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61.  LD Talk Transcript: Reading and RTI: How Students Benefit from Multi-Tiered Instruction and Intervention [K-12]

In this transcript of an April 2007 question-and-answer session sponsored by the National Center on Learning Disabilities, Drs. Sharon Vaughn and Jeanne Wanzek answer questions about features of evidence-based reading instruction, the delivery of effective supplemental services, the importance of collecting, and using data to inform instruction. They also offer information about the implementation of RTI. The transcript is available at http://www.ncldtalks.org/content/interview/detail/1204/ .

Relevancy: 23.52% Published: 12/17/2007 12:10 PM

62.  Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success [4-12]

This report from Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy describes the research base and data on how to help students "read to learn." It also includes a discussion of best practices and describes how the practices and recommendations in the document are currently being implemented in schools and districts across the U.S. and, if implemented widely, hold promise for helping students become more skilled readers as they enter college and careers. This report is available at http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Main.pdf.

Relevancy: 22.90% Published: 11/2/2009 11:13 AM

63.  Learning Port [K-12]

This free online library provides local educators with easy access to over 700 professional development resources that can be customized to meet their needs. Such groups as AFT, NEA, federally funded TA centers, the IRIS Center, COI, and various states, have contributed resources to bring together research, policy and practice. The site can be searched by keyword or by an alphabetical list of resources, topics, or organizations providing the resource. It also has "featured resources", an opportunity to add a resource, and a signup to receive email updates. The database can be accessed here.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 7/26/2010 1:17 PM

64.  Bringing Literacy Strategies into Content Instruction [4-12]

This document, developed by the Center on Instruction, provides research-based guidance on academic literacy instruction in the content areas, specifically focusing on the effective use of text in content areas. It reviews the research evidence about content-area literacy instruction for adolescents and suggests ways teachers can use content-area texts to enable students to understand the vocabulary and concepts they contain. This document also provides a brief synopsis of working with adult learners and the most promising professional development practices identified in research. Intended for use by literacy specialists and other technical assistance providers in their work with states to improve educational policy and practice in adolescent literacy, it describes ways to assist states, districts, and schools in helping teachers develop the kinds of pedagogical skills needed to implement instructional practices that have been shown to improve student literacy outcomes. The Center on Instruction held a webinar July 22,2010, to provide an introduction to this document. The archived WebEx file and PowerPoint presentation can be accessed here.

Bringing Literacy Strategies into Content Instruction (896.63 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 6/7/2010 3:44 PM

65.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Effective Leaders and Teachers [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan, COI's resources can help you identify reforms that work and how to implement them. As you advance reforms in "effective leaders and teachers", consider that COI's resources cover the research on high-quality instruction and interventions; using data to inform instruction; high-quality coaching and professional development for your teachers; and how to improve teacher and principal effectiveness.

Effective Leaders and Teachers (140.49 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 1/21/2010 3:01 PM

66.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Standards and Assessments [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan, COI's resources can guide you in your decision-making about what reforms work and how to implement them most effectively in the area of "standards and assessments". COI's resources can help you implement high-quality assessments and use information from assessments to guide classroom instruction.

Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Standards and Assessments (108.29 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 1/21/2010 2:48 PM

67.  Universal Screening for Reading Problems: Why and How Should We Do This? [K-12]

This resource, developed by Joseph R. Jenkins and Evelyn Johnson for the RTI Action Network, provides an in-depth introduction to early screening. It discusses why universal screening is important, explains how it fits into an RTI framework, and recommends steps for creating a reading screen as an identification of early predictors of later reading outcomes. To learn more, click here to go to the RTI Action Network website.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 7/22/2009 4:30 PM

68.  Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders - Grades 4-12 [4-12]

This guide from the Center on Instruction, designed to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively, can be used at the late elementary school level, in content-area classes in middle and high school, and with intervention groups or classes. It provides a scaffold to build principals' understanding of scientifically based reading instruction, as a means for a principal to gather information about the quality of literacy and reading intervention instruction in a school, and as a data collection guide for planning targeted professional development and resource allocation. It includes examples of what a principal might expect to see in a classroom as well as templates that states, districts, and schools may use or adapt. The Center on Instruction held a webinar August 10, 2009, as an orientation to this guide and to explain how an adolescent literacy principal walk-through process can be used to support state and district literacy plans. The archived WebEx file and PowerPoint presentation can be accessed here.

Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders (307.38 KB) CBI: Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals (27.55 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 5/26/2009 3:41 PM

69.  Module Series: Using CBM in a Response to Intervention Framework [K-12]

This series of modules from the National Center on Response to Intervention provides information about how student progress monitoring, specifically Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM), can be used to determine a student's response to an intervention. The six modules include an introduction to CBM, using CBM in reading, math, written expression and spelling, other ways to use CBM data, and using CBM to determine RTI. These modules are designed for conducting professional development, course offerings, or individual study. Each module includes a PowerPoint presentation with notes, a manual, and handouts. While they are intended to be used as a series, each module can stand on its own. To access the CBM Modules, visit http://www.rti4success.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1172&Itemid=150.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 5/7/2009 10:37 AM

70.  Selecting a Scientifically Based Core Curriculum for Tier 1 [K-12]

This article from the RTI Action Network discusses the RTI component of scientifically based instructions for all students--Tier 1. It also provides information on selecting a Tier 1 core program in reading, and addresses the issue of selecting core programs in other subjects of writing, mathematics, science, and social studies. It is available for download here.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 4/22/2009 12:50 PM

