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Doing What Works

High school teacher Jim Burke uses these note-taking templates with his high school English students to help them understand landmark speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Barack Obama.

Topic: Comprehension, Adolescent Literacy

Doing What Works

This organizer was used by a third-grade teacher to teach the compare and contrast nonfiction text structure. It includes filled-in student examples, sections for recording similarities and differences, and clue word comparisons. Watch the presentation Compare-Contrast Graphic Organizer: A Whale Is Not a Fish to see how this tool is used.

Topic: Comprehension

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on building automaticity with letter sounds may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Fluency with Text

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on phonics may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Phonics

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on onset rime may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Phonics, Beginning Reading

Doing What Works

This daily lesson plan format emphasizes activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes and includes an example of interactive reading objectives.

Topic: Professional Development

Doing What Works

Review a daily lesson plan format that emphasizes preschool activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes. Examples of phonological awareness objectives are included.

Topic: Phonological Awareness

Doing What Works

The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) has developed instructional routines for teaching foundational reading skills in grades K-3, including phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. Included here are four routines: Kindergarten phonemic awareness, Grade 1 phonics, Grade 1 comprehension, and Grade 2 fluency.

Topic: Beginning Reading

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on nonsense words may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Vocabulary

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson contains graphic organizers for identifying text structures.

Topic: Comprehension

Doing What Works

Download the lesson plan that the seventh-grade language arts teacher follows in the presentation, Greek Myths: Understanding Word Roots and Meanings. A vocabulary word list, word assignment and map, and student riddle poems provide students with opportunities to practice vocabulary skills in varied contexts.

Topic: Vocabulary

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on decoding may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Phonics

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on words with multiple meanings may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Vocabulary

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on expository text-structures may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Comprehension

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on identifying text structures may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Comprehension

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on narrative text-structures may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Comprehension

PowerUp What Works

English language arts teaching strategies: conducting research, context clues, drafting, fluency, presenting, prewriting, reviewing, self-questioning, semantic mapping, summarizing, visualizing, and word analysis.

Topic: Remote Learning, Vocabulary, Writing, Comprehension, Adolescent Literacy

Doing What Works

This plan was developed by a kindergarten teacher. It provides details on standards, objectives, and essential questions guiding text structure instruction, and describes lesson activities and ways to extend student learning. View the presentation Teaching Character and Setting in an Inclusion Classroom to see how the lesson was implemented.

Topic: Comprehension

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson on phonics may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

Topic: Phonics

National Center on Intensive Interventions

This lesson may be used to supplement reading instruction on building automaticity with letter sounds.

Topic: Fluency with Text

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