Welcome to FCRR! We are dedicated to ensuring that all children are reading and succeeding in school. Teachers, instructional coaches, clinicians, principals, and other school staff are critical to achieving that vision. Here, educators can find resources to support their knowledge and practice. FCRR invites you to use the resources below to make evidence-based and evidence-informed decisions to improve reading outcomes for all learners.
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A Practitioner’s Guide to Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students by Using Evidence to Strengthen Programs and Practices
This resource was developed to help state education agencies and local education agencies implement evidence-based literacy practices in their classrooms.
Implementing Evidence-Based Literacy Practices
This roadmap was developed to help state education agencies and local education agencies implement evidence-based literacy practices in their classrooms by following the suggestions of the resources listed in the eight steps.
Adolescent Assessment of Literacy
Developed by the team at FCRR and the National Center for Improving Literacy, the Adolescent Assessment of Literacy, or AAL, has been specially developed as a screener to assess literacy skills of students from the 3rd to the 12th grade.
Essentials for Reading Success
Increase your knowledge about using assessment data to guide instruction, response to intervention, the features of effective instruction, and evidence-based practices to teach the critical components of reading.
Tools for Effective K-5 Literacy Instruction
Watch this webinar to learn more about free evidence-based resources developed by FCRR and others to support your instruction.
Student Center Activities Aligned to Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards: English Language Arts
The Student Center Activities have been aligned with Florida’s B.E.S.T Standards: English Language Arts. Use the filter tool to plan for instruction.
Florida K-12 Reading Endorsement
Developed in partnership with the Florida Department of Education, the Reading Foundations and Evidence-Based Instructional Practices Pathway includes five competencies to support educators in earning the Florida Reading Endorsement.
Student Center Activities
Over 350 activities designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. An accompanying Teacher Resource Guide offers insight on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center Activities in the classroom.
Reading Program Repository
Designed in partnership with the Florida Department of Education, this one-stop shop includes information on programs used in Florida to help educators select evidence-based programs that best meet the needs of their students.
K-3 Reading Tutors
Designed in partnership with the Florida Department of Education, the information provided can support districts and schools with implementing effective reading tutoring programs for students in grades K-3.
IES What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guides
Evidence-based recommendations that address common challenges in schools and videos of instructional examples from practice guides focused on reading and literacy.
School Leader’s Literacy Walkthrough
Designed in partnership with the Florida Department of Education, this tool can assist school leaders in supporting classroom instruction and is aligned to Florida’s B.E.S.T. English Language Arts Standards.
Science of Reading: An Introduction
Developed by the Florida Department of Education, this introductory course provides information about the science of reading, how the reading brain develops, the importance of word recognition and language comprehension, and practical ways to incorporate the principles of the science of reading into instruction.
School to Home connection
These resources are based upon research evidence and designed for teachers to use and share with families and caregivers. Explore and use these free resources to encourage literacy support for children at home.
Florida Practice Profiles
Developed by the Florida Department of Education, the Practice Profiles clearly define the best practices of core instruction, in a way that is teachable, learnable, doable, and assessable in practice. The profiles are aligned to Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards.
Reading Universe
Reading Universe offers ready-to-use teaching strategies, in-classroom videos, interviews with teachers and reading experts, and quick, concrete answers to common questions about teaching reading and writing.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets provides free resources about teaching children to read and helping kids who struggle. On this website, you’ll find a hundreds of articles on teaching reading, classroom strategies, in-classroom video, parent tips in multiple languages, video interviews with top children’s book authors, a daily news service, and more.
AdLit: All About Adolescent Literacy
AdLit is a national multimedia project that provides educators and families with resources to support readers and writers in middle school and high school.
LD OnLine: All About Learning Disabilities and ADHD
LD OnLine seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD. This resource features hundreds of helpful articles, expert interviews, videos, columns by noted experts, first-person essays, children’s writing and artwork, and a comprehensive resource guide.
ColorĂn Colorado
ColorĂn Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. ColorĂn Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade.
