Curated OER
Compare and Contrast: Literary Analysis
Great for a reading intervention or remedial Language Arts class, this lesson uses two stories from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III ("Terri Jackson" and "Mary Lou" to reinforce note-taking skills, story elements, and comparing and...
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Best Evidence Encyclopedia: Middle and High School Reading
Looking for opportunities to improve your readers or to help your readers get ahead? BEE presents a number of programs that have been evaluated by their researchers to bring educators the best programs on the market. Learn about programs...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension
An article highlighting the improvements of middle and high school students' reading comprehension through a sixteen-week program. Includes introduction, overview of the intervention, course structure, sample activities, assessments, and...
US Department of Education
Response to Intervention and Multi Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
An in-depth discussion of need for Response to Intervention systems to be set up within elementary schools, as well as a guide to doing so. The paper makes five recommendations for setting up an RtI system and gives practical directions...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Recommendations for Improving Adolescent Literacy
In its practice guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices, the Dept. of Education offers five recommendations for increasing the reading ability of adolescents. Those recommendations are...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study
While much has been learned about literacy in the elementary grades, less is known about programmatic approaches that help struggling adolescent readers acquire the skills they need to succeed in high school. The Enhanced Reading...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Next
Millions of today's adolescents lack the reading skills demanded by today's world. The impending crisis - millions of under-literate young people unable to succeed economically and socially - requires an immediate response. This report...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Rti and Reading: Response to Intervention in a Nutshell
RTI is not a particular method or instructional approach, rather it is a process that aims to shift educational resources toward the delivery and evaluation of instruction that works best for students. This article provides a quick...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effects of Intensive Reading Intervention of Decoding Skills
This article summarizes a study that evaluated the effectiveness of intensive instruction in the Word Identification Strategy, a learning strategy for decoding multi-syllabic words. Results indicate that intense strategy instruction...
Other
Keywords: A Memorization Strategy [Pdf]
This is a teachers' guide to teaching students how to use keywords and visualization as tools to help them remember important facts. This PDF file provides a list of materials necessary for the lesson, as well as a script and tips for...
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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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Intervention: Reading Rockets: Topics a to Z
This site provides a link to a website for teacher resources to use with Response to Intervention (RTI), a 3-tier framework schools can adopt to identify and help struggling learners-before they fail. student is progressing; and careful...