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Resource Series for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties
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.
Get Resource Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
Web page with a booklet that presents recommendations for improving student learning: space learning over time, use both worked examples and problem-solving exercises, combine graphics with oral descriptions, connect abstract and concrete representations, and use quizzes.
Get Resource Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
Companion website to Explicit Instruction (Archer & Hughes, 2011). Provides videos of effective instruction at the elementary and secondary levels in reading, language arts, and math classes.
Get Resource Teaching Channel Website
Provides videos showing teachers using effective instructional strategies across English/language arts, fine arts, math, science, and social studies classrooms (PK-12)
Get Resource Rosenshine (2012) article, “Principles of Effective Instruction: Research-Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know”
Article describing 10 principles of research-based features of effective instruction that all teachers should be implementing.
Get Resource Evaluation of Guided Reading vs. Explicit Interventions
Research study that found an explicit intervention in phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, and comprehension demonstrated stronger impacts on student reading than did a Guided Reading intervention.
Get Resource Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths
Neuromyths - myths about the brain - are often used to justify ineffective instructional strategies and teaching. Kelly Macdonald, Laura Germine, Alida Anderson, Joanna Christodoulou and Lauren M. McGrath's findings from this research "suggest that training in education and neuroscience can help reduce but does not eliminate belief in neuromyths." "The two most commonly endorsed neuromyths across all groups were related to learning styles and dyslexia"
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