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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