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Curated OER

ESL Storyboards

For Students 1st - 12th
In this ESL literacy worksheet, students examine each individual board and then use them to tell and write a story about the events.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Rti: Intervention for Adolescent Struggling Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2007 brief is a meta-analysis of thirty-one studies on interventions targeting adolescents struggling with reading. Specifically, it looks at effective interventions for struggling adolescent readers, what the specific impact of...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Repeated Readings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a instructional activity for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase learners' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intevention for Reading: Peer Tutoring in Sight Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a lesson for peer tutoring of sight words including training, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' sight word vocabulary and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Retelling

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This intervention emphasizes the importance of verbal rehearsal of a story. By retelling, students relate information from the story to their own experiences. In this way, they improve their reading comprehension and memory of story...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Cloze Passage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about cloze passages, a contextual analysis instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement cloze passages, understand how to measure progress with cloze passages, find research that supports...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Reconciled Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This intervention, which is based on Schema Theory, engages learners in enrichment activities prior to reading the passage. In this way, students have the opportunity to activate and enhance existing knowledge before reading....
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: K W L Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The K-W-L strategy stands for what I Know, what I Want to learn, and what I did Learn. By activating students' background knowledge, it improves comprehension of expository text.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Draft Multiple Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn about the importance of using multiple readings. Teachers will learn how to implement multiple readings; measure progress with multiple readings; and find research to support multiple readings.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A complete list of online resources for interventions to reading instruction.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Group Story Mapping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This intervention, which is based on Schema Theory, emphasizes linking previous knowledge structures (schemata) with reading materials. A pre-reading technique (see "My Story Map") provides a framework that directs young scholars'...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Paraphrasing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Improve understanding of expository materials by getting the main ideas through paraphrasing. The paraphrasing strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are three steps for teaching...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Text Dependent Questions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Describes a reading strategy where students must respond to text by supporting their ideas with text-based evidence. Lists different categories of questions the teacher can prepare based on the text chosen, with examples for each.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Event Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use event maps with students. They will learn how to implement event maps with literary and informational texts; measure progress with event maps; and find research to support event maps. A reproducible event...