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Special Education Reading Project (SERP)
The SERP was initiated to link special education with the statewide reading initiative activities. SERP's purpose is to identify effective reading and writing techniques that enhance the knowledge, skills, and practices of special education teachers in implementing and evaluating the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) with students with special needs. These techniques will facilitate students with special needs access to the general education curriculum and address their literacy needs.
More information about the Special Education Reading Project (SERP) can be found on the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts Web page. As well as a link to the Special Education Reading Liaisons at Education Service Centers.
SERP Publications
Instructional Decision-Making Procedures for Ensuring
Appropriate Instruction for Struggling Students
The purpose of this booklet is to provide campus-based administrators and educators with procedures for
ensuring appropriate instruction for students struggling with reading, mathematics, and behavior, and for
students who are English language learners (ELL). The procedures in this booklet can be used by educators
to reduce referrals to special education and by school teams to identify supplemental instructional practices. Administrators and educators can also use the information gathered from implementing these procedures at the
admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) meeting to ensure that lack of appropriate instruction is not the reason for
why a student is determined to have a disability.
Download Adobe Acrobat Version of the Instructional Decision-Making Procedures Booklet
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. For further reading on any of the information presented, please consult the reference section. The content in this booklet has been influenced by current research on co-teaching and inclusion, a year long sustained conversation with four co-teaching teams, and our experience from observations in over seventy co-teaching classrooms.
Download Adobe Acrobat Version of the Co-Teaching Booklet
Professional Development Guides
The following Professional Development Guides are available for downloading:
Texas Education Agency | Division of Special Education
1701 North Congress Avenue | Austin, Texas 78701-1494
Telephone: 512.463.9414 | Fax: 512.463.9560
Last Updated: January 15, 2003 | Created: August 7, 2000
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