Literacy Strategies
Teaching Ideas & Strategies — Reading and writing ideas across subjects.
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Using Small-Group Literacy Instruction to Target What Students Need
How to form flexible groups from assessment data, plan short, focused lessons and keep the rest of the class productively engaged.
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Teaching Effective Writing Strategies: From Strong Sentences to Whole Pieces
Teach writing with modeled strategies, sentence-level practice, the writing process and daily writing time, with a planning routine for any grade.
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Developing Vocabulary and Language Comprehension Across the Grades
Strategies for oral language, robust word teaching, morphology and syntax that strengthen the language side of reading, from kindergarten to high school.
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Improving Reading Fluency: Accuracy, Automaticity and Expression
Build accurate, automatic and expressive reading with modeled, repeated and partner reading routines, plus simple ways to check fluency progress.
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Teaching Systematic Phonics and Decoding: A Practical Classroom Guide
How to plan an explicit phonics scope and sequence, teach blending, use decodable text and replace guessing with sounding out, with a lesson routine.
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Developing Phonological and Phonemic Awareness in Early Readers
Practical routines for rhyming, blending, segmenting and manipulating sounds, with a progression, daily warm-ups and ways to connect sounds to letters.
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Understanding the Science of Reading: What Classroom Teachers Need to Know
What the Simple View of Reading, Scarborough's Reading Rope and the National Reading Panel say, and how to turn them into daily classroom practice.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies That Work Across Subjects: Before, During and After Reading
A practical guide to before, during and after reading routines, text structure, questioning and discussion for any subject.
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