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A Guide for the Placement of Foreign-Born Students
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Requirements for Third Grade Students Who Were Retained
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2004 Guide for Calculating
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     Fluency Resources
           for Teachers

  Guided Reading
  Description of the Guided Reading process and principles, 
  and links to a more in-depth look at Guided Reading

  Shared Reading
  This website discusses the benefits of using
  shared reading as a classroom strategy

  Picture Book Read Alouds
  The benefits of reading aloud to students
  and links to other related sites and articles

  DIBELS homepage
  The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
   standardized measures of early literacy development

  Informal Reading Inventory
  A comprehensive guide to administering
  an informal reading inventory

  Vocabulary Issues
  A comprehensive website on vocabulary
  and language issues for all students

  Dictionary.com
  This comprehensive dictionary website offers tools,
  resources, games and a thesaurus

  Guided Spelling Strategy
  Making Words is a guided spelling strategy that
  can  be used in individual and group instruction

  Vocabulary Bookmark Strategy
  Strategy using a bookmark to organize learning
  and an outline for noting new vocabulary words

  Frayer Model of Vocabulary Development
  Students activate their prior knowledge and organize it
  into categories to promote vocabulary development

  Semantic Feature Analysis
  Students examine related concepts and make
  distinctions according to particular criteria

  Word Walls
  Collection of words to promote learning
  in reading and writing

  Inspiration/Kidspiration
  Software tools that teach brainstorming, organizing
  and planning.  Free trial software.

  Read It Again, and Again
  Repeated readings as a strategy for assisting
  students with hearing impairments