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Understanding Differentiated Instruction
Video of reading expert, Sharon Vaughn, discussing how differentiation benefits all students – both struggling and higher-achieving.
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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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Effective Instruction: Grouping for Instruction
Guidelines for using various grouping formats, including whole group, teacher-led small groups, partners, and cooperative groups. Includes suggestions for managing groups and a reflection activity for teachers.
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Effective Instruction, Reflection Activity: Grouping Formats
Activity for teachers to reflect on and plan their use of different grouping formats for instructional purposes.
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Teachers’ Experiences: Planning Centers
Video that shows teachers discussing how they plan and manage centers, or workstations, in their classrooms.
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Planning Meaningful Literacy Centers
Video showing one teacher effectively setting up and managing centers and teacher-led small groups.
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