Resources

The Texts of Literacy Instruction: Obstacles to or Opportunities for Educational Equity?

November 30, 2016

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Vocabulary Matters: 5 Facts, Actions, and Resources

February 15, 2015

Five facts, actions and resources for vocabulary instruction.

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Eyes on Text Reading Log

July 14, 2014

Dr. Devon Brenner designs a reading log for teachers to record their students’ reading progress.

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Sources for Reading Assessment Rehearsals

January 31, 2014

A list of resources where educators can preview sample reading assessment tests. List-of-assessments.pdf

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Building Capacity in Low-Performing Readers

November 14, 2013

A summary of an ongoing study with Reading Plus.

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Defining Close Reading

August 14, 2013

Dr. Tim Shanahan’s definition of close reading.

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TextProject Word Pictures for Half-Chicken

February 22, 2013

A special edition of TextProject Word Pictures highlighting hard words in Half-Chicken in StoryTown anthology, Grade 3, Unit 4.

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Familiar and Concrete Word List: Animals

January 29, 2013

A list of 68 animal-related words that appears in the 4,000 Simple Word Families.

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Academic Word List

January 29, 2013

A list of 343 words that appear on both AWL list developed by Coxhead (2000) and the 4,000 Simple Word Families.

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Many Uses: The 100 Most-Frequent Words in Written English

January 22, 2013

This list illustrates the multiple uses of words in the core vocabulary, especially the most frequent 100 words in written English. What these many uses mean for reading development is explained at the TextProject Topics page for Core Vocabulary.

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