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This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists and other technical assistance providers in their work with states to improve educational policy and practice in adolescent literacy.
Topic: Assessments, Adolescent Literacy


This guide offers five specific recommendations to help educators identify struggling readers and implement evidence-based strategies to promote their reading achievement.
Topic: Evidence-based, Interventions


A guide to AT tools for reading and where to find them.
Topic: Advocacy, Reading Disabilities, Dyslexia


Learn about tools to help your child with reading and writing.
Topic: Dyslexia, Advocacy, Reading Disabilities


This organizer was used by a third-grade teacher to teach the compare and contrast nonfiction text structure. It includes filled-in student examples, sections for recording similarities and differences, and clue word comparisons. Watch the presentation Compare-Contrast Graphic Organizer: A Whale Is Not a Fish to see how this tool is used.
Topic: Comprehension


Read this infographic to learn ways to model reading with children.
Topic: General Literacy


This infographic provides ways to model reading with children.
Topic: General Literacy, Spanish


This infographic provides strategies for families to use before, during, and after reading with children.
Topic: Comprehension


This infographic provides strategies for families to use before, during, and after reading with children.
Topic: Comprehension, Spanish


Use this activity to practice recognizing words with your preschooler and create a collage of pictures of words with identical initial sounds.
Topic: Phonemic Awareness


Faith Giddens, curriculum planner and testing coordinator, describes how secondary school staff collaborates to design interventions based on assessment results, team reviews of student work, and data-driven success plans. View the sample material, Planning for Student Success.
Topic: Interventions, Professional Development, Screening


This infographic provides questions and strategies for creating take-home packets to support distance learning.
Topic: Remote Learning


Get advice from a mom who's advocated for her son's learning needs
Topic: Advocacy, Reading Disabilities


This booklet shares family common goals about literacy for their children along with actions to take that match the goals.
Topic: Beginning Reading


This webpage gives an overview of the Five Big Ideas in Beginning Reading.
Topic: Beginning Reading


Use this Screening passport to learn about the importance of developmental Screening and monitoring, and track and monitor developmental milestones with your doctor.
Topic: Identification


Read descriptions of specific activities that involve blending and segmenting sounds; includes activities for whole-class, small-group, and individual instructional contexts.
Topic: Phonemic Awareness



People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.
Topic: Interventions


This document provides research-based guidance on academic literacy instruction in the content areas. It is intended for use by literacy specialists and other technical assistance providers in their work with states to improve educational policy and practice in adolescent literacy.
Topic: Comprehension, Vocabulary, 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 during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Topic: Remote Learning


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The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2023 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliteracy.org