Research-Based Instruction

Foundational Skills Research That's Explicit and Systematic

Overview of our foundational skills research

Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Reading/Language Arts Text Complexity

Lexiles® of high-interest texts of appropriate complexity and rigor to build student knowledge and academic vocabulary

Vocabulary Knowledge Building Grades K–2

Knowledge-building strand mapped out for the passages in Grades K–2 “Working with Words” lessons

i-Ready Text Selector Tool

Find i-Ready texts for Grades K–8 aligned to the knowledge that you want students to build.

Tools for Instruction

Downloadable lesson plans, available in English and in Spanish. These lessons offer abundant opportunities for reading, writing, and speaking about texts.

English	Spanish
Make Inferences Understand Characters Evaluate Arguments	Cite Evidence Evaluate Arguments

National Center on Intensive Intervention

National Center on Intensive Intervention's evaluation of i-Ready as an Academic Screening Tool and Progress Monitoring Tool