the second in a series of three, discusses implementing an evidence-based practice or program with fidelity (est. completion time: 1 hour).

This module, the third in a series of three, examines how to evaluate whether an evidence-based practice is effective for the young children or students with whom you are working (est. completion time: 2 hours). Consider completing parts one and two before beginning this resource.