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Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension: Four Professional Development Modules
This free package contains all the research-based materials you need to conduct four two-hour professional development sessions on implementing Doing What Works K-3 Reading Comprehension practices.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Building the Base Institute: Literacy
Learn literacy-specific applications of Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) practices for promoting academic language development and...
English Language and Literacy Acceleration (ELLA)
ELLA is a research-based professional development program that improves academic literacy instruction for pre-K through 8th grade students...
Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course: Curriculum
With the Reading Apprenticeship framework at its heart, this course helps students build a positive reader identity, and make concrete improvements...
By: Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia L. Greenleaf, Lynn Murphy
This significantly updated edition of Reading for Understanding shows how teachers and students can work together to boost literacy, engagement, and...
Price: $29.95 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2012
WestEd's Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf wrote a key chapter in the Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research. New in paperback, this...
Price: $50.00 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2010
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This commentary, written by Cynthia Greenleaf, codeveloper of WestEd's Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework, and Kathleen Hinchman...
Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement
This report urges higher expectations for all students in reading and writing, and new approach to improving these skills...
Research & Evaluation
Beaverton School District Arts for Learning (A4L) Lessons Evaluation
This study, conducted as part of the Beaverton School District's (OR) Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant, is assessing the impact of a supplemental...
Effects of Understanding Science Professional Development on the Achievement of Middle School Students
REL West researchers are testing the effectiveness of WestEd's Understanding Science teacher professional development program...