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ACCESS Class Weekly Record and Program Overview
Doing What Works
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.
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Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) for Dyslexia Video
Maine Parent Federation and Main AIM Program
Watch a video that gives an overview of dyslexia and Accessible Instructional Materials to support children with dyslexia.
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Accommodations for Students with Dyslexia
Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia
Read this infographic to learn potential accommodations for students with dyslexia.
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Accommodations: What they are and how they work
Understood
This resource provides quick tips for accommodations and how they work.
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Active Listening Explained + 7 Ways to Get Started!
KidsRead2Kids
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.
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Activities for Young Children: Providing Practice for Development
Learning Disabilities Association of America
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.
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Activities that Build Writing Skills
Reading is Fundamental
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.
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Addressing the Reading Needs of Academically Diverse Students in Content-Area Classes
IRIS Center
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.
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Addressing Unfinished Learning After COVID-19 School Closures
Council of the Great City Schools
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.
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Adiciónes educativas: La escritura
Reading Rockets
Read this tip sheet for activities to develop beginning writing skills.
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Adolescent Literacy
Doing What Works
Watch this multimedia overview to learn about five research-based, instructional practice recommendations for improving literacy levels in middle and high school.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #1
Doing What Works
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.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #2
Doing What Works
Use this template with districts to translate research-based recommendations into practical policies and activities.
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Adolescent Literacy Planning Template #3
Doing What Works
Use this template with state education agencies to facilitate conversations about setting a policy climate for improving practices at the district and state level.
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Adolescent Literacy Resource Menu: A Guide for Instructional Leaders
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
This guide is organized by commonly experienced challenges (e.g., lack of modeling) to teachers implementing evidence-based adolescent literacy practices with fidelity.
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Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders
The Center on Instruction
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.
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Advanced Phonics and Decoding: Perfecting Our Craft and Planning for the Future, 2nd-3rd Grades
Oregon Reading First Center
This document includes resources for delivering structural analysis instruction for 2nd and 3rd grade students (including practice words and presentation slides).
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Advocacy Fact Sheets (Multiple Languages)
Parent Network of Western New York
This document includes resources for delivering structural analysis instruction for 2nd and 3rd grade students (including practice words and presentation slides).
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Advocacy in Action: A Guide to Local Special Education Parent Advisory Councils
The Center for Parent Information & Resources
The Center for Parent Information and Resources offers this guide as a road map to help bring stakeholders together, suggests strategies to help them engage in dialogue, and discusses best practices to help them work together to benefit the local community.
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Advocating for Yourself in Middle School and High School
Family Voices
This resource explains how to get what you need as a middle and high school student.