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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: How Should We Teach Students to Read Unknown Words?
Online professional development module addressing the questions: “Should I teach students to use semantics and syntax to read words they don’t know? Should I teach students to guess a word based on pictures, context, and/or the first letter of the word?” And, "When a student struggles with the alphabetic principle, should I have him practice reading in decodable texts, or leveled/predictable texts or both?"
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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: What Do We Know About “Balanced” Literacy?
Online professional development module addressing the question: “What Do We Know About “Balanced” Literacy?”
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National Mathematics Panel: Implications for Policy and Practice (PDF of presentation)
PowerPoint describing research-based math instruction, including developing students’ conceptual understanding, computational fluency, and problem-solving skills.
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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: Do Children Learn to Read Naturally?
Online professional development module addressing the question: “I think learning to read is like learning to speak. It’s developed through a process that all children naturally go through. Isn’t this correct?”
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MSTAR Interventions
Meadows Center website that provides materials for math interventions at upper elementary and secondary levels.
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Project ELITE
Web page with information and resources related to implementing RTI within a culturally-responsive framework designed to meet the needs of English learners.
Get Resource Reading Instruction for Middle School Students: Developing Lessons for Improving Comprehension
Booklet with lesson plans and materials for teaching vocabulary and comprehension within a Tier 2 reading intervention for secondary students.
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Web page with lesson plans for reading interventions at both the elementary level and the middle school level.
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