Lessons and Materials

• Teaching and Learning Resources (2002 Standards)
  Users of this site will find sample lessons, assessment items, content background information, and other materials designed to promote standards-based teaching and learning.

• Oregon K-12 Literacy Framework
  The purpose of the Oregon K -12 Literacy Framework is to ensure that all Oregon children are readers by the end of grade 3, and that they progress at grade-level or above in content area reading throughout their school career.
• Suites of Standards-based Writing Lessons
  The Standards-based Writing Lesson Suites, available for 5 through 8th grades and high school (9/10), were written to illustrate Oregon’s grade-level writing standards.
• Glossary of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Terms
  The glossary contains definitions for a variety of terms used across program areas.
• Adopted Instructional Materials
  Instructional materials on this page are reviewed using specific criteria and formally adopted by the State Board of Education.
• Lexiles in Oregon
  Oregon students receive Lexile measures automatically when they take the State Reading/Literature Assessment. The Lexile Framework for Reading® measures student reading ability and text on the same scale--enabling educators to match student reading ability with text difficulty.
• Lexile Maps for Educators and Families
  The Oregon Lexile Map provides a graphic representation of texts and titles matched to levels of reading ability.
• Glossary of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Terms
  The glossary contains definitions for a variety of terms used across program areas.

• Acceleration for Delayed Readers   01/20/2005 (125.50 KB)
  Programs and strategies to accelerate reading acquisition for K-3, 4-12, and Adult Basic Learners.
• Glossary of Literary Terms   09/29/2006 (24.71 KB)
• Oregon School Library Information System - OSLIS    
  OSLIS provides admittance to the EBSCO online periodical database through which thousands of non-fiction articles (all with lexiles assigned) can be accessed. Elementary and secondary research skills tutorials are also available. All Oregon schools, both public and private, can use the OSLIS resources at no charge.
• Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle & High Schools    
  Writing Next discusses eleven specific teaching strategies that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of US 4th-12th grade students, important because writing skill is a predictor of academic success and a basic requirement for participation in civic life and the global economy--Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
• Read-Write-Think    
  Read-Write-Think provides educators and students access to high quality strategies and resources in English Language Arts--Sponsored by the nternational Reading Association (IRA) and the International Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Progress Monitoring

• DIBELS Home Page    
  The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.
• easyCBM    
  easyCBM provides educators access to a standardized research-based assessment and progress monitoring system of literacy skills for K-5. This system is free to the educational community.
• The Lexile Framework as an Approach for Reading Measurement & Success   12/06/2007 (579.72 KB)
  Because The Lexile Framework® for Reading provides a common, developmental scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty--Lexiles enable educators to monitor reading growth across the curriculum. Oregon students receive Lexile measures automatically when they take the State Reading/Literature Assessment.

Research into Practice

• K-3

• Oregon's Response to Intervention Initiative (Or-RTI)    
  RTI is the practice of providing high-quality instruction and intervention matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about change in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions (NASDSE, 2005).
• Center on Instruction    
  Center On Instruction is a gateway to a new, updated collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning - RMC Research Corporation, 2007
• Big Ideas in Beginning Reading    
  Self-paced professional development modules for K-3 educators - Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement, University of Oregon.
• Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read    
  Findings and conclusions from the 2000 report of the National Reading Panel - developed by the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) and funded by the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), 2002.

• Anita Archer Trainings on Vocabulary & Comprehension: Reading Comprehension in K-3
• Before Passage Reading Practices   10/10/2007 (338.50 KB)
• During Reading Practices   09/11/2007 (263.50 KB)
• After Passage Reading Practices   09/11/2007 (239 KB)
• Scaffolding Reading in the Primary Grades   10/19/2007 (58.50 KB)

• 4-12

• Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle & High Schools    
  Writing Next discusses eleven specific teaching strategies that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of US 4th-12th grade students, important because writing skill is a predictor of academic success and a basic requirement for participation in civic life and the global economy - Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
• Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement   12/06/2007 (2.31 MB)
  Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement, makes the case that reading and writing instruction must be included in all academic areas if literacy is to improve to levels that will ensure the nation’s middle and high school students are prepared for success in college, work, and citizenship - Alliance for Excellent Education, June 2007
• Reading Next: A Vision for Action & Research in Middle & High School Literacy   12/06/2007 (1.97 MB)
  Reading Next: A Vision for Action & Research in Middle & High School Literacy identifies 15 critical elements of effective adolescent literacy programs. (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2004)
• Doing What Works    
  Doing What Works (DWW) is dedicated to helping educators identify and make use of effective teaching practices - U.S. Department of Education
• Center on Instruction    
  Center On Instruction is a gateway to a new, updated collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning - RMC Research Corporation, 2007
• The Knowledge Loom    
  The Knowledge Loom is a place for educators to review research that identifies promising practices related to various themes, view stories about the practices in real schools/districts, learn to replicate the success of these practices, add knowledge to the collections, and discover supporting organizations and resources, including annotated Web links.





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• Karin Moscon     (503) 947-5706
  Secondary/Post Secondary Transitions - Education Program Specialist, CTE Civil Rights