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• Text Comprehension Instruction
  This online article contains sections about scientifically-based research, metacognition, examples of question-answer relationships (text explicit, text implicit, and scriptal), and teaching students to use comprehension strategies.
• Vocabulary instruction
  This document contains definitions, how children learn vocabulary directly and indirectly, and types of vocabulary. A section on what does scientifically-based research tells us about vocabulary instruction is included.
• The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly
  This lesson plan contains engaging visuals to assist students in remembering the sequence of events in this lively lesson.
• Picture Match
  This interactive activity gives students practice with both initial consonant letters and sounds and short vowel letters and sounds. For use with individuals or small groups, this activity features a print out of pictures and letters at its conclusion.
• The Importance of Automaticity and Fluency for Efficient Reading Comprehension
  This online article is reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association quarterly newsletter, Perspectives. Its sections include definitions of key terms, ideas about relationships among fluency and other key elements of reading, and several figures.
• Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening: Instructional Resources: Activities
  This site includes teacher resources such as activities, helpful web links, and a parent corner. Phonological Awareness activities are provided for beginning sounds, blending, rhyming, and sound-to-letter segmentation for Pre-K through Grade 3.
• Internet Resources to Assist Teachers with Struggling Readers
  This website provides an overview of web-based resources for teachers of struggling readers.
• Elements of Effective SDAIE Instruction
  This matrix from a university course presents various scaffolds (modeling, bridging, contextualization, schema building, and metacognitive development) for use with English language learners in the classroom. Also included in this SDAIE (Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English) model is a description of how each scaffold supports building of student understanding and examples of appropriate tasks for each scaffold.
• Thematic Hawaiian Islands
  This website contains an overview and descriptions of five lesson plans used in second grade: (1) The Hawaiian Islands; (2) Map Skills; (3) Learning about fish that live in the ocean off Hawaii; (4) Rewrite a Hawaiian folk tale; and (5) Compare homes in Olivehurst to Punia�s home in Hawaii. A performance based unit assessment is included.
• CREDE: Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
  This CREDE website includes articles from a national research and development center. Included are research principles, publications, and five standards for educational pedagogy.
• Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners: A Position Paper
  In addition to this on-line position paper, links at the bottom of the document connect to definitions of literacy, L2 teaching methods, and a literacy framework. This website is useful for both classroom and university instructors.
• The Read In!
  THE READ IN! is an online interaction between children's authors and illustrators, and K-12 students.