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Establishing an Intensive Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students (Revised)
Professional development guide that provides in-depth background knowledge about adolescent literacy, specifically related to struggling readers and writers.
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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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Fluency: Calculating Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Directions for computing a student’s words correct per minute (wcpm) score after doing an oral reading fluency (ORF) check.
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Fluency: Text Reading Levels
Defines independent, instructional, and frustrational levels. Also describes how to calcluate a student's reading accuracy percentage.
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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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Comprehension: Thinking Aloud to Teach Self-Monitoring (Example)
Provides an example of a teacher thinking aloud to model comprehension-monitoring during reading.
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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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