School Needs Assessment
A needs assessment supports schools to systematically examine system strengths and weaknesses. This allows leaders to understand key needs and prioritize actionable steps to improve outcomes for all students.
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Reading Road Trip – Book Guides
With each week’s episode of Reading Road Trip, host Kate Winn recommends a picture book created by an Indigenous author or illustrator. Catch up with the books recommended from Seasons 1 – 3, and consider adding some to your library today!
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REWARDS Training Videos
REWARDS is a research-validated, specialized reading intervention program designed for students in junior, intermediate and senior grades. There are three YouTube videos for different versions of the program: REWARDS Intermediate, REWARDS Secondary, and REWARDS Social Studies.
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Teaching Summary Writing to Support Comprehension
Watching this webinar from PaTTAN, you will learn why summarizing has been identified through research as highly effective for developing comprehension and writing. It defines a quality summary and how it differs from retelling or paraphrasing. Practical suggestions for explicitly teaching summary writing based on text and non-text sources will be shared, including scaffolds. The…
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Teacher’s Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
Sentence combining is an evidence-based practice that helps students improve both their writing skills and reading comprehension. In this valuable book, the author outlines the importance of the sentence and what sentence combining actually is, as well as how to teach and assess it. Also included: multiple examples at different levels that teachers from Grades…
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Text Complexity: Stretching Readers with Texts and Tasks – Second Edition
When it comes to choosing texts for the classroom, educators have a lot of questions. Should we be looking at levels, lexiles or other readability criteria? Do we limit kids to “just-right” books? How can we scaffold instruction to help struggling readers access age- and grade-appropriate material? This book has answers! The authors cover quantitative…
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Using Research and Reason in Education
This paper delves into informing how teachers can use scientifically based research to make curricular instructional decisions The article showcases how as professionals, teachers can become more effective and powerful by developing their skills to recognize scientifically based practice. Even in scenarios when the evidence is not available, educators will be informed on how to…
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Coaching for Systems and Teacher Change
This book is “a comprehensive guide to what effective coaching looks like across the pre-K to 12 grade span and how to conduct powerful coaching cycles with teachers and teams”. It is research-driven, full of citations to support the coaching model (using alliance strategies, observing, modeling, providing performance feedback) and recommended practices. The section on…
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Planning Effective Writing Assessments
This blog post by Joan Sedita of Keys to Literacy highlights the research behind creating specific product goals in writing, emphasizing that providing students with specific guidance on the task, audience, and purpose. A WAG template (Writing Assignment Guide) is provided, as well as completed samples to highlight how it can be used in instruction.
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Repeated Reading Demonstration
See how repeated reading, an evidence-based approach to building fluency, can be implemented in the classroom with this brief video from the Institute of Education Sciences.
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Morphological Awareness: One Piece of the Literacy Pie
Morphological awareness is a skill that helps students read and spell. Teaching English morphemes, and building students’ awareness of morphemes in oral and written language, is key to supporting vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and writing.
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Repeated Reading Implementation Guide
Repeated reading is an instructional routine with plenty of research support. Learn more about how to use repeated reading in your classroom to build students’ fluency with this implementation guide from Dr. Stephanie Stollar.
