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Vocabulary Strategy for Secondary Students: Semantic Feature Analysis
Description of a strategy for teaching vocabulary through word relationships.
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Effective Instruction: Adaptation Categories
Describes four categories of instructional adaptations: content, activity, materials, and delivery.
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Effective Instruction, Reflection Activity: Improving My Teaching
Provides tool for teachers to reflect on and plan next steps for improving their literacy instruction. Has teachers consider multiple instructional dimensions, including the five reading components, writing, scaffolding, effective instructional features, differentiation, and progress monitoring.
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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 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.
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How to Use Vocabulary Maps to Deliver Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: A Guide for Teachers
This resource outlines a 4-step procedure for using vocabulary maps explicitly.
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