The goal of this Academy is to enhance your knowledge of effective instructional practices that promote early reading success. Find out how to meet a range of abilities among kindergarteners by scaffolding, adjusting instruction, and grouping based on frequent assessment of children’s early reading skills.

The goal of this Academy is to enhance teacher's knowledge of instructional practices that promote early reading success. This Academy will focus on effective instruction for all students and particularly those who have difficulty learning to read.

The overarching goal of this Academy is to provide teachers with the knowledge and expertise to address the wide range of abilities among second graders. Each major topic will address the importance of determining on a regular basis, how students are progressing. Teachers will discover ways to plan instruction to ensure all of the children in their classroom understand what they read.

The goal of the Texas Reading Initiative is to ensure that all students read on grade level or higher by the end of third grade. When you finish this Academy, you will have many more tools for helping students strengthen their reading skills and for accelerating the progress of struggling readers.

The Elementary Institute examines the important components of beginning reading instruction and instructional adaptations that can be made to to ensure that teachers who work with struggling readers, including students with disabilities, are knowledgeable about basic early reading literacy instruction and instructional adaptations, so they can meet the needs of all learners.

This Institute is intended for middle and high school educators who are teaching struggling readers. Struggling readers are those students who are reading significantly below grade level. The purpose of this Institute is to provide literacy content as well as instructional adaptations, so that all struggling students can access the curriculum.

As fourth grade teachers, your role is to help your students shift from learning how to read to using reading to learn. Because students are expected to read and understand increasingly difficult content area materials, all teachers play a role in helping their students become independent readers and writers. When you complete this Academy, you will have a repertoire of instructional strategies that can help you provide differentiated instruction that targets the individual needs of the students in your classroom.