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- 06/24/22
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Creating Text Sets to Support Culturally Relevant Instru…
Text sets are intentionally grouped collections of texts and media resources focused on a specific topic, and are a research-based way …
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- 06/01/22
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Sample Text Analysis and Planning Guides
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- 05/26/22
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LGBTQ+ Affirming Resource Bundle: Creating Safe and Affi…
This resource bundle aims to support teachers in creating LGBTQ+ affirming classrooms by walking teachers through building their own kn…
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- 04/04/22
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Text Analysis: Additional Supports
These resources are designed to further facilitate your work with text analysis, help you make the case for why text analysis through m…
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- 03/09/22
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Integrating Mathematics and Social, Emotional, and Acade…
The resources on this page are designed to support educators developing or adapting lessons to incorporate social, emotional, and acade…
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- 08/17/21
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How We Read: A Graphic Guide to Literacy ©
What happens in our brains when we read? It turns out, a lot. Reading is a complex process that involves multiple parts of the brain wo…
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- 07/23/21
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Text Analysis Toolkit
This toolkit aims to support educators in the process of selecting and analyzing texts based on complexity and cultural relevance. Th…
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- 11/18/20
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Quarter Turns: Supports to Access Complex Text Across Di…
Quarter turns, which are small pivots teachers can make in the classroom, can be used across the content areas when a complex, grade-le…
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- 09/17/20
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Family Guides: Supporting Learning
Seek Common Ground and Student Achievement Partners have created Family Guides to help anyone helping a child to learn in the 202…
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- 08/24/20
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Foundational Skills Mini-Course
Build your understanding of reading foundational skills through this seven-part professional learning mini-course. Delve into the compo…
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- 08/11/20
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Knowledge-Building Resources for Middle and High School
A high-leverage, evidence-based strategy to support students in accessing a complex text is to anchor that text in a conceptually coher…
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- 08/06/20
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Foundational Skills Guidance Document
This guide outlines the essential instructional components to teach early reading skills. It helps teachers build their own knowledge o…
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- 08/06/20
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Foundational Skills Observation Tool
This lightweight observation tool is designed to help facilitate reflection, professional learning conversations following a classroom …
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- 08/06/20
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Effective Enhancements for Foundational Skills Instructi…
This document includes student-friendly, fun, and engaging games, songs, and activities that can be used to enhance foundational skills…
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- 08/06/20
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Decodable Reader Protocol
This protocol outlines a process for repeated reads of decodable readers, offering several opportunities to reinforce taught content (p…
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- 08/06/20
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Foundational Skills Assessment Protocol
Protocol for assessing phonics and high-frequency words. Includes an informal observations checklist to capture notes from student obse…
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- 08/06/20
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Foundational Skills Key Terms
Printable, quick-reference sheet defining the key terms related to reading foundational skills, including: print concepts, phonological…
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- 04/29/20
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Reading Practice in a Time of Remote Learning (April 202…
Looking for ways to engage students in reading practice within this time of remote learning? Thinking about equity and access to …
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- 04/08/20
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Guidance for Educators Using a Balanced Literacy Program…
Improve instruction and help all students achieve at high levels by making these research-based adjustments to your balanced literacy p…
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- 01/31/20
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“Who’s Doing the Work?” Classroom Strategies
Some instructional practice habits may unintentionally shift the cognitive lift away from students, robbing them of valuable learning o…
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- 01/31/20
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Supporting All Learners with Complex Text
If thoughtfully supported, all students can engage and learn from rich, grade-level-appropriate, complex text. This guidance document s…
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- 11/20/19
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Supporting Excellent and Equitable Foundational Skills I…
“One of the most consistent findings in all of education research is that children become better readers when they get explicit a…
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- 08/22/19
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Q&A Session with Meredith and David Liben: An Evening wi…
Literacy experts Meredith Liben and David Liben have recently written a book--Know Better, Do Better. In addition to discussing th…
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- 01/10/19
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Foundational Skills Instruction in Action (2019 January …
Meet our new Foundational Skills Observation Tool! This resource highlights best practices for high-quality, aligned foundational skill…
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- 11/07/18
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A Short Guide to Placing Text at the Center of Learning
This supplemental, quick-reference guide addresses both short and long-term strategies for improving reading skills. It is based on res…
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- 07/11/18
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The Problem of Teaching Literacy Backwards (2018 July We…
To what extent has the half-century continuance of the opportunity gap been a result of literacy instruction in the United States being…
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- 04/11/18
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Selecting and Using Academic Vocabulary in Instruction
This guidance document provides research-based strategies and classroom activities to support academic vocabulary instruction. In this …
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- 03/09/18
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Mathematical Routines
These evidence-based mathematical language routines were designed to allow English Language Learners (ELLs) to develop their language s…
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- 02/22/18
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Juicy Sentence Guidance
The guidance outlines some ideas for fostering conversations around “juicy sentences.” The juicy sentence is a strategy dev…
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- 02/22/18
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ELL Supports for Writing and Discussion
It is important for English Language Learners to be able to participate fully in grade-level writing and discussion activities. As they…
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- 01/26/16
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Aligned Instructional Practice
The purpose of the Instructional Practice suite of tools is to help teachers and those who support teachers to make the Shifts in…
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- 01/25/16
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Text-Dependent Questions
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- 01/25/16
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Text Complexity
Rather than focusing exclusively on literacy skills, college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core, set expectations f…
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- 09/14/15
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Instructional Practice Guide
Observe high-quality, standards-aligned instruction in action. The Instructional Practice Guide (IPG) is designed around Core Actions t…
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- 07/11/14
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Lesson Planning Tool
The Lesson Planning Tool (digital version only) guides teachers through a series of prompts about the lesson content, structure, and ac…
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- 09/09/13
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Focus in Mathematics
The Standards call for a greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, the Sta…
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- 05/18/21
Priorities for Equitable Instruction: 2021 & Beyond
Prioritize resources and planning time to create inclusive, affirming, and academically rigorous learning environments for all students…
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- 10/15/20
Early Reading Accelerators (K-2)
Early Reading Accelerators are essential content all readers must access to become proficient. Here you'll find information about these…
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- 06/15/22
Planning and Reflecting with Culturally Relevant Pedagog…
This resource collection aims to help support educators in understanding the reflective work necessary to effectively build culturally …