This resource contains original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on Writing professional development and specific instructional practices for incorporating formal types of writing in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

This resource examines the elements of personal narratives and how to use mentor texts to introduce and teach them to your students.

This resource presents instructional practices for writing summaries of expository text in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.

This resource explores instructional practices for incorporating expository essay writing into English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction.

This resource explores instructional practices for persuasive essay writing in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.

This resource explores strategies for teaching students how to revise and edit content area writing.

This resource includes information to help teachers use rubrics for both evaluation and instruction in their classrooms.

This resource features video demonstrations of a teacher using sample student essays to model how to teach revision of literary essays and expository essays.

This resource contains original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on Writing (TALA Writing) professional development.

This resource shows teachers modeling how to read aloud literary and informational texts and use think-alouds.

This resource features content-specific strategies for using reading and writing to support learning in all content areas, with a focus on English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

There are two sections in this module: an overview of schoolwide intervention and a three-tier approach to intervention.

An overview of effective instruction and adaptation framework, fostering student engagement and grouping, explicit instruction and scaffolding, effective instruction, and a summary.

This section includes information about selecting vocabulary words for explicit instruction.

This section includes information about teaching  pronunciation and definition routines for multi-syllabic words.

This module contains five sections: an overview, objectives for Module 3, Frayer Model examples, the Frayer Model in practice, and scaffolding with the Frayer Model.

This resource includes information about comprehension instructional routines and how to build background knowledge with anticipation-reaction guides.

This resource includes information about instructional routines to teach main idea identification.

This resource includes information about a summarization instructional routine.

This resource describes how to administer the Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment (TMSFA) and word reading subtest.