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ALT Contrastive Analysis Resources By Bilinguistics and The Reading League Support Multilingual Learners in Your Classroom Download the Free Resource
ALT What do clear and accessible teaching procedures look like in practice? Johnson and colleagues (2017) developed a rubric for assessing the use of explicit instruction along seven dimensions. Clear teaching procedures is one of the seven and encompasses a range of techniques. The teacher effectively reviews prior skills and/or engages background knowledge before beginning instruction.
ALT The teacher provides clear demonstrations of proficient performance. The teacher provides an adequate number of demonstrations given the nature and complexity of the skill or task.
ALT "The teacher uses language that is clear, precise, and accurate throughout the lesson. " Scaffolding is provided when it is needed to facilitate learning.
ALT "Complex skills or strategies are broken down into logical instructional units to address cognitive overload, processing demands, or working memory. " https://irrc.education.uiowa.edu/measure-first Find the six other assessment dimensions on our free eLearning module and application!
ALT 2024 Top 10 Science of Reading Books Images of the top 10 bookcovers: Science of Reading: Defining Guide, The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book: A Practice & Planning Guide for Teachers, Effective Universal Instruction: An Action-Oriented Approach to Improving Tier 1, Structured Literacy Interventions: Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6, The Reading Comprehension Blueprint, Writing Matters: Developing Sentence Skills in Students of All Ages, Climbing the Ladder of Reading & Writing: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners, Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension, Literacy Foundations for English Learners and Morpheme Magic Set at shop.thereadingleague.org
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