Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: How to Differentiate Instruction
This site discusses differented instruction including the definition, when to implement, and how to implement using small groups. It offers information on how to form the differentiation groups for each grade level, K-3.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Planning Instruction and Tracking Progress
This site offers PDFs of Instruction Planning Guides and Student Progress Records for reading intervention for each grade kindergarten through third grade.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Response to Intervention (Rt1)
This site offers links to Florida's State-wide Implementation Plan, The Use of Ongoing Progress Monitoring to Improve Reading Instruction (PDF), Rt1 Action Network, and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Interventions for Struggling Readers
This site offers links to an action plan a for school-wide intervention program. It includes a PDF of the principal's action plan outline, links to web casts of the intervention plan, and a video about the sounds of the English language...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Cards [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and answer questions on comprehension cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Essentials for Reading Success
This site offers three cyclical flow charts of the essentials for reading success: components of reading, types of assessment, and layers of instruction.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, Grades 4 5
In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities: Grades 2 3
In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...