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The Texas Education Agency's Texas Gateway provides professional development material, Building Blocks for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties, developed as a part of the Texas Adolescent Reading Academies, or TALA. Included in this series are materials that focus on the following:
- Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy
- Spelling Rules and Irregular Words
- Letter Sounds
- Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words/Closed Syllables
- Consonant Digraphs
- Consonant Blends
- R-Controlled Syllables
- Vowel-Consonant-e (VCe) Syllables
- Letter Combinations
- Open Syllables
- Contractions
- Compound Words
- Affixes with Unchanging Base Words
- The -ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
- Multisyllabic Words
- Consonant-le (Cle) Syllables
- Soft c and Soft g
- Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent e Base Words
- Adding Suffixes that Change Base Words’ Final y to i
Related Resources:
Booklets
Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Word Recognition and Fluency
Booklet with step-by-step lessons for teaching word recognition and fluency.
Booklets
Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties: The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook
Booklet with lessons and materials for teaching older struggling readers.
Booklets
Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Booklet with step-by-step lessons for teaching vocabulary and comprehension.
Booklets
Establishing an Intensive Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students (Revised)
Professional development guide that provides in-depth background knowledge about adolescent literacy, specifically related to struggling readers and writers.
Booklets
Meeting the Needs of Struggling Readers: A Resource for Secondary English Language Arts Teachers
Booklet with lessons and strategies for teaching comprehension and vocabulary to secondary students.
Videos
Word Identification Strategies: HINTS and SPLIT Strategies
Video that illustrates two strategies for teaching multisyllabic word reading.
Modules
Secondary RTI: Providing Instruction in Teacher-Led Small Groups Module One
First in a series of three online professional development modules demonstrating the contribution of well-managed teacher-led small groups and centers to effective RTI implementation at secondary campuses.