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5 Essential Titles For Your Structured Literacy Bookshelf

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6 Brookes Authors Offer Tips on Keeping Parents Engaged This Fall (Whether School Buildings Open or Not)

We don’t know yet what school will look like after summer break, but Brookes authors Paula Kluth, Jen Alexander, Loui Lord Nelson, Nicole Eredics, Elizabeth Potts, and Jennifer Mahdavi have shared some great parent engagement tips you can use no matter what learning plan is adopted in your district this fall.

5 Language & Literacy Tools You Might Not Know About (But Should!)

Did you know there’s a reliable assessment tool for determining whether a young bilingual child’s language difficulties are due to a delay or limited exposure to English? We’ll introduce you to BESA™ (Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment™) and four other essential screening and assessment tools in this month’s feature article.

Keep students with disabilities from dropping out of school

Why do students drop out of school, and what can educators do to keep them engaged?

How to use the DATA Model to help preschool students with autism thrive

Learn how to use The DATA Model to combine two essential elements of effective learning for young children with ASD—frequent interaction with typically developing peers and intensive individualized intervention—into one integrated school-based approach.

How to fit interventions for struggling readers into your day

How do you fit supplemental support for struggling readers into your day? This is a dilemma faced by many busy classroom teachers.

See what the authors of the new edition of Interventions for Reading Success suggest. Here are their answers to some of teachers' most common questions about managing intervention activities for their struggling readers.

Making inclusion work: 5 strategies every teacher should know

Today's classrooms have changed significantly since many educators received their formal training. As inclusive classrooms become the norm, many teachers are hungry for insights that will help them ensure students with various abilities make strides individually while their classes progress as a whole.

Here are five fresh approaches you can apply to create successful inclusive classrooms.

Strong Kids: An easy way to integrate social and emotional learning into your curriculum

The Fundamentals of Academic Vocabulary Essential Concepts for Middle School Students and Their Teachers

In this article from IDA's Perspectives on Language and Literacy, Jennifer Wells Greene, Ph.D., author of Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students, describes the vocabulary needs of middle school students, with a focus on academic vocabulary.

Bullying and the Silence of Others

Adapted from Recognize, Respond, Report: Preventing and Addressing Bullying of Students with Special Needs, this article is a call to action for school professionals to be more active in protecting students susceptible to bullying.