Literacy Communication Tool by Lauren Lebon

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Video of each sound and the mouth formation

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This is a great video that shows the sounds and how your mouth moves, it is great for all ages.

Assessment to assess ELL students.

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This is the website for WIDA, the test to assess English Language Learners. Everything you need to know is on the website.

PDF to the WIDA Framework.

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Use the table of contents to find your grade level to look at the Proficiency Level Descriptors.

Tile Test

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This assessment helps to measure understanding of phoneme awareness, letter-sound correspondences, decoding and spelling of words, sight-word reading, and the application of decoding and spelling in sentences.

What is phonemic awareness?

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This website defines what phonemic awareness is.

What is Phonics and decoding?

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This website defines what phonics and decoding are.

Wiley Blevins Phonemic Awareness Assessment

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This assessment measures the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds.

What is Oral Language?

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This blog post will help you understand the components of oral language.

DAPPA (Diagnostic Assessment of Phonological and Phonemic Awareness)

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This diagnostic test helps you understand what parts of phonological awareness your student has mastered and what they still need to work on.

What is Alphabetic Principle?

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This video helps you to summarize what alphabetic principle is so you can better understand what it is and how it applies to your teaching.

Second Language Learners' Vocabulary and Oral Language Development Brochure

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This brochure summaries how to accommodate for your ELL students in vocabulary and oral language development.

Khan Academy Kids

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App to download. The program engages kids in core subjects like early literacy, reading, writing, language, and math, while encouraging creativity and building social-emotional skills.

Phonemic Awareness Placement Assessment

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This assessment is a great in-depth indicator for 2nd grade and above to determine what your student(s) knows.

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ReadingBear.org

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ReadingBear.org is a free website for young learners. It teaches phonics and vocabulary. It is self paced. It is systematic and processive. Helps with decoding.

Noun Project

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Website with black and white images to add visuals to assignments for students. It is great for adapting an assignment for an ELL.

Khan Academy Kids Screencast

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Watch this video to learn about how to use Khan Academy Kids.

ReadingBear.org screencast

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Watch this video to learn how to navigate the free website Readingbear.org

Children's Rights to Read Pledge

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Attached in the International Literacy Association's Children's Right to Read Pledge.

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Phonological Awareness Brochure

Spelling Test by R. Gentry

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This spelling test was created by R. Gentry, who came up with the stages of spelling. This is a quick assessment to see where your students are in the development of spelling.

Textual Lineage

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Textual lineage is when a text becomes apart of you long after you have read it. When reading has a long lasting effect, it can and will change you as a person.

Teaching Tools for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education

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This website includes briefs that discuss different topics within STEM education that revolve around equity.

Digital/Multimedia Texts: Discovery Education

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This is a link to a video on Discovery Education, that goes with the 3rd grade unit on Regions. Discovery Education is a great resources for videos, texts, and lessons for students.

Scaffolding Support for Discussions

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This is a great resource that includes sentence starters to help promote meaningful discussions in the classroom. It also includes lists of different signal words.

Read Aloud- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

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Interactive Read aloud for perspective of the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Book Talk: Picture books

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Book talk on three different picture books that are great for early elementary students.

Book Talk: Allergic (Graphic Novel)

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A graphic novel perfect for 8 to 12 year-olds, it's about a girl named Maggie that desperately wants a pet but finds out she's allergic to fur. Read to find out if she can outsmart her allergies and get the perfect pet!

Tips for Vocabulary Practice at Home

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Tips for how parents can help their child with vocabulary at home.

Teaching Vocabulary to ELLs

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How teachers can teach vocabulary to multilingual learners.

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Infographic

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This infographic goes over the steps for specific word instruction regarding vocabulary development in the classroom.

Vocabulary.com-Teaching Resource Page

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This website has a lot of different vocabulary word lists to help teachers with guiding vocabulary instruction in the classroom. Specific it helps with what words to choose, or groups of words.

Vocabulary.com Teacher Resource Information Video

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This screencast focuses specifically on vocabulary.com's teacher resource page. The page has a ton of different types of lists for teachers to use in the classroom to enhance their vocabulary instruction.

Article: The Educator’s Science of Reading Toolbox: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction to Build Equitable Access for All Learners

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This article talks about explicit vocabulary instruction in the classroom, focusing on steps of specific word instruction.

Intensifying Literacy Instruction in the Context of Tiered Interventions

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This brief talks about the benefits you get from a literacy specialist when it comes to interventions. Classroom teachers, need support to carry out effective interventions to help their students.

Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction

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This brief talks about how a teacher should have explicit and systematic phonics instruction, it goes into the different parts of phonics and the causes for instructional failure.

Framework for Intensive Intervention

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This resource goes over all parts of individualized interventions from who should be in it, to what to do when the intervention is not working. It is a great resource for a teacher to help them navigate through the intervention process.

Best Practices in Fluency Instruction

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This resource was created to summarize information about theory and best practices in fluency instruction. Read it to learn more about what fluency is and the best ways to teach it.

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This is the Effective Early Literacy Infographic I created which follows what good interventions should include.