Literacy

MODULE 3: Discussion of Text: Improving Literacy Instruction in the Secondary School Setting Event Date: 8/29/2012

This is the third module in a series of three designed to provide key principles and practices that support classroom instruction. Read more...

Webinar: ELA and Math Common Core State Standards Implementation: Georgia and Indiana Share Their Efforts to Rollout CCSS Event Date: 6/26/2012

This Center on Instruction webinar on June 26, 2012, featured Pam Smith, Director of Academic Standards and Instruction with the Georgia Department of Education, and Zach Fougherty, Director of College and Career Readiness for the Indiana Department of Education, who shared their successes and challenges in rolling out the Common Core State Standards in their states. Read more...

BUILDING THE FOUNDATION - A Suggested Progression of Sub-skills to Achieve the Reading Standards: Foundational Skills in the Common Core State Standards

This document is based on an analysis that determined the sub-skills students need to achieve in each of the Foundational Skills (K–5) in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Read more...

Webinar: Why Teach Spelling? Event Date: 5/10/2012

Deborah K. Reed, author of the Center on Instruction publication Why Teach Spelling? provided the answer to this question in a May 10, 2012 webinar with a brief review of the research about the impact of spelling on reading abilities, spelling development, and approaches to spelling instruction. Read more...

Why Teach Spelling?

This resource is a compilation of three documents that support the teaching of spelling in today’s schools: a discussion of “Why Spelling Instruction Matters�, a checklist for evaluating a spelling program, and tables of Common Core State Standards that are linked to spelling instruction. Read more...

Using Instructional Routines to Differentiate Instruction: A Guide for Teachers

This publication helps educators plan differentiated instruction using 72 formatted activities called Instructional Routines, which provide a structure for teaching specific foundational reading skills. Read more...

Student Center Activities Aligned to the Common Core State Standards

This publication helps educators create differentiated reading instruction experiences for their students by showing the relationship between two distinct resources: Student Center Activities (SCAs), created by the Florida Center for Reading Research for K–5 classroom teachers as differentiated reading activities for use in small student groups, and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Read more...

Webinar: Improving Adolescent Literacy in Rural Schools: A Schoolwide Approach Event Date: 1/11/2012

Debby Houston Miller and Vicki LaRock of the Center on Instruction presented "Improving Adolescent Literacy in Rural Schools: A Schoolwide Approach" at a January 11, 2012, webinar co-sponsored with the Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center and the Alaska Comprehensive Center. Read more...

Webinar Series: Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension - Research Overview Event Date: 12/30/2011

This Research Overview module is the first in a series of four Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension webinars designed to provide key principles and practices that support classroom instruction. Read more...

Webinar Series: Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension - Teaching Comprehension Strategies Event Date: 12/30/2011

This Teaching Comprehension Strategies module is the second in a series of four Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension webinars designed to provide key principles and practices that support classroom instruction. Read more...

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