- Cama-i, quyana tailuci!
- (Central Yup’ik)
- "Greetings, thank you for coming!"
Digital Library Resources
Resources for Educators
Alaska’s Reading Playbook is a guide for educators teaching in Alaska’s unique educational landscape. This playbook combines decades of nationwide research with examples and resources developed by educators in our state.
Coffee and Content Webinar Series
Word Ladders with Dr. Timothy Rasinski
A word ladder actively involves each learner in analyzing the structure and meaning of words and is a great classroom strategy to develop students’ decoding and vocabulary skills.
The integration of phonology, orthography, and morphology can be used to analyze student spelling inventory results. Learn how to evaluate students’ spelling, determine the types of errors students make, and engage with a tool that school teams can use to drive analysis and target instruction and intervention.
High-Frequency Words with Denise Eide
The author of the Logic of English introduces activities to strengthen sight word skills. These games equip parents and teachers to provide all sorts of multisensory and engaging practice, including high-energy active games, creative games, card games, tactile games, and more.
Comprehension with Joan Sedita
The author of Keys to Literacy introduces educators to important strategies to help students build their reading comprehension across grade levels and content areas. Learn about the “top-down topic web” strategy, which educators can implement directly into their classroom instruction the next day.
Decodable Text with Lindsay Kemeny
The author of “7 Mighty Moves” shares about a class-wide or small group reading routine for decodable texts. Learn about specific strategies and prompts to engage your students when they encounter a new word and structure for any level of decodable reader.
Websites
Professional Development Site Access
The Intensive School Reading Improvement Program Professional Development Resource Website contains resources to support educators with reading instruction. Please fill out complete information to request access to be added to the DEED Google Site.
This website provides easy access to myHeggerty's login page, multiple support sites, training videos, and resources.
This website includes 900 UFLI downloadable files, spelling test data reports, small group planning sheets, UFLI support sites, and much more.
This website is designed to give parents an overview of UFLI, provide them with support for using the homework practice pages, and share Scarborough’s Reading Rope in a parent friendly way.
Resources to Share with Families
Family Engagement Resources can be used by school districts and educators to support families in helping their child with reading at home. The resources include ready-to-print pamphlets and flyers for distribution or can be used as digital resources.
External Resources
Do you have community members who would like to learn how to provide effective and research-based reading tutoring to students? DEED recommends training tutors with the following FREE online courses:
- Saga Coach This online training program provides the foundational skills for being an effective tutor. The training is independent of grade and subject.
- Early Literacy: Print Awareness, Phonological Awareness, and Alphabet Knowledge This course explains the research of how students learn to read and how to teach early literacy skills.
- Systematic and Explicit Phonics Instruction This course explains how to provide systematic and explicit phonics instruction to students.
After completing these three courses, an individual will have the foundational knowledge needed to tutor students in reading using a DEED approved intervention or supplemental program.
Virtual Learning
Consortium
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to make virtual education and professional development resources available to students and teachers in Alaska.