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Comprehension: Summarizing Text
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to write a summary.
Get Resource Vocabulary Strategy for Secondary Students: Semantic Feature Analysis
Description of a strategy for teaching vocabulary through word relationships.
Get Resource Vocabulary Strategy for Secondary Students: Teaching Word Parts
Description of a strategy for teaching vocabulary by analyzing prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
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Phonological Awareness: Research-Based Practices
Online professional development module that provides research-based methods for developing students’ phonological awareness from prekindergarten through the early elementary grades.
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Using Research to Design Content-area Instruction: A Lesson Framework for Building Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension
Online professional development module that discusses using research findings in designing content-area lessons. The module focuses on the importance of vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension in everyday instruction.
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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: Do Children Learn to Read Naturally?
Online professional development module addressing the question: “I think learning to read is like learning to speak. It’s developed through a process that all children naturally go through. Isn’t this correct?”
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"Guessing: Why the Reading Wars Won't End" (Letter printed in the Washington Post)
Letter signed by 41 reading researchers, scientists, and academics who support effective, scientificially-based reading instruction. Provides insights into the lack of teacher preparation in early reading instruction. Also discusses the lack of research behind teaching students to guess at words when reading.
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Whole-Language High Jinks: How to Tell When “Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction” Isn’t
In this resource, Louisa Moats discusses some popular practices in reading instruction that are not supported by evidence. She also addresses what effective reading instruction include.
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