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Comprehension: Instructional Strategies & Materials
Provides many instructional strategies, materials, and lesson ideas for teaching vocabulary and comprehension. Includes materials in Spanish.
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Phonological Awareness (Kindergarten)
Provides instructional strategies, lessons, and materials for teaching phonological awareness, including rhyming, syllable level, onset-rime level, and phoneme level activities. Includes word lists, sound charts, book lists, informal assessments, and Spanish-language materials.
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Phonics & Spelling (Kindergarten)
Provides instructional strategies, lessons, and materials for teaching phonics and spelling, including letter, sound, decoding, and word wall activities. Includes letter cards, word wall games, informal assessments, dictation activities, and Spanish-language materials.
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Fluency (Fourth Grade)
Provides many instructional and assessment tools for improving and monitoring students' reading fluency. Includes progress-monitoring charts, guidelines for examining fluency data, instructional strategies and materials (e.g., for partner reading), and Spanish-language materials.
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Building Background Knowledge
Lesson to improve reading comprehension by previewing text. Includes a prediction log. Taken from Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers: The Administrator's Role in Supporting Research-Based Practices.
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Check the Main Idea
Lesson to improve reading comprehension by determining the main idea of a passage. Taken from Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers: The Administrator's Role in Supporting Research-Based Practices.
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Chunking
Lesson to improve rate and accuracy while reading phrases. Also includes example of how to adapt the lesson. Taken from Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers: The Administrator's Role in Supporting Research-Based Practices.
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Closed Syllable Namesakes
Lesson teaching how to use knowledge of the closed syllable pattern to read multisyllabic words. Taken from Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers: The Administrator's Role in Supporting Research-Based Practices.
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