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Resources to Support PLCs Using the IES Practice Guide Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in K-3
This page provides several resources for elementary educators needing research-based information about effective early reading instruction.
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Rubric for Evaluating Reading/Language Arts Instructional Materials for Grades K-5
This rubric, developed by the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, is for evaluating reading and language arts instructional and intervention materials for grades K-5.
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Tim Shanahan’s Literacy Blog
Literacy expert’s "Shanahan on Literacy" blog with research-based information and resources related to lots of reading and writing topics, including using leveled texts, teaching comprehension strategies explicitly, English learners, and many others.
Get Resource SpellTalk Online Listserv
Listserv for teachers, speech pathologists, interventionists, researchers, and other educators interested in research-based methods for teaching reading, spelling, and writing.
Get Resource 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 "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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Paper that concisely explains why teaching students to guess at words when reading is a terrible strategy. Written by an award-winning reading teacher and interventionist in Australia.
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