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Watch a video that gives an overview of dyslexia and Accessible Instructional Materials to support children with dyslexia.

This article gives ideas for giving young children with learning disabilities opportunities to practice the skills they are taught. Ideas include playing games using newly learned letters and words; finding numbers, letters and words in everyday items; and games that provide practice with numbers, letters, words and concepts.

This Reading is Fundamental resource offers suggestions for play activities to help young children build language, thinking, and physical skills that they will use to develop early writing skills.

Don Deshler, Professor of Special Education and Director of the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas, discusses some of the challenges related to addressing the reading needs of academically diverse students in content-area classes.

Read this tip sheet for activities to develop beginning writing skills.

Watch this multimedia overview to learn about five research-based, instructional practice recommendations for improving literacy levels in middle and high school.

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.

Use this template with districts to translate research-based recommendations into practical policies and activities.

Use this template with state education agencies to facilitate conversations about setting a policy climate for improving practices at the district and state level.

The purpose of this Adolescent Literacy Walk-Through for Principals (ALWP) is to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively.