Curated OER
Reading Skills: Chunking
Prepare advanced English learners and low-level readers for the reading demands of post-secondary education with skill of chunking. Readers learn to make meaning from phrases rather than individual words, helping them to read more...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: History/social Studies: Adapting and Modifying Sources
This interactive demonstrates how a piece of primary source text can be adapted or modified for readers at different levels of proficiency in order to ensure their understanding.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Struggling Readers
This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Struggling Readers
This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
In this article, the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) technique is explained, along with research to support the use. The technique teaches students to use comprehension strategies, while working cooperatively, as they engage in the...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Grouping Students Who Struggle With Reading
There are a variety of grouping formats that have been proven effective for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities: whole class, small group, pairs, and one-on-one. This article summarizes the research and implications...
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...
Other
National Research Center on Rural Ed. Support: Targeted Reading Intervention
An overview of targeted reading intervention strategies and professional development activities to assist struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Top 10 Things to Know About Reading
What are the top ten things you should know about reading?
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Vowel Consonant E Syllables
This resource has two sections: Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of R Controlled Syllables
This resource has two sections: R-Controlled Syllables and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Consonant Blends
This resource has two sections: Overview of Consonant Blends and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Consonant Digraphs
This resource has two sections: Overview of Consonant Digraphs and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript. This section is intended as a teacher...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of the Ed Suffix With Unchanging Base Words
This resource has three sections: Overview of the -ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Affixes With Unchanging Base Words
This resource has three sections: Overview of Affixes with Unchanging Base Words, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Compound Words
This resource has two sections: Overview of Contractions, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Contractions
This resource has three sections: Overview of Contractions, video demonstration and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Open Syllables
This resource has two sections: Overview of Open Syllables and video demonstration. It provides links to Reading Rocket: Six Syllable Types and four PDF files.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Combinations
This resource has two sections: Overview of Letter Combinations and two video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, video transcripts, and teaching tips.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy
There are five components of reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers: Word identification/decoding, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, and Engagement/motivation. These components are discussed and a video of middle school...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Suffixes That Change Base Words' Final Y to I
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resource has two sections: Adding Suffixes that Change Base Words' Final y to i, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to Cvc and Silent E Base Words
This resource has two sections: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent e Base Words, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.