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...
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...
Tools for Teachers: Professional Development Modules

Tools for Teachers: Professional Development Modules

The Tools for Teachers professional development modules are open educational resources designed to meet the needs of teachers, schools, and districts working to make the key instructional shifts in the CCSS for ELA & Literacy a reality for teachers and students....
Vocabulary Intervention: Identify and Define Multiple-Meaning Words in Context

Vocabulary Intervention: Identify and Define Multiple-Meaning Words in Context

This vocabulary lesson plan from the National Center on Intensive Intervention can be used my teachers to assist students in determining or clarifying the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words. Click here to access the lesson plan.