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This diagram serves as a visual overview of four recommended practices based on the Improving Adolescent Literacy Practice Guide. The diagram can be used by presenters or professional developers to orient their audience to the central practices and recommendations in the Adolescent Literacy topic.
Topic: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Adolescent Literacy


This visual diagram can be used to engage preschool teachers in discussion about their early literacy instruction.
Topic: Beginning Reading


The diagram serves as a visual overview of three recommended practices based on the Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade Practice Guide-teach comprehension strategies, focus on text structure, and engage students with text. It can be used by presenters or professional developers to orient their audience to the practices and recommendations central to the K-3 Reading Comprehension topic.
Topic: Comprehension, Professional Development



The visual diagram illustrates three essential practices (universal screening, progress monitoring and differentiation, and systematic skill instruction) based on the recommendations in the Practice Guide.
Topic: General Literacy


This sheet by the Idaho Commission for Libraries includes an activity, song, and
tips to help develop your young child's language and vocabulary skills.
Topic: Language Development, Vocabulary


This sheet by the Idaho Commission for Libraries includes an activity, song, and
tips to help develop your young child's language and vocabulary skills.
Topic: Language Development, Vocabulary, Spanish


This lesson on affixes and suffixes may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.
Topic: Vocabulary


This lesson on base words and prefixes may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.
Topic: Vocabulary


This vocabulary lesson may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.
Topic: Vocabulary


Consider using this planner as a resource to help teachers plan how they will highlight and explicitly teach vocabulary words they have selected from a story.
Topic: Vocabulary, Beginning Reading


This guide focuses on health and safety measures that schools can use to successfully implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) K-12 Operational Strategy.
Topic: Remote Learning



This page includes Washington's resources related to dyslexia.
Topic: Dyslexia



Listen to a literacy coach discuss why it's important to teach text structure beginning in kindergarten. She describes the differences between narrative and expository text structure and gives examples of teaching tools.
Topic: Comprehension


This page introduces some of the web accessibility requirements for websites, web applications, browsers, and other tools. It provides references to the international standards from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Topic: Remote Learning


This paper describes the exclusionary factors contained in federal law and regulation and highlights the specific challenges associated with applying these factors during the evaluation process.
Topic: Identification, Legislation



Watch an expert explain more about academic modifications.
Topic: Advocacy, Reading Disabilities


A webinar on making evidence-based decisions about instruction and interventions within a framework of a multi-tiered system of support. This webinar was a collaborative effort between the American Institutes for Research, the National Center for Systemic Improvement and the CEEDAR Center.
Topic: Evidence-based, Interventions



Complete this activity with your preschooler to practice using a variety of words to describe different items.
Topic: Language Development, Vocabulary


This Reading is Fundamental resource includes tips and strategies for helping older toddlers and preschoolers develop language skills and become equal and active partners in conversations.
Topic: Language Development


In this hour and half video presentation, two nationally recognized experts and a classroom teacher who presented at the 2022 OSEP Leader and Project Directorsâ Conference explain what comprehensive literacy instruction looks like for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
Topic: Evidence-based, Instruction, Reading Disabilities



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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