How do you address the most critical needs of students who struggle with reading while engaging them with authentic and supportive practices?
The Supporting Readers Who Struggle collections focus on areas such as targeted foundational skills instruction, motivation and engagement, differentiated reading interventions, and increasing working memory and sustained attention. The resources provide practical, evidence-based strategies to help educators tailor their instruction to meet the needs of all their readers and, in the process, they challenge the notion of what it means to be a reader who struggles.
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Key findings from research, including a layered model of effective comprehension instruction and the opportunities within it for differentiation. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Nell K. Duke
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Methods for maximizing time with students through writing opportunities that support reading growth. *This video was created exclusively for the Supporting Readers Who Struggle collections.
Speaker(s): Stefanie B. Copp, Sonia Q. Cabell
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Tips for intervention and general classroom instruction, including metacognition strategies, sound and orthographic activities, and opportunities to integrate skills and construct meaning. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Mark Weakland
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How research can help guide instruction past simplistic—and problematic—solutions touted in early literacy instruction.
Speaker(s): Marjorie Y. Lipson, Jeanne R. Paratore, Victoria J. Risko
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What preschool teachers can do to play on students’ natural curiosity and help develop their decoding skills, phonological awareness, language development, and more. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Sonia Q. Cabell
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Listening comprehension, what it is, what skills and knowledge contribute to it, and what effective teaching strategies should be employed in the classroom. *This video was created exclusively for the Supporting Readers Who Struggle collections.
Speaker(s): Young-Suk Grace Kim
How knowledge building in English language arts instruction can support language and content knowledge, leading to better linguistic and reading comprehension.
Author(s): Sonia Q. Cabell, HyeJin Hwang
Methods for engaging young readers in targeted foundational skills instruction and practice that can encourage orthographic mapping and support motivation.
Author(s): Joy Dangora Erickson, Alessandra E. Ward, Jacquelynne Anne Boivin, Beth Fornauf
A look at the importance of providing reading interventions that are differentiated and aligned with an individual student's most foundational reading skill need.
Author(s): Jill S. Jones, Kristin Conradi, Steven J. Amendum
Why more intensive instruction of the foundational competencies is needed and a simple lesson approach that may help improve the reading outcomes of students who struggle.
Author(s): Timothy V. Rasinski