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Observation Tool: Scaffolded Practice
Walkthrough checklist to use when looking for elements such as providing guided practice, matching materials to student needs, and providing appropriate feedback.
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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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10 Key Reading Practices for All Elementary Schools
This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve elementary students' reading outcomes. Also included are descriptions of what students should know and be able to do at the elementary grade levels.
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10 Key Mathematics Practices for All Elementary Schools
This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve elementary students' mathematics outcomes. Also included are examples of how to enact each principle in the classroom.
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Synthesis of IES-Funded Research on Mathematics: 2002–2013
July 2016 synthesis of IES funded research identifies 28 contributions this research has made to support mathematics teaching and learning.
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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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Experts Say Reading Recovery Is Not Effective, Leaves Too Many Children Behind: An Open Letter from Reading Researchers
Read this open letter, written by more than thirty reading researchers, addressing the effectiveness of Reading Recovery.
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A Meta-Analysis of Reading Recovery in United States Schools
This meta-analysis of 36 studies on the efficacy of Reading Recovery was written by Jerome V. D'Agostino and Judith A. Murphy.
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