Resource Repository

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.

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

Read this infographic to learn potential accommodations for students with dyslexia.

This resource provides quick tips for accommodations and how they work.

This flyer for parents provides five research-based strategies and examples for supporting adolescents' writing development.

Active Listening is a key tool in school and in life. However, it is not taught in class and can be difficult to learn. Here are our tips and tricks to get started.

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.

Parents can help students use comprehension strategies when reading at home. Here are two evidence-based strategies to try.

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.

This guide focuses on the instructional challenges posed by school closures. In particular, it presents district curriculum leaders and staff with an instructional framework and additional resources for addressing unfinished learning and learning losses, as well as a review of essential skills and content in English language arts and mathematics to support access to grade-level content in key grade transitions for all students.

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.

This guide is organized by commonly experienced challenges (e.g., lack of modeling) to teachers implementing evidence-based adolescent literacy practices with fidelity.

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.

This document includes resources for delivering structural analysis instruction for 2nd and 3rd grade students (including practice words and presentation slides).

These informational sheets include tips for communicating at a meeting and written communication and six skills to be an effective advocate in multiple languages.