Reading/Language

Academy of Reading - Click here to download Word document

Annotated Independent Reading (AIR) - A reading activity for children grades 4 through 12  based on recording the main idea of a passage read and predicting plot development.   Click here to download Word document

Bridge Reading Kit - A reading program designed to teach pre-reading skills and basic reading concepts in the context of reading itself to children in kindergarten through grade 3.  Click here to download Word document

CLOZE - An instructional technique which assists children at all levels in reading for meaning and making use of contextual clues to make meaningful and grammatically correct word substitutions.  Click here to download Word document

Collaborative Strategic Reading - This approach combines reading comprehension strategy instruction and co-operative learning.  With links to reciprocal teaching, it is designed to improve students', in grades 4 through 12, reading comprehension.  Click here to download Word document

Concept-Oriented Strategy Instruction (CORI) - CORI is an instructional reading program designed to increase students' engagement in literacy.  It is most effective for students in grades 3 through 5.  It is intended to improve students' intrinsic motivation and use of cognitive strategies by integrating reading instruction with inquiry science in interesting and unique ways.  Click here to download Word document

Dialogue Journals - Dialogue journals help children of all ages develop a natural awareness of the communicative purpose of reading and writing as they participate in written "conversations" with the teacher over an extended period of time.  Click here to download Word document

Directed Reading and Thinking Activity (DRTA) -A reading activity that helps children at all levels develop skills in reading and thinking.  It encourages risk taking via predication.  Click here to download Word document

Dissect - A problem solving strategy that was developed to assist adolescents in the identification of difficult words in content area materials (e.g., science and social studies).  Click here to download Word document

Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Click here to download Word document

Embossed Fernald Technique - An instructional technique developed to helps children in grade 2 and beyond improve spelling through the use of seeing, hearing, and feeling words simultaneously.  Click here to download Word document

Glass Analysis - Reading program designed to teach children in grades 1 through 12, as well as  adult literacy classes, a process of decoding by combining a whole word approach with intensive visual and auditory training.  Once the child has gained decoding skills, he or she begins to be taught word meanings and comprehension.  Click here to download Word document

Great Leaps Reading Program - The Great Leaps Reading Program is a supplemental reading program for children in grades 5 thorough 9 designed to enhance reading fluency.  Click here to download Word document

Guided Reading - Guided reading is a teaching method, for children in grades 1 through 6, designed to teach children reading strategies that they can eventually use to become independent readers.  Click here to download Word document

High Interest/Low Vocabulary - These materials have been designed to make the world of the written word more readily available to poor non-readers in grades 3 through 12 and adult literacy classes.  They are a series of books designed to attract the potential reader by virtue of their interesting content.  At the same time they are designed to be easily readable.  Click here to download Word document

Interactive Dialogues - Click here to download Word document

Jolly Phonics - This program was designed to teach children in grades kindergarten through 2 how to read, write, and spell using a systematic multisensory phonics approach.  Click here to download Word document

Kerrigan's Integrated Method - This method is used to develop the grade 7 through university  student's ability to produce well written themes.  The emphases are on theme and topic sentences, paragraph formation, and the use of transitional phrases in the second and third sentences to link them to preceding paragraphs.   Click here to download Word document

Kurzweil 3000 - A text-to-speech (TTS) software program that allows text to be scanned onto the computer and then converted into speech, providing students with the tools they need to improve their reading speed and comprehension, and features that allow them to learn and study independently.  Click here to download Word document

K - W - L (Know - Want - Learn ) - This strategy is used to help children of all ages develop reading comprehension by helping students create a connection between their prior knowledge and what they read, hear, or view.  Click here to download Word document

Language Experience Approach - This approach was designed to increase the grades 1 through 12 student's oral language skills and to build an understanding of the need for and process involved in written language language (reading and writing). Click here to download Word document

Multipass - This technique was developed to improve the grade 7 through 12 student's ability to get information from a text.  Click here to download Word document

Neurological Impress Method - This technique was developed to improve reading fluency in children in grades 2 through 12 by providing an oral model of the passage at the same time that the student is attempting to read it.  Click here to download Word document

Orton Gillingham Approach - This technique was developed to improve spelling in children in grades 2 through 12 through the association of seeing how words look, hearing how they sound, and feeling how words are produced.  Click here to download Word document

Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) – Click here to download Word document

Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) - PALS is an instructional strategy developed to enhance literacy development and beliefs about reading in students in grades 2 through 6 (extensions available for Kindergarten, grade 1, and high school). Click here to download Word document

Phonological and Strategy Training (PHAST) - PHAST integrates direct instruction of phonological skills and dialogue-based metacognitive training to foster skills in reading, spelling, comprehension, and literacy skills for children in the early elementary years and children with reading disabilities.  Click here to download Word document

RAVE-O - A reading intervention program for children in Grade 2 and 3 designed to aid the development of fluency and automaticity in severely impaired readers.  Click here to download Word document

Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder (REAP) - REAP develops independent reading skills in children in grades 4 through 12 by encouraging the reader to put the main idea of the passage into his/her own words, both orally and in written form. It can be employed as a study technique, thereby assisting long term memory.  Click here to download Word document

Reading Mastery - Click here to download Word document

Reading, Thinking, Content Instruction (RCTI) - RTCI was developed by Dorsey Hammond to utilize grades 4 through 12 students' prior knowledge to identify and set purposes for content reading.  It also utilizes a problem solving approach to reading for information. Click here to download Word document

Reciprocal Teaching - This technique was designed to improve reading comprehension in students in grades 4 through 12 through the modelling of effective strategies. Click here to download Word document

Repeated Reading - This technique was developed for students in grades 1 through 12 to improve reading fluency in terms of speed and accuracy.  Click here to download Word document

ReQuest - ReQuest was developed by Tony Manzo (1969) to develop reading comprehension and set purposes for reading for students in grades 3 through 12.  It gives praxes in posing questions and engages the students' background knowledge as it relates to information in the text.  Click here to download Word document

Semantic Webbing - Semantic Webbing helps students at all levels organize information and relationships in a visual display.  It assists in comprehension and concept attainment and in setting of purpose for reading through prediction.  Click here to download Word Document

Success For All (SFA) - SFA is an elementary school restructuring program designed to deliver intensive academic assistance to students at risk for reading failure.  Click here to download Word document

Survey, Question, Read, (w)Rite, Review (SQ3R) - SQ3R is a five step methods devised by Robinson (1961) to assist students in grade 7 and up in reading a chapter or article for comprehension or study purposes.  Click here to download Word document

TextHELP Read & Write Version 7 - Click here to download Word document  

Writing to Read 2000 (WTR 2000) - WTR 2000 is a computer-based instructional system designed to introduce children in grades kindergarten through 4 to reading and writing.  Click here to download Word document

WYNN2 - A text-to-speech software tool designed for students with reading and writing difficulties which functions as a word processing and studying tool that allows students the opportunity to transform the written word into spoken language.  Click here to download Word document