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Observation Tool: Scaffolded Practice
Walkthrough checklist to use when looking for elements such as providing guided practice, matching materials to student needs, and providing appropriate feedback.
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Strategies and Activities for Independent Learning (SAIL) Grades K-2 Mathematics
Booklet to support planning and management of centers, or workstations, with multiple math games and activities.
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Facilitator’s Manual: Study Guides for the Kindergarten and First Grade Texas Online Teacher Reading Academies (OTRA)
Provides professional development sessions that administrators, coaches, and teachers can use to extend their knowledge and skills related to early literacy instruction, assessments, and meeting the needs of English learners.
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Facilitator’s Manual: Study Guides for the Second and Third Grade Texas Online Teacher Reading Academies (OTRA)
Provides professional development sessions that administrators, coaches, and teachers can use to extend their knowledge and skills related to early literacy instruction, assessments, and English learners.
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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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Critical Features of Effective Reading Instruction
Useful document outlining critical features of effective reading instruction. Taken from Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers: The Administrator's Role in Supporting Research-Based Practices.
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Beginning Reading Instruction: Components and Features of a Research-Based Reading Program
Booklet describing an effective elementary reading program, including 12 essential instructional components, 8 campus-level features, and 8 instructional features related to struggling readers.
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Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Booklet with vocabulary lesson ideas and strategies, including explicit instruction, concept maps, word webs, semantic feature analysis, and advanced word study.
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