Instructional Resources

American Library Association
ALA provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information.

Children of the Code
A comprehensive resource with extensive online video offerings. Interviews with over 120 leaders in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, orthography, instructional design, child, adult, and family literacy, teaching, government policy, and many other fields.

Department of Education: Reading First Support
Focused on meeting the needs of existing Reading First grantees and sub-grantees, as well as other schools and LEAs wishing to implement reading instruction that is grounded in scientifically based reading research. Topics include: Sustaining Reading First, Instructional Leadership, and Professional Development & Technical Assistance.

Florida Center for Reading Research
Extensive information on early reading and intervention and prevention: research documents, videos, and resources for teachers, coaches, administrators and parents; research and presentations from national experts, including Dr. Joe Torgesen.

Florida Center Instructional Routines
Routines for use during small-group instruction. Choose the routines you will use with each small group based on individual student need. Routines require a variety of common classroom materials, and the specific items needed are listed at the beginning of each routine.

FluentReader
A Web site from the University of Washington devoted to Reading Fluency. Extensive resources, including a CBM reading fluency growth calculator and graphing program.

Hasbrouck-Tindal Table of Oral Reading Fluency Norms
Shows the oral reading fluency rates of students in grades 1 through 8, as determined by data collected by Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal. Teachers can use this table to draw conclusions and make decisions about the oral reading fluency of their students.

How Words Cast Their Spell: Spelling Is an Integral Part of Learning the Language, Not a Matter of Memorization
From American Educator (Winter 2008-2009), authored by R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker, and Louisa C. Moats. Spelling is a linguistic task that requires knowledge of sounds and letter patterns.

Institute for Education Sciences Practice Guide (PDF)
A one-page overview of the guide, Improving Reading Comprehension In Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.

LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling)
A professional development program that responds to the need for high-quality literacy educators at all levels. Developed by Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D, LETRS provides the deep foundational knowledge necessary to understand how students learn to read, write, and spell—and why some of them struggle.

National Reading Technical Assistance Center - A Collection of Online Resources About Scientifically Based K-3 Reading Instruction

National Reading Technical Assistance Center - Dissemination - A Collection of Online Resources About Scientifically Based K-3 Reading Instruction

Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
A comprehensive list of links to resources, implementation research, Northwest state education agencies' RTI links, and other RTI sites of interest.

Office of the Education Ombudsman
The Office of the Education Ombudsman (OEO) helps solve conflict and disputes between Washington families and elementary and secondary public schools.

Preventing Early Reading Failure
A paper by Joseph K. Torgeson published in American Educator. Focuses on preventing early reading failure for at-risk students.

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
Online book published by the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and the National Research Council. Examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading.

Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain 'Highways'
NPR Story: Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child's brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron.

Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction.

Response to Intervention - OSPI
Resources and tools for practitioners and families to support successful RTI implementation.

Sonoma County Office of Education-Reading/Language Arts
An extensive compendium of Reading and Literacy resources, including Anita Archer videos, compiled by Dr. Kevin Feldman, Director of Reading & Early Intervention, Sonoma County Office of Education.

Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do (PDF)
A paper by Louisa Moats prepared for the American Federal of Teachers. Focuses on how teachers can prevent reading failure.

The Center On Instruction
Materials and resources on reading that help educators improve reading outcomes for students in grades K-12, prevent reading difficulties from developing in the early grades as a solution to the problem of struggling readers in middle and high school, and meet instructional challenges of diversity in students’ ability and readiness for learning to read.

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
A set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. Designed to be short, one-minute fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. DIBELS measures, by design, are indicators of each of the Basic Early Literacy Skills.

The Partnership for Reading
Information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults: research, principles about reading instruction, and products for parents, teachers, administrators, and policy-makers.

U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences
A source of scientific evidence for what works in education, including early reading. User-friendly practice guides, including RTI (PDF) and ELL (PDF), for educators that address instructional challenges with research-based recommendations for schools and classrooms.

Whole-Language High Jinks: How to Tell When "Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction" Isn't (PDF)
A practitioners’ guide by renowned reading expert Louisa Moats that explains how educators, parents, and concerned citizens can spot ineffective reading programs that surreptitiously hide under the “scientifically-based” banner.