Reading Rockets
The webpage provides literacy tips and activities for parents in multiple languages to enhance children’s reading skills at home. It includes links to several resources that aim to support parents engage with their children in diverse linguistic environments.
Florida Center for Reading Research
A webpage to understand and use scientifically based reading instruction, including use data from assessments, and incorporate response to intervention, the features of effective instruction, and evidence-based practices to teach the critical components of reading.
Reading Rockets
This video shares ways parents can support their children to view bi/multilingualism as a strength. Some of the advice they share include: speak to them in their home language, share stories and songs in their home language, listen to your child read out loud and talk about their meanings.
Center on Technology and Disability
Resources aimed to support English learners (ELs) with individualized instruction that cover general instructional practices, MTSS, special education considerations, implementation strategies, and support for family involvement.
Center on Technology and Disability
Supports for English learners (ELs) with disabilities, particularly in virtual or hybrid learning. As schools transition back to in-person instruction, these materials aim to support learning recovery and enhance support systems for ELs with disabilities.
Reading Rockets
A video discusses effective reading comprehension strategies for teaching English language learner students by two English langauge teaching experts.
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
Teachers, administrators, and specialists should read this brief to learn strategies and techniques for providing biliteracy instruction, especially to English learners in grades K‐3.
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
Read this brief to learn principles for providing professional development on improving literacy in a mulit‐tiererd framework, especially to English learners in grades K‐3.
Doing What Works
Dr. Linan‐Thompson describes the components of effective interventions and how English learners can benefit from additional teaching.
Achieve the Core
This guidance document provides research‐based strategies and classroom activities to support academic vocabulary instruction.
Reading Rockets
This tip sheet shares real children's struggles with reading and provides tips for supporting them.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Watch a bilingual video that highlights the importance of enriching the everyday experiences of children through reading, communication, and play music from birth.
The Center on Instruction
This publication explores issues and makes recommendations related to meeting the needs of English learners with limited language proficiency or learning disabilities, or both.
The Iris Center
Learn about the research‐based strategies to improve reading skills in this IRIS Module on RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction.
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
Download handouts and view a series of videos on teaching academic content and literacy to English learners in elementary and middle School. The videos will help educators expand their knowledge base to help English learners acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically.
Institute of Education Sciences
This guide describes how to teach academic content and literacy to English learners in elementary and middle school.
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
Teachers, administrators, and specialists should read this brief to learn how to provide instructional support to English learners (grades K‐3) in a multi‐tiered instructional framework.
Colorín Colorado
This article explores the current trends and implications in assessment for young English Language Learners.
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
This brief describes how to to use data-based decision-making to improve literacy for English learners in grades K-3.
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
The ninth installment of MCPER’s “10 Key” series, this document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve instruction for English language learners.