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Differentiated Instruction: Key to Student Success
Online professional development module that describes effective instructional features, including modeling, scaffolding, multiple student responses, and immediate feedback.
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Comprehension: Scaffolding for Struggling Readers
Provides a list of scaffolds to support students' comprehension. Includes using small-group instruction, modeling, and providing effective feedback.
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Handouts: Intervention Instruction
Provides information and tools related to the instructional tiers, five reading components, effective instructional features, and interventions. Includes instructional planning templates, example intervention plans, and data analysis tools.
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Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics
Booklet that demonstrates methods for intensifying instruction, including scaffolding cognitive processes, being more explicit and systematic, increasing learning time, and reducing group size.
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Designing and Delivering Intensive Interventions: A Teacher’s Toolkit
Booklet that demonstrates methods for intensifying instruction, including reducing group size, increasing learning time, scaffolding cognitive processes, and being more explicit and systematic.
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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.
Get Resource Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths
Neuromyths - myths about the brain - are often used to justify ineffective instructional strategies and teaching. Kelly Macdonald, Laura Germine, Alida Anderson, Joanna Christodoulou and Lauren M. McGrath's findings from this research "suggest that training in education and neuroscience can help reduce but does not eliminate belief in neuromyths." "The two most commonly endorsed neuromyths across all groups were related to learning styles and dyslexia"
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