Resource Repository

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.

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.

This guide is organized by commonly experienced challenges (e.g., lack of modeling) to teachers
implementing evidence-based adolescent literacy practices with fidelity. Also provided are an explanation
of each challenge and resources from established organizations and research centers that instructional
leaders can use to address these challenges.

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.