Oral Language & Vocabulary Video

This video highlights the connection between vocabulary and oral language development and explains how both support strong reading comprehension.

Comprehension Webinars

This webinar examines the major elements of language comprehension, offering guidance to help educators recognize where students may need more targeted instruction and to expand their own knowledge of specific language skills.

Comprehension Instructional Framework

This instructional framework supports comprehension planning by outlining goals, key vocabulary and language supports, and strategies for structuring before-, during-, and after-reading instruction.

Comprehension Video

This video offers a concise overview of an instructional topic related to literacy development and practice.

Instructional Protocols: Phonics Sample Lessons

Sample lessons follow an explicit, systematic, and sequential approach that begins with phonemic awareness, introduces sound-spelling patterns, and moves to decoding and applying skills in decodable text.

Phonics Decoding Webinar

This video provides an overview of the decoding side of phonics instruction, explaining how learning to read and write an alphabetic language like English requires teaching the relationships between speech sounds and the letters or graphemes that represent them.

VALUE Phonics Video

This video explains the VALUE framework for phonics instruction, highlighting how systematic phonics supports reading development and provides practical examples of phonics strategies in classroom practice.

Instructional Protocols: Fluency Sample Lessons

This resource provides fluency instructional protocols, including choral reading, echo reading, fluent phrasing, phoneme–grapheme mapping, and repeated reading, to support educators in building students’ fluent, expressive reading skills.

Fluency Webinar

This webinar explains the critical role fluency plays in skilled reading and offers ready-to-use instructional activities to support fluency development in the classroom.

Fluency Video

In this video, you’ll learn how the National Reading Panel recognized reading fluency as a core skill for comprehension and why fluency matters for building strong, proficient readers.

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