71.  PowerPoint Presentation Module for Facilitators [K-3]

Due to its large size, the PowerPoint presentation module for facilitators is divided into two sections that correspond to slides 1-60 and 61-126.  The files are large and each file may take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes to download. PowerPoint Presentation Module for Facilitators Slides 1-60 PowerPoint Presentation Module for Facilitators Slides 61-126

» Principal's Reading Walk-Through: Kindergarten-Grade 3 -- Professional Development Module Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 2/5/2009 11:17 AM

72.  Adolescent Literacy Resources: An Annotated Bibliography - Second Edition 2009 [K-12]

This annotated bibliography from the Center on Instruction, updated from a 2007 edition, is intended as a resource for technical assistance providers as they work with states on adolescent literacy. This revision includes current research and documents of practical use in guiding improvements in grades 4-12 reading instruction in the content areas and in interventions for struggling readers. It is organized into four categories aligned with information provided in adolescent literacy guidance documents previously developed by the Center on Instruction: Policy and Leadership, Assessment for Instruction, Academic Literacy in the Content Areas, and Interventions for Struggling Readers.

Adolescent Literacy Resources: An Annotated Bibliography - Second Edition 2009 (388.22 KB) CBI: Adolescent Literacy Resources Annotated Bibliography 2nd Edition (25.26 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 2/2/2009 4:11 PM

73.  Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction [4-12]

This guide, a companion volume to two other publications from the Center on Instruction, Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents and Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools: A Guide for Principals, provides information about the key elements of a comprehensive assessment plan to improve literacy instruction for adolescents and provides examples of assessments and assessment systems currently in use or under development to improve literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12.

Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction (449.3 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 1/5/2009 1:25 PM

74.  West Virginia RTI: An Implementation and Technical Assistance Guide for Districts and Schools [K-3]

This guide developed by the West Virginia Department of Education Office of Special Education provides descriptions of the fundamental knowledge, skills, procedures and practices operationalized by schools in a 2005-2006 pilot program to study the benefits, challenges, costs and system changes inherent in implementing an RTI model. The document serves as an administrator's and practitioner's guide for implementing and sustaining a K-3 RTI model.

WV RTI: An Implementation and Technical Assistance Guide for Districts and Schools (728 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 9/17/2008 9:13 AM

75.  Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices [4-12]

This practice guide from the What Works Clearinghouse offers five evidence-based recommendations for educators to use to improve literacy levels among adolescents in upper elementary, middle, and high schools. It also discusses the quality and quantity of evidence that supports them. This guide will help educators implement strategies to improve literacy practices, with examples of how this implementation may occur in a school setting. To access this document, click here.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 9/9/2008 9:57 AM

76.  Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention [6-12]

This 2007 brief developed by the National High School Center describes issues related to the implementation of RTI at the high school level. It provides an overview of RTI, describes current research on RTI and secondary education, and provides an example, the Long Beach, CA school district, that implemented RTI so successfully at the high school level that they are applying it to their middle schools. The document is available for download below.

Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention (933.61 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 8/13/2008 9:55 AM

77.  Teaching Exceptional Children [K-12]

The Council for Exceptional Children's May/June 2007 issue, edited by guest editors Douglas and Lynn Fuchs, provides a cogent framework for understanding RTI as a means of preventing academic failure and identifying students as having learning disabilities. The articles in this special issue present a coherent set of developmental practices that can provide administrators and practitioners with an understanding of the benefits of using RTI and demonstrate how instruction and a tiered approach to service delivery, along with progress monitoring, can be implemented within schools and classrooms. The document is available for download below.

Teaching Exceptional Children (1.69 MB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 8/12/2008 9:01 AM

78.  Doing What Works (DWW) Website [K-5]

Doing What Works (DWW) is a website dedicated to assisting teachers in the implementation of effective educational practices. It contains practice guides developed by IES that evaluate research on the effectiveness of teaching practices described in the guides and examples of possible ways this research may be used. To access this website, visit http://dww.ed.gov/. DWW also provides tables describing the DWW tabs that address literacy and provides a quick reminder about the content to enhance presentations, professional development and general usage of the materials. The "Roadmaps" to Early Childhood Language and Literacy and Adolescent Literacy provide a quick overview and are available for download below, along with the more detailed inventories of the DWW website by topic.

ECE Literacy Roadmap (149.5 KB) Adolescent Literacy Inventory (226 KB) ECE Literacy Inventory (271 KB) Adolescent Literacy Roadmap (63.5 KB) Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 5/24/2010 3:23 PM

79.  Creating a Culture of Literacy: A Guide for Middle and High School Principals [6-12]

This 2005 report from the National Association of Secondary School Principals describes research-based practices that can be used to create a secondary school literacy instructional plan that not only targets the literacy of all students but also encourages postsecondary education and the enhancement of future employability. It also includes descriptions of schools that have implemented these practices. A hard copy of the document is $21 from the National Association of Secondary School Principals. However, it is available for free in PDF format from several internet sites, such as http://www.ecs.org/html/Document.asp?chouseid=6478.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 11/21/2007 1:32 PM

80.  Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth (Executive Summary) [K-12]

This Executive Summary provides a thorough overview of the major findings analyzed in the report by the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The panel of major scholars in second language learning and literacy analyzed existing evidence on teaching reading and writing to language minority students and identified gaps in this area of research. Professinal Development staff and educators may use the findings described in this summary to support research-based initiatives and instruction for language-minority students. The Executive Summary is available for downloading at the Center for Applied Linguistics website at http://www.cal.org/projects/archive/nlpreports/Executive_Summary.pdf.

Relevancy: 22.50% Published: 11/12/2007 5:08 PM

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