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Shared reading is a great way to develop children's language and communication and to boost their reading skills. These tips help support children ages 5 to 7.

Talking to your child's teacher about dyslexia is important. Here are eight tips to help you have productive conversations.

This booklet describes activities that parents can do with their children to improve reading skills at specific ages from birth through Preschool.

This booklet describes activities that parents can do with their children to improve reading skills at specific ages from kindergarten through third grade.

In this interview, Dr. Curtis describes what good vocabulary instruction would look like in a classroom. She addresses the need for explicit instruction and multiple practice opportunities in a variety of contexts.

This report describes findings from an evaluation of Mississippi's dyslexia pilot programs.

This guide provides detailed recommendations for implementing an assessment system from practical experiences in helping many school leaders implement successful plans.

This guide provides you with information on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home.

Dr. Nell Duke describes the "gradual release of responsibility" instructional approach to reading instruction, which involves explicit modeling and opportunities for guided practice leading to students' independent use of a particular skill or strategy.

This guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It is a companion to the What Works Clearninghouse Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.

This is a course based on information and ideas shared when the CCSSO assembled state chiefs, reading experts, policy experts, and other stakeholder groups for an open dialogue on how state education agencies can improve reading skills for all students.

This resource delves into the four concrete actions that state leaders can take to support state leaders as they continue to address the critical issue of improving reading skills for all students.

Read a fact sheet that discusses effective reading instruction and how educators develop and implement effective instruction.

To assist you in helping families support literacy, the Georgia Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast to create a suite of grade-specific Teacher's Guides that certified teachers can use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children at home.

This video walks viewers through a 3-step routine for teaching new vocabulary to young children that includes lots of opportunities to practice using the new word in different ways through repetition, images, sentence frames, and more. It can be adapted for at-home learning and to supplement family reading activities.

The information in this Third Grade Teacher's Guide is designed to assist teachers in supporting out-of-school literacy activities that are aligned to classroom instruction, informed by student need, grounded in evidence-based practices, and facilitated by ongoing parent-teacher communication. The Teacher's Guide provides a framework for literacy support activities presented during schools' family literacy nights and parent-teacher conferences.

A preschool teacher discusses how she plans early literacy and language instruction, extends learning through teachable moments, and monitors student learning using a thematic unit on oceans.

This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy.

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students with disabilities during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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.