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Screening Tools Chart
RtI Reading > States & Districts
This chart from the National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI) identifies screening tools by content area and rates each tool based on classification accuracy, generalizability,...
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RtI Readiness Self-Assessment Tool for Elementary Schools
RtI Reading > States & Districts
Download this self-assessment tool, which was designed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to help elementary schools and districts determine their next steps in implementing the state's...
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Mentor Log: Planning On-Site Training With Teachers
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
View the log that Tempe uses to help mentors work with preschool teachers to reflect on the results of classroom observations. The project director discusses this method in Training Coaches/Mentors...
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Vocabulary Teaching Planner for Books
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Consider using this planner as a resource to help teachers plan how they will highlight and explicitly teach vocabulary words they have selected from a story. Related Files: Tempe Early Reading...
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Preparing a Dialogic Reading Lesson
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Use this dialogic reading planning tool to help teachers develop questions and prompts for repeated readings of a storybook using the framework described in A Three-Level Framework for Dialogic...
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Daily Lesson Plan for Four-Year-Olds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
This daily lesson plan format emphasizes activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes and includes an example of interactive reading...
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Observation Checklists: Monitoring Development
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Observation checklists help Syracuse preschool teachers monitor children's progress in comprehension and oral language development. The comprehension skills reflect interactive strategies they use...
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Interactive Reading: A PEER Sequence Planner
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Use the worksheets to prepare an interactive reading lesson. Use the types of questions and prompts that help children engage in discussion. Multiple examples illustrate how to apply the techniques...
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Required Storybook List
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
This list includes storybooks that lend themselves to interactive reading strategies. Tempe's principal investigator explains how to select books for interactive reading in Selecting Books for...
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Using a Phonological Awareness Developmental Continuum
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
The Portales preschool program uses this framework to organize information about phonological awareness skills as explained by the program's principal investigator in Phonological Awareness: A...
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Using Evaluation Data to Improve Instruction
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
This PowerPoint presentation shows how administrators use evaluation data to identify needed changes and plan professional development. The approach is discussed in the Using Evaluation Data to...
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Personal Literacy Plan: Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Ready to Learn created this tool as a quick way to see where children are in literacy development. In Keeping Track of Student Progress With Portfolios, the literacy coach talks about how staff use...
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