Comprehension
The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions.
Check out these professional learning modules from the IRIS Center focused on reading comprehension!
--CSR: A Reading Comprehension Strategy
--PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades K–1
--PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2–6
--PALS: A Reading Strategy for High School
--Secondary Reading Instruction (Part 1): Teaching Vocabulary and Comprehension in the Content Areas
--Secondary Reading Instruction P(art 2): Deepening Middle School Content-Area Learning with Vocabulary and Comprehension Strategies Module
The Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform's mission is to support students with disabilities in achieving college- and career-ready standards by building the capacity of state personnel preparation systems to prepare teachers and leaders to implement evidence-based practices within multi-tiered systems of support.
Check out these documents from the CEEDAR Center on effective literacy instruction for students with disabilities!
--Literacy Instruction for Students With Multiple and Severe Disabilities Who Use Augmentative/Alternative Communication
--Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for Grades K-5
--Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for Adolescents Grades 6-12
Intervention Central provides free resources and tools to help students access the common core standards.
Literacy related academic Interventions can be found for phonics, fluency, sight words, comprehension, and writing.
Check out some of these effective comprehension strategies from Intervention Central!
--"Click or Clunk?": A Student Comprehension Self-Check
--Advanced Story Map
--Ask-Read-Tell: Comprehension with a Cognitive Strategy
--Keywords: A Memorization Strategy
--Main-Idea Maps
--Mental Imagery: Improving Text Recall
--Oral Recitation Lesson
--Prior Knowledge: Activating the “Known”
--Question-Generation
--Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Skills: A Classroom Toolkit
--Reciprocal Teaching: A Reading Comprehension Package
--Repeated Reading and Oral/Written Retell
--Text Lookback
Articles Worth Reading
*Closing in on Close Reading by Nancy Boyles via ASCD
*Thinking Strategies for learners A guide to PEBC’s professional development in reading, writing, mathematics, and information literacy from The Public Education & Business Coalition
*Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Improving Secondary Students’ Reading Comprehension Skills By Christine D. Bremer, Sharon Vaughn, Ann T. Clapper, and Ae-Hwa Kim from the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
*Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction from the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) and Division for Research (DR) of the Council for Exceptional Children
*Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills by Vicky Zygouris-Coe from NAESP
*The Keys to Remembering What You Read by Ann Dolin from LDonline
*What Are Cohesive Devices and How Do They Affect Comprehension? by Joan Sedita from Keys to Literacy
*Why We Need to Teach Sentence Comprehension from Shanahan on Literacy