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Learning Styles: Neuromyth Debunked
Web page with background information and references to help educators learn about the lack of science behind learning styles. Provides links to 10 research articles and other resources.
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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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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.
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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 Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths
Neuromyths - myths about the brain - are often used to justify ineffective instructional strategies and teaching. Kelly Macdonald, Laura Germine, Alida Anderson, Joanna Christodoulou and Lauren M. McGrath's findings from this research "suggest that training in education and neuroscience can help reduce but does not eliminate belief in neuromyths." "The two most commonly endorsed neuromyths across all groups were related to learning styles and dyslexia"
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