Search Results

Differentiated Instruction (Second Grade)
Provides examples of differentiated instruction, including reading and writing centers, using teacher-led small groups, and various scaffolding techniques. Also presents scenarios across phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension for teachers to practice differentiating to meet students' needs.
Get Resource
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.
Get Resource
Resource Series for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties
The Texas Education Agency's Texas Gateway provides professional development material, Building Blocks for Teaching Adolescents with Reading Difficulties, developed as a part of the Texas Adolescent Reading Academies, or TALA.
Get Resource
"Red Book" Series
Series of five booklets on the five components of research-based reading instruction developed by the Texas Student Success Initiative.
Get Resource
Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
Web page with a booklet that presents recommendations for improving student learning: space learning over time, use both worked examples and problem-solving exercises, combine graphics with oral descriptions, connect abstract and concrete representations, and use quizzes.
Get Resource
Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction Website
Companion website to Explicit Instruction (Archer & Hughes, 2011). Provides videos of effective instruction at the elementary and secondary levels in reading, language arts, and math classes.
Get Resource
Teaching Channel Website
Provides videos showing teachers using effective instructional strategies across English/language arts, fine arts, math, science, and social studies classrooms (PK-12)
Get Resource
Rosenshine (2012) article, “Principles of Effective Instruction: Research-Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know”
Article describing 10 principles of research-based features of effective instruction that all teachers should be implementing.
Get Resource