Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

This report identifies writing practices found to be effective in helping students increase their reading skills and comprehension and also provides examples of what these writing practices can look like within a classroom. Click here to read the report.
Reading/Comprehension Intervention: Guided Notes

Reading/Comprehension Intervention: Guided Notes

Guided Notes are teacher-prepared handouts that outline lectures, audiovisual presentations, or readings, but leave blank space for students to fill in key concepts, words, facts, definitions, etc. Guided Notes promote active engagement during lecture or independent...
Described and Captioned Media: Native American Heritage Month

Described and Captioned Media: Native American Heritage Month

In 1990, a federal resolution designated November as “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations have been issued every year since 1994, and we now refer to this celebration as “American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.” These captioned...
Reading Interventions for Comprehension, Text Analysis, Cause and Effect, and Text Analysis

Reading Interventions for Comprehension, Text Analysis, Cause and Effect, and Text Analysis

This document from the Florida Center for Reading Research contains six intervention activities for the literacy areas of text comprehension, text analysis and cause and effect. These would be appropriate for grades 2 or higher, and could be used as center activities...
Centers Idea: Sight Word Memory Game

Centers Idea: Sight Word Memory Game

Sight Words Memory is the standard memory card game — sometimes called Concentration — with the additional element of having the student read or sign the word on each card as they turn it over. This provides a lot of opportunities for repetition in sight reading, word...