"Reading: Practices to Improve Instruction" Now Available

November 20, 2007
Austin, Texas

Contact:
Leslie Blair
Project Director
Phone: 800-476-6861, ext. 205
E-mail: lblair@sedl.org
Elementary school teachers with large classes often realize the need to organize their classrooms more effectively to address a wide range of instructional needs. Reading specialist and SEDL project director Jill Slack discusses just how easily it can be done in the latest issue of SEDL Letter. The issue’s theme is “Reading: Practices to Help Improve Instruction.” It is now available online at www.sedl.org/pubs/sedl-letter.

In addition to Slack’s article, which provides tips for grouping students for instruction and organizing the classroom environment, there is an overview on Response to Intervention written by SEDL program associate Ada Muoneke. It discusses the essential components to Response to Intervention and the challenges to implementation. Other articles include a look at teacher study groups as a way to focus on instruction, an article about literacy strategies being used in New Orleans’s Recovery School District schools, and an article about literacy strategies to use with dads and kids.

To order a print copy of SEDL Letter, contact SEDL’s publications department at 800-476-6861.

About SEDL
SEDL is a nonprofit corporation based in Austin, Texas, with another office in Metairie, Louisiana. SEDL is dedicated to solving significant education problems and improving teaching and learning through research, research-based resources, and professional development. For more information about SEDL, visit http://www.sedl.org/about/.