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A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents (Birth through Preschool)
Partnership for Reading
This booklet describes activities that parents can do with their children to improve reading skills at specific ages from birth through Preschool.
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8 Tips for Talking to Your Child’s Teacher About Dyslexia
Understood
Talking to your child’s teacher about dyslexia is important. Here are eight tips to help you have productive conversations.
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7 Top Tips to Support Reading at Home
Education Endowment Foundation
Shared reading is a great way to develop children’s language and communication and to boost their reading skills. These tips help support children ages 5 to 7.
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7 Top Tips to Support Key Stage 2 Children Reading at Home
Education Endowment Foundation
Shared reading is a great way to develop children’s language and communication and to boost reading skills. These tips help support children ages 7 to 11.
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7 Tips to Help Kids Understand What They Read
Understood
Use these seven tips to help improve your child’s reading comprehension.
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6 Shifts Needed for Better Family Engagement
The Search Institute
Shifts that successful schools, organizations, and coalitions are making to develop key character strengths in youth.
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5 Self-Advocacy Sentence Starters for Middle-Schoolers With Dyslexia
Understood
Learn how to build self-advocacy skills to help you get what they need. Rehearsing common situations can help you know where to start.
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5 Questions Parents and Educators Can Ask to Start Conversations About Using Terms Like Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Here are questions parents and educators can ask to clarify the terms: dyslexia, learning disabilities, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia.
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3 Questions to Ask Before Downloading Apps for Kids
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
This checklist shares three questions for families to ask before downloading apps for kids.
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2020-2021 Priority Instructional Content in ELA/Literacy and Mathematics
Student Achievement Partners
These documents were developed for the 2020-21 academic year in response to the disruption of the global pandemic of COVID-19. They provide guidance for the field about the content priorities by leveraging the structure and emphases of college- and career-ready mathematics and ELA/literacy standards.
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14 phonics rules for reading and spelling
Understood
Watch this presentation to learn some useful rules about phonics and spelling.
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10 Tips for a Better IEP Meeting
Understood
In this video, Understood explains its top 10 tips for a better IEP meeting.
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10 Key Writing Policies and Practices for All Schools With Strong Evidence of Effectiveness From High-Quality Research
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
The second installment of MCPER’s new “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 students’ writing outcomes.
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10 Key Reading Practices for All Middle and High Schools
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
This handbook describes ten reading practices for middle and high schools with strong evidence of effectiveness from high-quality research, including selected grade level descriptions of what students should know and be able to do.
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10 Key Reading Practices for All Elementary Schools
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve elementary students’ reading outcomes. Also included are descriptions of what students should know and be able to do at the elementary grade levels.
Topic: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Writing
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10 Key Policies and Practices for Teaching English Language Learners
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.
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10 Key Policies and Practices for Reading Intervention
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to improve reading intervention. Also included is a list of research evidence supporting the recommendations.
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10 Key Policies and Practices for In-School Tutoring
The Meadows Center for Improving Educational Risk
This document distills the latest research findings into 10 easy-to-follow recommendations that states, school districts, and schools can use to implement in-school tutoring.
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10 Defusing Phrases to Use at IEP Meetings
Understood
Here are 10 stay-calm phrases you can use to redirect conversation and defuse tense situations.
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“What’s this About?” Reading for Meaning with Your Child
Reading Rockets
Read these tips for helping your child figure out when to ask for help with reading.