STARI is a literacy intervention designed to support adolescent struggling readers through high-interest and engaging texts, topics, and conversation that teach essential literacy skills such as decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies.
The Head, Heart, and Conscience Strategy asks students to consider what they know, how they feel about a particular topic/event, and how others feel/are impacted by the topic/event.
The Qualitative Reading Inventory (Seventh Edition) (QRI-7) assesses students’ literacy skills through graded word lists, leveled-passages, and explicit and implicit questions following oral and silent reading.
The Lexile Framework for Listening measures students’ listening skills using audio passages and comprehension questions that assess the students’ ability to identify the main idea, supporting details, and make inferences.
The Three Levels of Questions instructional strategy can support practitioners in providing students with an opportunity to engage with a text in increasingly complex ways.
This resource includes information on how to use think-alouds as an instructional strategy, as well as a planning guide to support practitioners as they plan lessons to include think-alouds.
IXL is a comprehensive personalized learning platform that supports PK-12 math, language arts, science and social studies instruction. IXL has embedded diagnostic assessments that practitioners can use to identify students’ learning needs.
