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Instructional Decision-Making Procedures: Ensuring Appropriate Instruction for Struggling Students In Grades K-12
Booklet with multiple tools for planning and monitoring K-12 RTI implementation for English learners (ELs), reading, math, and behavior.
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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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Comprehension Strategy for During Reading: Mental Imagery (Strategy for Secondary Students)
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to visualize while reading.
Get Resource Comprehension Strategy for Secondary Students: “Right There” Questions (Strategy for Secondary Students)
Description of a strategy for teaching students to ask their own literal questions.
Get Resource Comprehension: Activating Prior Knowledge
Shows how to use an anticipation guide to activate students’ background knowledge.
Get Resource Comprehension: Get the Gist
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to identify a text’s main ideas.
Get Resource Comprehension: Making Predictions
Step-by-step directions for explicitly teaching how to make predictions based on illustrations and photographs.
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