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Vocabulary Instruction: Planning & Selecting Vocabulary Words to Preteach Before Reading
Guidelines for selecting and explicitly teaching vocabulary words. Includes an instructional planning chart.
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Vocabulary & Word Study: Structural Analysis
Describes the instructional components of reading and spelling multisyllabic words and contractions. Includes an activity to help teachers think about planning this instruction.
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Phonological Awareness: Onset-Rime vs. Phonemic Awareness
Illustrates the difference between onset-rime versus phonemic awareness skills.
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Phonics & Word Study (Spanish): Word-Reading Processes
Describes how effective readers of Spanish decode, develop automaticity, analogize, and use syntax and context.
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Partner Reading: An Evidence-Based Practice – Teacher’s Guide
Partner Reading is an instructional routine that improves reading accuracy and comprehension.
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Establishing an Intensive Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students (Revised), Presentation slides (PDF of presentation)
Presentation slides to support the use of Establishing an Intensive Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students (Revised), a professional development guide that provides in-depth background knowledge about adolescent literacy, specifically related to struggling readers and writers.
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"Guessing: Why the Reading Wars Won't End" (Letter printed in the Washington Post)
Letter signed by 41 reading researchers, scientists, and academics who support effective, scientificially-based reading instruction. Provides insights into the lack of teacher preparation in early reading instruction. Also discusses the lack of research behind teaching students to guess at words when reading.
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Whole-Language High Jinks: How to Tell When “Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction” Isn’t
In this resource, Louisa Moats discusses some popular practices in reading instruction that are not supported by evidence. She also addresses what effective reading instruction include.
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