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

NCII provides a series of reading lessons to support special education instructors, reading interventionists, and others working with students who struggle with reading. These lessons, adapted with permission from the Florida Center for Reading Research and Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, address key reading and prereading skills

This set of materials, provided by Rebecca Wieder, includes a lesson plan for literature circles as well as the following materials for secondary students: a description of student roles in literature circles, a reflection assignment, and sentence starters for discussions.

The Mark It Up! strategy is used by eighth-grade language arts teacher Kelly O'Brien to scaffold small group text discussions. The teacher's lesson plan, text discussion, Mark It Up! guidelines, and theme activities are included here to show how the teacher supports students in making text connections.

View a lesson plan used by a seventh-grade teacher to integrate vocabulary games into math instruction. Also included are a PowerPoint for teaching math-related vocabulary words and a handout listing vocabulary words and homework assignments for the week. Watch Building Vocabulary in Middle School Math Class to see how vocabulary games are used in a lesson on consumer math.

This resource contains sample materials for using the PACT instructional procedures in English language arts, science, and social studies classrooms.

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

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

Use this guide to plan Tier 2 lessons on phonological awareness.

This lesson on blending may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs. Each standard-aligned lesson plan includes a clear objective and embeds key instructional principles into the activities.

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

This supplementary lesson on phonological awareness may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

This lesson on syllable isolation may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs. Each standard-aligned lesson plan includes a clear objective and embeds key instructional principles into the activities.

See an example lesson plan sequence focusing on 1st grade phonemic awareness and phonics instruction.

Use this dialogic reading planning tool to help teachers develop questions and prompts for repeated readings of a storybook using the framework described in A Three-Level Framework for Dialogic Reading.

Use this guide to plan Tier 2 lessons that promote fluency.

This sample material includes lesson plans for two interactive read-alouds in first/second grade: one about trees for a science lesson and the other about sorting for a math lesson. Listen to the teacher describe how she conducts the read-alouds in the video, Read-Alouds Across the Curriculum.

This sample material outlines the sequence of a literature circles lesson, describes the student roles, and includes worksheets for each role. Also included here are several evaluation forms students use to reflect on the quality of their discussions. Watch the presentation, Literature Circles in Second Grade, to see the lesson in action.

This lesson on long and short letter sounds may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.

This PowerPoint outlines a seventh-grade social studies lesson that scaffolds text discussion strategies to help students develop an understanding of the experiences of Chernobyl survivors. The lesson plan includes student guidelines for engaging in partner and small group discussions.