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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Intensive Intervention in Reading Course: Module 7 Overview
National Center on Intensive Intervention
A workshop to provide strategies on how to adapt comprehension instruction to improve instructional modeling, provide practice opportunities, elicit frequent responses, and give effective feedback. Included slides and handbooks and worksheets with activities.
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Toolkit Part 4: Engaging All in Data Conversations
REL-Pacific
Use a toolkit that is designed to guide school staff in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. Part 4 focuses on help school staff understand what data is important to share with families and community members and how to share such data.
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Module 6: Dialogic Reading Practices
The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
This module describes effective dialogic reading practices for use with young children in early care and education settings and a decision‐making process to help integrate various sources of evidence to determine whether dialogic reading will be beneficial for enhancing the language and literacy skills of young children in a particular context.
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Engaging Families from the Start
Health & Human Services
This workshop helps early childhood staff to explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal‐Oriented Relationships with a family. Simulation 1 allows you to practice building bonds with families, beginning with an intake visit.
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Reviewing a Reading Program: Professional Development Module (Facilitators Guide)
The Center on Instruction
This professional development is intended for Regional Comprehensive Centers or states will use this professional development to train department of education and school district personnel involved in curriculum decision‐making in the complex work of selecting high quality reading programs.
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Goal Setting with Families
Health & Human Services
View a workshop for early childhood staff to explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal‐Oriented Relationships with a family. Simulation 2 explores the process of developing and implementing goals with families.
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Reviewing a Reading Program: Professional Development Module (Participants Guide)
The Center on Instruction
This professional development is intended for Regional Comprehensive Centers or states will use this professional development to train department of education and school district personnel involved in curriculum decision‐making in the complex work of selecting high quality reading programs.
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Starting with Strengths in Challenging Times
Health & Human Services
This workshop helps early childhood staff to explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal‐Oriented Relationships with a family. Simulation 3 explores using strengths‐based attitudes to partner with families during challenging times.
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Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading Rockets
Start the Reading Rockets online professional development module for phonological and phonemic awareness.
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Relationship-based Practices: Talking with Families about Developmental Concerns
Health & Human Services
View a workshop for early childhood staff to explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal‐Oriented Relationships with a family.
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Tell Me a Story! Introduction to Workshops for Families
Health & Human Services
This workshop introduces early childhood educators to the Tell Me a Story program. Tell Me a Story is a literary‐based emotional expressiveness program designed to help preschoolers, their parents, and teachers discuss difficult emotions associated with challenging situations. The workshop includes preparation instructions, step‐by-step directions to facilitate workshops, and follow‐up activities.
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Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes
Health & Human Services
This workshop helps early childhood staff to learn how meaningful family engagement contributes to children's school readiness and healthy development. Explore the research about the link between family engagement and school readiness, and find strategies and additional resources to support staff and programs in boosting their family engagement and school readiness practices.
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Tell Me a Story! Ways to Engage Families by Using Tell Me a Story in Your Classroom
Health & Human Services
This workshop is designed to help early childhood educators engage families by using the Tell Me a Story program in their classroom. The workshop includes preparation instructions, step‐by-step directions to facilitate workshops, and follow‐up activities.
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Course Enhancement Module: Evidence-based Reading Instruction K-5
Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform
Complete the activities in this module to learn evidenced‐based approaches to reading instruction and assessment.
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Tell Me a Story! Ways to Engage Families by Using Tell Me a Story in Your Center
Health & Human Services
This workshop is designed for early childhood educators to use to reflect on, plan, and implement Tell Me a Story practices to support family engagement and early literacy in an early childhood center. The workshop includes preparation instructions, step‐by-step directions to facilitate workshops, and follow‐up activities.
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RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction
The IRIS Center
This module illustrates different research‐based reading strategies that may be used with the response‐to‐intervention model to improve reading skills (est. completion time: 1.5 hours).
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Tell Me a Story! Parents and Teachers Working Together
Health & Human Services
This workshop is designed to teach early childhood educators how to model the Tell Me a Story program for families. The workshop includes preparation instructions, step‐by-step directions to facilitate workshops, and follow‐up activities.
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Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Professional Development Module (Facilitator's Guide)
The Center on Instruction
This module provides materials and support that link the available research to improved teacher practice in improving literacy skills of older students.