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Fall Literacy Screener Now Available!
Check out our latest FREE literacy screener for grades 3-12! The Adolescent Assessment of Literacy (AAL) is an online adaptive screener developed by NCIL to be used during the fall semester. Follow the link below to learn more and access the screener.
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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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Parentese Dictionary
Center for Early Literacy Learning
A document for vocalization and listening, including the parents’ practices for parentese. The documents is esepcially for parents of infants.
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Page 8: Teach Comprehension Strategies
The Iris Center
A webpage to provide the reading comprehension teaching strategies for teachers to add them into their teaching instruction. Included the strategies for three levels: beginning; intermediate; advanced.
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Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
Reading Rockets
An article provides seven strategies to help language users to make sense of text. These seven strategies have research-based evidence for improving text comprehension.
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Guided learning at home
Step Up AT
This comprehensive webpage provides information for families to learn how to help children use Assistive Technology to develop early literacy at Home.
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Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9
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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Essentials for Reading Success
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.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts give a badic ovrview to answer basic questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy.
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Establishing an Effective Reading Program
Reading Rockets
A Video to introduce the research-based reading instruction and discuss how schools and districts can choose the best reading programs.
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Sign Song
Center for Early Literacy Learning
This PDF shows how signing is an effective way for preschoolers to communicate by improving language and fine motor skills. It explores the different ways to practice signing in various settings.
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Environmental Print
Reading Rockets
Downloadable PDF on ideas on how to use print found in your everyday environment to help develop your child’s reading skills. Also available in Spanish.
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Reading Tips for Parents in Multiple Languages
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.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts answer questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy. Specifically, answers on how to actively support phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency in children’s literacy.
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Phonics and Word Recognition Instruction in Early Reading Programs: Guidelines for Children with Reading Disabilities
Reading Rockets
An article provides guidelines for determining the accessibility of these phonics and word recognition programs used with children with reading disabilities.
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Scribble Scribble
Center for Early Literacy Learning
This PDF explains how parents can support their child’s learning as early as infancy by providing them opportunities to scribble and draw.
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The First Letter Is …
Center for Early Literacy Learning
Practitioner practice guide for preschoolers to become familiar with letter sounds. Making the connection between pictures and letter sounds is a great way to introduce preschoolers to the alphabet
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Reading Tips for Parents of Babies
Reading Rockets
The webpage offers valuable reading tips specifically for parents with babies, in order to emphasize the importance of early literacy development. It provides practical advice on creating a reading routine, selecting appropriate books, and fostering a positive reading environment to promote language and cognitive development in infants. Available for download as a PDF.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts answer questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy. Specifically, answers on how to actively support comprehension and vocabulary development in children’s literacy.
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Teacher Practices that Impact Reading Motivation
Reading Rockets
An article introduces Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) or practices to encourage engagement, educators can advance the breadth and depth of students’ reading by explicitly and systematically nourishing students’ motivations as readers.