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Effective Instruction: Elementary 90-Minute Reading Block Template
Chart with elementary reading time divided by grouping formats: whole group, small groups, intervention groups.
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Sound-Spelling Chart
Instructional resource to support students' phonemic awareness, decoding, and spelling. Provides the most common spelling patterns for English sounds on a chart that students can use during instruction and practice. Also lists tips for how teachers can use the chart.
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Sample Literacy Blocks, K-5
Examples of how to break up the literacy block across the reading components, writing, and small groups with centers for grades K-5.
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Phonics (Spanish): Syllables Into Words Activity/Center
Activity and materials for building words with syllables in Spanish.
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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: How Should We Teach Students to Read Unknown Words?
Online professional development module addressing the questions: “Should I teach students to use semantics and syntax to read words they don’t know? Should I teach students to guess a word based on pictures, context, and/or the first letter of the word?” And, "When a student struggles with the alphabetic principle, should I have him practice reading in decodable texts, or leveled/predictable texts or both?"
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Using Research to Inform Literacy Instruction: What Do We Know About “Balanced” Literacy?
Online professional development module addressing the question: “What Do We Know About “Balanced” Literacy?”
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Reading Support for Spanish-Speaking Students in Elementary Classrooms
Online professional development module that describes differences and similarities between Spanish and English and their implications for reading instruction.
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Comprehension Strategy for During Reading: Mental Imagery (Strategy for Secondary Students)
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to visualize while reading.
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