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Doing What Works

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

Doing What Works

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

Topic: Beginning Reading

Doing What Works

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

Doing What Works

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

Idaho Commission for Libraries

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

Idaho Commission for Libraries

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

National Center on Intensive Interventions

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

Topic: Vocabulary

National Center on Intensive Interventions

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

Topic: Vocabulary

National Center on Intensive Interventions

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

Topic: Vocabulary

Doing What Works

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

U.S. Department of Education

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

Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

This page includes Washington's resources related to dyslexia.

Topic: Dyslexia

Doing What Works

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

Web Accessibility Initiative

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

NCLD

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

Understood

Watch an expert explain more about academic modifications.

Topic: Advocacy, Reading Disabilities

CEEDAR Center

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

Children's Learning Institute at UTHealth (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

Complete this activity with your preschooler to practice using a variety of words to describe different items.

Topic: Language Development, Vocabulary

Reading is Fundamental

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

U.S. Department of Education

In this hour and half video presentation, two nationally recognized experts and a classroom teacher who presented at the 2022 OSEP Leader and Project Directors’ Conference explain what comprehensive literacy instruction looks like for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

Topic: Evidence-based, Instruction, Reading Disabilities

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