Active self-regulation includes engagement and motivation, executive functioning skills, and strategy use. Although newer versions of Scarborough's Rope include some of this research, the Active View of Reading includes current reading science on the role of these topics on reading ability. The goal is to develop engaged, motivated, independent readers.
Each accordion below has self-paced asynchronous professional learning modules with a mix of video and text resources, opportunities for application and reflection, and contact hours.
If you would like a contact hour for your work, please e-mail Kathy.Bertini@maine.gov
- Motivation & Engagement
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
- Continuum of Engagement module focuses on looking at student engagement holistically & its connection to student-centered inquiry.
- Maine's Solutionaries Project is designed to teach students how to be solutionary thinkers and problem solvers.
- Voice and Choice module looks at how students can have a voice in their school and in their work, along with choices about how to interact and show their learning.
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices (WWC Practice Guide) provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading interventions to meet the diverse needs of their students.
- Adolescent Literacy Intervention Selection Tool (A-List Tool) provides information about literacy programs for grades 4-12 to help educators make informed intervention program choices.
- Navigating Neuroscience: Strategies to Increase Literacy Engagement video explores factors causing disengagement in literacy, strategies for reengaging students, and methods to integrate student interests and cultural background into literacy instruction.
- Executive Function Skills & Strategy Use
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
- AIM Steps to Literacy Learning Modules - Module 6: Demystifying Dyslexia
- Dyslexia and Executive Functioning: Classroom Accommodations article provides strategies and tips for helping students with dyslexia develop their executive functioning skills.
- Executive Function Skills Supporting Literacy & Numeracy module explores the importance of these skills and strategies through the lenses of literacy and numeracy.
- Executive Function Strategies and Resources Padlet provides a variety of resources supporting executive function skills and strategies.