Her extensive experience also includes coordinating interventions for struggling readers, implementing blended learning, and training thousands of teachers
on effective literacy instruction.
Part of an educational experience is exposure to books and literature and instruction in reading and writing, but many students with disabilities do not
receive effective literacy instruction.
Advanced Literacy learning consultants, Bebe Morrissey and Emily Levine, spent 3 days at PICCS helping teachers develop curriculum and assess student achievement to
support effective literacy instruction.
In her article published in 2000, Arlette Ingram Willis says, «
Effective literacy instruction builds upon the cultural and linguistic backgrounds, ways of making meaning, and prior knowledge that all children bring to the classroom.
CTELL uses multimedia, anchored case - based studies delivered over the Internet to effectively train preservice teachers to understand and implement principles
of effective literacy instruction.
Her research interests include connections between teachers» collaboration, instructional approaches, and efficacy beliefs, and
effective literacy instruction for learners who struggle.
She is co-editor of the Handbook of
Effective Literacy Instruction: Research - based Practice K to 8 and Literacy Research Methodologies.
Oral reading is an important element to
effective literacy instruction, but it should be used to identify evidence in the text, to share a favorite passage or sentence, or to locate a particular fact or event.
Such is the case with moving from formative assessment to data analysis to
effective literacy instruction.
Research from many traditions has explored the features of
effective literacy instruction (see reviews by Au, 1998; Snow et al., 1998).
Flippo (2001) suggests the following elements of
effective literacy instruction:
Begin a leadership group dialogue by asking, «What are
effective literacy instruction and student learning, and what do they look like in our schools?»
Effective literacy instruction is complex, and its conditions are variable.
Understand and identify the look - fors that provide evidence of
effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.
In our project, we have targeted three bases that are foundational for
effective literacy instruction: