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Resources for Parents and Educators
- Co-teaching Booklet | Coordinating for Reading Instruction: General Education and Special Education Working Together
The purpose of this booklet is to provide strategies to help general and special education teachers, speech and language pathologists, school counselors, para-professionals, and administrators (e.g., principals, special education coordinators) plan for and implement co-teaching during reading instruction in classrooms where a variety of learners are represented, including students with disabilities.Download Adobe Acrobat PDF Document: Co-Teaching Booklet
- Dyslexia and Related Disorders (February 2001)
The Dyslexia and Related Disorders document developed by the TEA Division of Curriculum and Professional Development, contains the approved Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders and provides school districts and parents with additional information regarding the state's dyslexia law and its relationship to the federal laws, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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- Professional Development Guides
The following professional development guides with special education adaptations can be found at the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts Web site under the heading "Publications":
- Teaching the Viewing and Representing the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills in the English Language Arts Classroom
- Enhancing Writing Instruction for Secondary Students
- Reading Fluency: Principles for Instruction and Progress Monitoring
- Enhancing Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension for Secondary Students - Part II
- Phonological Awareness: Principles for Instruction and Progress
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
This book examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading. [available for order at National Academy Press]
- TEA Resources and Publications
The TEA maintains a list of resources and publications, as well as "Literacy Links," for school personnel and parents on its Texas Reading Initiative Web page.