Topic: Early Literacy

This video is a companion piece to the IES guide, “Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades.” You can access the guide through the text under the video....

If you have read “Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through Third-Grade,” then you will appreciate this companion piece to help pre-service and new teachers with foundational reading. It includes 38 videos on foundational reading skills....

This guide from the REL Southeast is designed to support the design and implementation of summer reading camp programs for third-grade students who scored low on the state reading assessment. It provides guiding questions designed to improve instruction and...

This guide developed by The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity provides talking points on identifying dyslexia, helping students, and raising awareness about addressing dyslexia....

The Alabama Coaching Framework turns superintendent, Dr. Eric Mackey’s vision to provide innovative support to teachers into a reality. The framework sets the standard for how coaches in any content area conduct their work in Alabama. This evidence-based framework...

In this article, Louise Spear-Swerling discusses the key features of structured literacy (SL) beginning with explicit and systematic instruction. The article explains why SL is an effective way to teach children with dyslexia and students who struggle with learning...

This infographic from the National Center on Improving Literacy provides a visual with explanations to illustrate how teachers can teach the alphabetic principle by connecting sounds, using background knowledge of letter sounds, and providing decodable texts for students to...

Developed by the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, this facilitator’s guide accompanies the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guide–Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade–for use in professional learning communities (PLCs). The facilitator’s guide...

This Progress Monitoring: Reading professional learning module builds educator knowledge in how to generate useful feedback for gauging independent student reading development over time within the elementary classroom. Provided by the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University, the module entails...

For use in professional learning communities (PLCs), this Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest facilitator’s guide supports the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guide titled Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School. The facilitator’s...