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1.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Data Systems to Support Instruction [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan, COI's resources can help you identify reforms that work and how to implement them. As you advance reforms in the area of "data systems to support instruction", consider that COI's resources cover the use of data to inform instructional practices and decision making; inform professional development for teachers and administrators; and improve teacher and principal effectiveness.

Data Systems to Support Instruction (107 KB) Published: 1/21/2010 3:17 PM

2.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Turning Around Struggling Schools [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan for "turning around lowest-performing schools", COI's resources can help you understand research-based practices to provide high-quality instruction and effective intervention to reach struggling students. Our resources can also help principals understand how to plan initiatives to improve the instructional programs for students and how to serve as an instructional leader at their school.

Turning Around Struggling Schools (115.11 KB) Published: 1/21/2010 3:11 PM

3.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Effective Leaders and Teachers [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan, COI's resources can help you identify reforms that work and how to implement them. As you advance reforms in "effective leaders and teachers", consider that COI's resources cover the research on high-quality instruction and interventions; using data to inform instruction; high-quality coaching and professional development for your teachers; and how to improve teacher and principal effectiveness.

Effective Leaders and Teachers (140.49 KB) Published: 1/21/2010 3:01 PM

4.  Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Standards and Assessments [K-12]

As you apply for ARRA funds and implement your plan, COI's resources can guide you in your decision-making about what reforms work and how to implement them most effectively in the area of "standards and assessments". COI's resources can help you implement high-quality assessments and use information from assessments to guide classroom instruction.

Selected COI Resources Addressing the ARRA Reform Area: Standards and Assessments (108.29 KB) Published: 1/21/2010 2:48 PM

5.  Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy [4-12]

This guidance document from the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy discusses some of the challenges for adolescents who struggle with written texts in the academic subject areas of history, science, mathematics, and literacy. It also explores how standards, assessments, and teaching instruction can be strengthened in order to support these readers. The guidance document is available at http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Lee.pdf.

Published: 11/2/2009 2:12 PM

6.  Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumer's Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents [4-12]

This guide from the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy draws together evidence on nine of the most commonly used, commercially available reading comprehension assessments for use with adolescents. It provides a critical view into the strengths and weaknesses of each. Authors Leila Morsy, Michael Kieffer, and Catherine Snow focus on the utility of assessments for the purposes of screening groups of students to identify those who struggle and diagnosing their specific needs. The guide is available at http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Morsy.pdf.

Published: 11/2/2009 1:38 PM

7.  Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success [4-12]

This report from Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy describes the research base and data on how to help students "read to learn." It also includes a discussion of best practices and describes how the practices and recommendations in the document are currently being implemented in schools and districts across the U.S. and, if implemented widely, hold promise for helping students become more skilled readers as they enter college and careers. This report is available at http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Main.pdf.

Published: 11/2/2009 11:13 AM

8.  Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders - Grades 4-12 [4-12]

This guide from the Center on Instruction, designed to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively, can be used at the late elementary school level, in content-area classes in middle and high school, and with intervention groups or classes. It provides a scaffold to build principals' understanding of scientifically based reading instruction, as a means for a principal to gather information about the quality of literacy and reading intervention instruction in a school, and as a data collection guide for planning targeted professional development and resource allocation. It includes examples of what a principal might expect to see in a classroom as well as templates that states, districts, and schools may use or adapt. The Center on Instruction held a webinar August 10, 2009, as an orientation to this guide and to explain how an adolescent literacy principal walk-through process can be used to support state and district literacy plans. The archived WebEx file and PowerPoint presentation can be accessed here.

Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders (307.38 KB) CBI: Adolescent Literacy Walk-through for Principals (27.55 KB) Published: 5/26/2009 3:41 PM

9.  Adolescent Literacy Resources: An Annotated Bibliography - Second Edition 2009 [K-12]

This annotated bibliography from the Center on Instruction, updated from a 2007 edition, is intended as a resource for technical assistance providers as they work with states on adolescent literacy. This revision includes current research and documents of practical use in guiding improvements in grades 4-12 reading instruction in the content areas and in interventions for struggling readers. It is organized into four categories aligned with information provided in adolescent literacy guidance documents previously developed by the Center on Instruction: Policy and Leadership, Assessment for Instruction, Academic Literacy in the Content Areas, and Interventions for Struggling Readers.

Adolescent Literacy Resources: An Annotated Bibliography - Second Edition 2009 (388.22 KB) CBI: Adolescent Literacy Resources Annotated Bibliography 2nd Edition (25.26 KB) Published: 2/2/2009 4:11 PM

10.  Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction [4-12]

This guide, a companion volume to two other publications from the Center on Instruction, Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents and Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools: A Guide for Principals, provides information about the key elements of a comprehensive assessment plan to improve literacy instruction for adolescents and provides examples of assessments and assessment systems currently in use or under development to improve literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12.

Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction (449.3 KB) Published: 1/5/2009 1:25 PM

11.  Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices [4-12]

This practice guide from the What Works Clearinghouse offers five evidence-based recommendations for educators to use to improve literacy levels among adolescents in upper elementary, middle, and high schools. It also discusses the quality and quantity of evidence that supports them. This guide will help educators implement strategies to improve literacy practices, with examples of how this implementation may occur in a school setting. To access this document, click here.

Published: 9/9/2008 9:57 AM

12.  Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers - 2nd Edition [4-12]

This 2nd edition of the Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers professional development module is a revision of the 2008 version and presents information based on findings from Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice (Scammacca et al., 2007) and recommendations discussed in Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices: A Practice Guide from IES (Kamil et al., 2008). This suite of resources developed by the Center on Instruction has two purposes. First, it is designed to guide the delivery of instruction for adolescent struggling readers, particularly secondary interventions in the general education context. Second, it seeks to deepen technical assistance providers’ knowledge of reading-related issues for adolescents with reading difficulties and learning disabilities and enrich providers’ work with SEAs and LEAs. Detailing selected research-based instructional practices associated with positive effects for adolescent struggling readers, the suite comprises (a) a meta-analysis, (b) a practice brief, (c) a professional development module, and (d) training of trainers materials.  (a) Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice summarizes and synthesizes aspects of recent research on reading instruction for adolescent struggling readers to determine the relative effectiveness of interventions and outlines implications of these findings for practice. It focuses on interventions to improve students' reading vocabulary, accurate decoding of unfamiliar words in text, reading fluency and their use of reading comprehension strategies. A capacity building indicator (CBI) form is provided. (b) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Practice Brief takes the meta-analysis a step further for educators and decision-makers working in the field. It addresses the five reading components, compares successful and struggling readers’ behaviors, and describes effective school-based instructional practices. A capacity building indicator (CBI) form is provided. c) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Professional Development Module combines information from the meta-analysis and practice brief into an interactive presentation on effective, research-based instruction in secondary reading. It includes a PowerPoint presentation with speaker’s notes and a Facilitator’s Guide. NOTE: Depending on your Web browser, you may have to save the file to your computer in order to see the notes. (d) The Training of Trainers PD Module is designed to train others to facilitate presentations of the Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Professional Development Module. It contains all slides from the EIASR-PD Module, presentation guidelines, and suggestions for customizing the PD for different audiences. A handout on customizing the PD is also provided.     These resources align with Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction (Torgesen et al., 2007) also available in this section of the website.

Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice (244.93 KB) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Practice Brief (296.54 KB) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers 2nd Edition Facilitator's Guide (494.05 KB) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers 2nd Edition PPT Module (2.82 MB) Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers 2nd Edition Train-the-Trainer's PPT (507.5 KB) Customizing PD for Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers (77 KB) CBI: Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers Meta-Analysis (22.81 KB) CBI: Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Practice Brief (26.15 KB) CBI: Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers PD Module (27.85 KB) Published: 8/9/2010 2:35 PM

13.  Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Practice Brief [4-12]

A body of research-based practices is emerging to guide instruction for adolescent struggling readers. This practice brief from the Center on Instruction focuses on the five reading components adolescents need to succeed in school and beyond. Each component - word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation - discussed in terms of the available research, comparisons of successful and struggling readers' behaviors, and recommended instructional practices. The brief aligns with on two Center on Instruction publications, Reading Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice (Scammacca et al., 2007) and Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction (Torgesen et al., 2007).

Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Practice Brief (296.55 KB) CBI: Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers Practice Brief (26.15 KB) Published: 3/21/2008 7:47 AM

14.  Reading at Risk: The State Response to the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy [5-12]

The final report of a year-long study of adolescent literacy conducted by the National Association of State Boards of Education, this 2006 document outlines recommendations for policymakers based on joint problem-solving, collaborative practice, and collective accountability that engages students in purposeful reading and writing in all subjects being taught.

Reading at Risk: The State Response to the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy (564.25 KB) Published: 11/26/2007 12:15 PM

15.  From State Policy to Classroom Practice: Improving Literacy Instruction for All Students [K-12]

The National Association of State Boards of Education developed this guidance document about state policies and programs that lead to actual instructional changes in the classroom, including actions that must be taken at all levels--state, district, school, and classroom--to impact instructional practices and improve student reading skills. It is available for downloading here.

Published: 11/26/2007 11:34 AM

16.  Evidence-Based Decisionmaking: Assessing Reading across the Curriculum Interventions [4-12]

Part of the Issues & Answers series from the Fast Response Projects conducted by the regional educational laboratories on current education issues, this 67 page report describes an investigation of adolescent literacy initiatives in seven states, analysis of a sample of interventions to improve literacy outcomes and guidance for matching interventions to specific school needs. The report was developed by the Regional Education Laboratory Southeast at SERVE Center, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Evidence-Based Decisionmaking: Assessing Reading across the Curriculum Interventions (1.54 MB) Published: 7/26/2007 6:39 PM

17.  Video Conference - Overview of Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents [4-12]

In a video conference held on April 30, 2007, Dr. Joseph Torgesen of COI's Reading Strand provided an overview of the newly released "Adolescent Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction." To view the archived video, go to http://www.wfsu.org/fcrr/ and click on "Overview of Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents" in either RealTime or Windows Media. The PowerPoint used as the handout discussed in the video conference is also available.

Published: 5/11/2007 5:57 PM

18.  Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction [4-12]

This document developed by the Center on Instruction's Reading, Special Education and ELL Strands makes recommendations for improving literacy-related instruction in the content areas or across the entire school day, interventions for students reading below grade level, and recommendations for supporting literacy development in adolescent English language learners. Also included are comments from experts in response to questions about methods for improving academic literacy in adolescents and examples of state activities in support of improved adolescent literacy in California, Florida, Rhode Island, and Washington. A video of Joe Torgesen providing an overview of this document is available here.

Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction (652.67 KB) CBI: Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents (23.52 KB) Published: 3/9/2007 1:22 PM

19.  Reading to Achieve: A Governor's Guide to Adolescent Literacy [4-12]

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices - Adolescent Literacy Advisory Panel identified five strategies for governors and state leaders to establish a framework and policies to support improvement of adolescent student literacy. This 41-page document provides a description of the work of the Advisory Panel including thorough discussion of each strategy and appendices with additional resources, contacts and examples of how the strategies have been implemented. It is available for online reading or download at The National Governors Association website at http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.9123e83a1f6786440ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=8f09ab8f0caf6010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD.

Published: 8/25/2006 1:57 PM

20.  Assistance to States: Revising Certification Exams and Reading Standards [K-12]

Presented at the K-3 and Adolescent Literacy Workshop February 14-15, 2006, by Dr. Marcia Kosanovich, Florida Center for Reading Research at FSU.

Published: 1/22/2007 2:36 PM

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