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Differentiated Instruction: Key to Student Success
Online professional development module that describes effective instructional features, including modeling, scaffolding, multiple student responses, and immediate feedback.
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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.
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Comprehension: Thinking Aloud to Teach Self-Monitoring (Example)
Provides an example of a teacher thinking aloud to model comprehension-monitoring during reading.
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Comprehension: Scaffolding for Struggling Readers
Provides a list of scaffolds to support students' comprehension. Includes using small-group instruction, modeling, and providing effective feedback.
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Effective Instruction: Grouping for Instruction
Guidelines for using various grouping formats, including whole group, teacher-led small groups, partners, and cooperative groups. Includes suggestions for managing groups and a reflection activity for teachers.
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Handouts: Intervention Instruction
Provides information and tools related to the instructional tiers, five reading components, effective instructional features, and interventions. Includes instructional planning templates, example intervention plans, and data analysis tools.
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RTI Leadership Summit 2009 – Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA; PDF of presentation)
2009 presentation of research findings behind assessments and interventions in the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA).
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Word Identification Strategies: HINTS and SPLIT Strategies
Video that illustrates two strategies for teaching multisyllabic word reading.
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