Literacy Research

The requirements of the Strong Readers Act align with the cognitive science of how students learn to read, and utilizes the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework.

General Information

Science of Reading

• Science of Reading white paper
• Science of Reading handbook
• Science of Reading: The Podcast
• Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

• Center on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support 
• IES Practice Guide: Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
• National Center on Intensive Intervention
• RtI Network

Policy and Practice Guides

• Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
• Evidence that early intervention prevents reading failure
• IES Practice Guide: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding In Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
• IES Practice Guide: Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9
• RSA Annual Growth vs. Catch Up Growth
• Scientifically-Based Reading Research

Oral Language

• Reading Rockets: Oral Language
• Fluent U

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

• Explicit Instruction for Phonological Awareness 
• Phonemic Segmentation with Dr. Louisa Moats
• Reading Rockets: Phonemic Awareness
• Tried and True Recipes for Teaching Phonological Awareness

Phonics 

Decoding/Reading

• Orthographic Mapping (Five from Five)
• Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping
• Implementing a Sound Wall
• Reading Rockets: Phonics

Encoding/Spelling

• Literacy How: Spelling
• The Relationship Between Early Spelling and Decoding 
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Fluency

• Reading Rockets: Fluency

Vocabulary

• Reading Rockets: Vocabulary

Syntax/Grammar

• Keys to Litearcy: Grammar and Syntax
• How to Teach Writing and Syntax in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade
• How Syntax Contributes to Reading Development
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Comprehension

• IES Practice Guide: Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
• The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: The Why, The What & A Little Bit of the How

Writing

Foundational Skills

• Multisensory Techniques for Teaching Handwriting
• Pencil Grip

Writing Process and Content

• IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
• Keys to Literacy: Writing
• The Writing Revolution
• The Simple View of Writing (webinar)
• Reading Rockets: Writing

Professional Organizations

• National Center on Improving Literacy
• The Reading League
• International Dyslexia Association

Instructional Resources (Print & Digital)

• Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
• University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI)

Databases for Resources

• Colorado Advisory List for Instructional Programming
• What Works Clearinghouse-Literacy

Dyslexia Resources

• Oklahoma Dyslexia Handbook
• About Dyslexia & Reading Problems
• International Dyslexia Association
• Middle Tennessee State University Dyslexia Center
• Misunderstood Minds

Assessment Information

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• National Center on Intensive Intervention

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