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Understand and use
balanced instruction!
• Read-Aloud • Shared
Reading • Guided Process Reading • Silent, Sustained Reading • Modeled Writing 
• Guided Process Writing

Accurately group students to enhance reading skills!
• Developmental
• Heterogeneous • Flexible
• Whole • Collaborative


Utilize thematic instruction
to connect content areas!
• List of Themes • Inquiry Questions • Theme Organizers 
• Thematic Cross-Curricular Lesson Plan

 
Accelerating Literacy®

An Effective Core Literacy Model 
for Preschool Through Middle School

 Improve students’ critical thinking through effective 
questioning!
 • Critical Thinking Taxonomy 
• Visual Maps of Thinking 
• Sample Questions 
• Coaching Observation Forms
 Accelerating Literacy (AL) brings the strategies and theories behind balanced instruction together into a manageable and easily understood presentation. AL provides techniques for reading, writing, listening, and speaking instruction across the curriculum. The AL approach de-emphasizes  “pieces” and focuses more on putting the learning puzzle together. It addresses the more complex issues of identifying, coordinating, and assessing the important components in an instructional day. It is the best model available for creating a balanced instructional program. AL emphasizes balance in three areas:
   • curriculum (math, social studies, literature, science, etc.)
   • literacy (read-aloud, shared reading, guided process reading,  
     silent sustained reading, modeled writing, and guided
     process writing
   • processing (using semantics, syntax, and graphophonics or
     whole-brain processing to construct meaning in the areas of 
     reading, writing, listening, and speaking)
   AL presents the necessary components of balanced instruction and is especially helpful in demonstrating how district grade-level text, literature, trade books, and the basal readers are put together to form a cohesive instructional program.		 Organize your classroom and curriculum to support both teacher and student!
• Teacher Implementation Guides • Daily Schedule Samples • Site Implementation Plans • Lesson Plans to Maximize Small Group Instruction

Master assessment techniques!
• Reading and Writing Portfolios • Print Awareness Assessment • Oral Reading Records • Retell and Writing Rubrics • Reading, Writing, Listening, and  Speaking 
Developmental Stage Analyses • Guides for Language Arts Skills: Preschool–Middle School• Spelling • Pertinent Graphophonic Teaching Information
Use materials appropriately at every grade level!
• List of Appropriately Staged Materials • List of Literature for Below–Grade Level Students • Cross-Curricular Material Planning Guides
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