What Works Clearinghouse
This practice guide provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading interventions to meet the needs of their students.
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Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9
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Learning Together About Reading Comprehension Strategies
Doing What Works
Professional development providers and literacy coaches can use this tool to introduce teachers to the key concepts in reading comprehension instruction. Included in this tool is a brainstorming and planning worksheet designed to facilitate preparation for comprehension strategy instruction.
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Self-study Guide for Implementing Literacy Interventions in Grades 3-8
Institute of Education Sciences, Regional Education Laboratory Southeast
School and district leaders and reading specialists can use this guide to plan and implement reading interventions in grades 3‐8.
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Learning Together About Integrating Phonological Awareness
Doing What Works
The activities in this tool can help you plan a team meeting to review the “See How It Works” resources for phonological awareness and show teachers how to create a planning chart for integrating instruction into daily activities.
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Benchmark Assessment and Data-Sharing
Doing What Works
Faith Giddens, curriculum planner and testing coordinator, describes how secondary school staff collaborates to design interventions based on assessment results, team reviews of student work, and data‐driven success plans. View the sample material, Planning for Student Success.
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Summer Reading Camp Self-Study Guide
Institute of Education Sciences, Regional Education Laboratory Southeast
School and district leaders and reading specialists can use this guide to plan and implement summer reading camps.
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Using a Phonological Awareness Developmental Continuum
Doing What Works
The Portales preschool program uses this framework to organize information about phonological awareness skills as explained by the program's principal investigator in Phonological Awareness: A Sequential Approach.
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Foundational Skills Mini-Course: Module 5 – Early Reading
Achieve the Core
The Foundational Skills Mini‐Course dives into the content of literacy foundational skills, with an emphasis on phonological awareness, phonics, and how these connect to early reading. Instructional guidelines and concrete recommendations for teacher practice are also explored.
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Leading for Reading: An Introductory Guide for K-3 Reading Coaches (Facilitators Guide)
The Center on Instruction
This training for facilitators has combined the best information on reading development and coaching implementation for this initial professional development series for coaches. Suggestions are also made and resources listed for additional professional development sessions to encourage the continuous learning necessary to sustain quality coaching.
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Using Evaluation Data to Improve Instruction
Doing What Works
This PowerPoint presentation shows how administrators use evaluation data to identify needed changes and plan professional development. The approach is discussed in the Using Evaluation Data to Improve Teaching audio interview.
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Leading for Reading: An Introductory Guide for K-3 Reading Coaches (Participants Guide)
The Center on Instruction
This training for participants has combined the best information on reading development and coaching implementation for this initial professional development series for coaches. Suggestions are also made and resources listed for additional professional development sessions to encourage the continuous learning necessary to sustain quality coaching.
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Using Evaluation Data to Improve Teaching
Doing What Works
Listen to how a program director called on external evaluators to help staff interpret and use data to support children's learning. Follow along with Using Evaluation Data to Improve Instruction as you listen.
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Designing High Quality Professional Development: Building a Community of Reading Experts in Elementary Schools
The Center on Instruction
This document describes a systematic professional development plan for reading in elementary schools.
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Progress Monitoring Training Plan
Doing What Works
This training plan was included in a presentation on Pennsylvania's statewide progress monitoring initiative. It shows a plan for training staff on the principles of progress monitoring and a seven‐step process for implementation.
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Daily Lesson Plan for Four-Year-Olds Interactive Reading
Doing What Works
This daily lesson plan format emphasizes activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes and includes an example of interactive reading objectives.
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The Persistent Principal
Doing What Works
Watch a principal and district elementary supervisor discuss the critical role of building‐level instructional leadership. The principal describes how staff development, data meetings, and classroom walk‐throughs helped bring about instructional change. See the related sample material, Principal's Walk‐Through: Observation and Feedback Form.
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Professional Development Continuum
Doing What Works
This professional development tool shows a training continuum for RtI components starting at a beginning level and proceeding through an advanced level for administrators and staff.
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Developing a Coaching Program
Doing What Works
On‐site coaching programs are effective in helping teachers implement and sustain good practice. Watch a preschool director and literacy facilitator talk about what coaches need to know and do to be successful.
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Supporting Teachers Text Selection
Doing What Works
A principal, literacy coach, and kindergarten teacher discuss ways in which the coach trains and supports teachers reading instruction and text selection. The coach assists with lesson planning, modeling teaching strategies, and identifying appropriate resources.
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Powerful RtI Training Experiences
Doing What Works
Wendy Robinson coordinates Heartland AEA's Instructional Decision Making project. She describes training experiences that are effective for communication, allocating intervention resources, and determining instructional strategies based on data.