Close Reading: An Instructional Strategy for Conquering Complex Text

Close Reading: An Instructional Strategy for Conquering Complex Text

This captioned video shows a 3rd grade teacher guide students through the close reading process, check for understanding, and leverage the power of student talk and collaboration to help them make meaning of a complex text. Click here to watch the video.
Progress Monitoring: Mathematics

Progress Monitoring: Mathematics

This captioned training module introduces users to progress monitoring in mathematics, a type of formative assessment in which student learning is evaluated to provide useful feedback about performance to both learners and teachers (est. module completion time: 2...
Retelling: An Intervention to Promote the Literacy Achievement for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Retelling: An Intervention to Promote the Literacy Achievement for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

This captioned webinar from the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) explains why retelling is an effective intervention for building comprehension and describes how to organize a classroom or itinerant setting to effectively use the...
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...