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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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Resources to Support PLCs Using the IES Practice Guide Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in K-3
This page provides several resources for elementary educators needing research-based information about effective early reading instruction.
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Reviewing a Reading Program: Professional Development Module
The Center on Instruction's Reviewing a Reading Program: Professional Development Module materials are designed to guide reviewers through the review process to determine if a reading program is research-based.
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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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