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Remote literacy learning is a collaboration among schools, families, and students.
Remote literacy learning includes a mixture of literacy learning experiences that are teacher-led, family-led, and student-led. It is a collaboration among schools, families, and students. Schools play an important role in providing families and students support.
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Signs of typical reading development and possible indicators of risk for dyslexia.
The characteristics of dyslexia legislation.
Expert: Nadine Gaab Ph.D.
There is broad agreement that schools should implement early screening and intervention programs. State legislation generally favors the use of universal screening within schools across grades K-2.
Validity is broadly defined as how well something measures what it’s supposed to measure. The reliability and validity of scores from assessments are two concepts that are closely knit together and feed into each other.
Sample representativeness is an important piece to consider when evaluating the quality of a screening assessment. If you are trying to determine whether or not the screening tool accurately measures children’s skills, you want to ensure that the sample that is used to validate the tool is representative of your population of interest.
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Watch a literacy coach discuss progress monitoring and ways to support teachers in using assessment data to plan instruction.
Topic: General Literacy, Assessments
Ninth-grade Humanities teacher Rebecca Wieder describes how she facilitates literature circle discussions. Wieder's students discuss a novel in groups where each plays a role: summarizer, discussion director, connector, literary luminary, and literary terms expert. Watch how she sets goals with her class for effective group discussions.
Topic: Comprehension
This study identified rigorous evidence from research conducted from 1997 to 2017 on the effectiveness of early childhood curricula, lesson packages, instructional practices, and technology programs that aim to improve students' language, phonological awareness, print knowledge, decoding, early writing, and general literacy performance.
Topic: Evidence-based, General Literacy, Beginning Reading
Sample Representativeness
Definition
How well a sample in a scientific study corresponds to the population in which the study’s findings will be applied. For instance, nationally representative samples of students are often desirable when research findings will be applied nationally.
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 © 2022 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org
