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Supporting school systems to effectively teach essential literacy content to all students, including students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities.
Building capacity related to implementation of a universal screening process to identify students at risk for reading difficulties, including dyslexia.
Support the systems-level coordination of schoolwide reading efforts designed to meet the needs of all learners, including students with or at risk for literacy-related outcomes.
Intensification of instruction and intervention to comprehensively support the individual needs of students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities.
Use of Response to Intervention in reading to determine special education eligibility in schools that use a multi-tiered systems of support approach.
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This toolkit helps parents and educators learn about dyslexia and how to support the literacy development of students with dyslexia.
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.
Phonological awareness is like an umbrella. Rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, onset and rime, and phonemic awareness all exist under this umbrella with phonemic awareness being the most advanced skill of phonological awareness.
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Use this matrix to evaluate teacher preparation and professional development programs in the area of evidence-based reading instruction for Grades K-5.
Topic: Professional Development, Reading Disabilities
This meta-analysis offers decision-makers research-based guidance for intervening with adolescent struggling readers.
Topic: Dyslexia, Interventions, Reading Disabilities, Adolescent Literacy
Find links to Oregon's dyslexia screening plan, the Oregon Dyslexia Advisory Council, and OSEP guidance letters.
Topic: Dyslexia
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
