Parent Resources
These resources are for parents and caregivers who want to learn more about RTI. You’ll find information about RTI and activities you can do at home with your child in both English and Spanish.
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk Resources
How Do I Engage in Partner Reading With My Child?
Middle school students are expected to read and comprehend upper-level text. You might be wondering whether there are things you can do at home to improve your child’s reading skills. Partner reading is an easy way to do just that by providing your child with more reading practice!
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Is Your Child Benefiting From High-Quality Literacy Practices?
This flyer outlines five items that benefit struggling readers and of questions that parents can ask as a starting point to gauge the quality of a school's literacy practices.
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Comprehension Instruction
Booklet about research-based comprehension instruction, including explicit strategy lessons and questioning the author.
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Research-Based Content Area Reading Instruction
Booklet that describes teaching expository texts, vocabulary, word identification, reading fluency, and comprehension strategies across all classrooms.
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Beginning Reading Instruction: Components and Features of a Research-Based Reading Program
Booklet describing an effective elementary reading program, including 12 essential instructional components, 8 campus-level features, and 8 instructional features related to struggling readers.
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Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Booklet with vocabulary lesson ideas and strategies, including explicit instruction, concept maps, word webs, semantic feature analysis, and advanced word study.
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Beginning Reading Instruction: Practical Ideas for Parents
Parent booklet describing specific, simple activities to support a child’s literacy at home.
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Guidelines for Examining Phonics & Word Recognition
Booklet with guidelines and checklists describing research-based phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling, word study, and fluency instruction. Includes tool for examining components of a reading program.
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