The target audience for this guide is a broad spectrum of school practitioners such as administrators, curriculum specialists, coaches, staff development specialists and teachers who face the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English language learners in the elementary grades.  The guide also aims to reach district-level administrators who develop practice and policy options for their schools.

Designed for elementary school educators and school- and district-level administrators, this guide offers prevention, implementation, and schoolwide strategies that can be used to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the ability of students to attend to and engage fully in instructional activities.

This is a set of guides for workshop presenters.  Guides that are available for download are (a) Effective Fluency Instruction and Progress Monitoring; (b) Establishing a Field-Based Literacy Lab; (c) Foundations of Reading: Effective Phonological Instruction and Progress Monitoring; and (d) Word Analysis: Principles for Instruction and Progress Monitoring. These guides were developed between 2000 and 2009. Also see related booklets at the top of the page. (Founded in 1996 as the Texas Center for Reading & Language Arts, the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts is a research and development initiative at the University of Texas at Austin.  The Center draws upon State, ...

The Vaughn Gross Center has developed a range of professional development materials for personnel working with students who have disabilities, including several for workshop presenters.  A variety of instructional topics are covered under (a) K-12; (b) primary grades; and (c) secondary grades.   Some are general education guides that have been adapted for special education, and these are indicated.  Nine materials are available for download. They were developed between 2000 and 2009. (Founded in 1996 as the Texas Center for Reading & Language Arts, the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts is a research and development initiative at the University of Texas ...