PD resources to achieve Common Core Standards
You’ve accepted an important challenge: Prepare all students for college and career. The first step is setting a good foundation with solid literacy instruction.
IRA is your best source, as we have been for over 50 years, with field-leading PD resources to help you meet the Common Core Standards challenge head-on. Our books are written by educators for educators, tackling the topics you care about and giving you the tools necessary to help all learners succeed.
Browse through the titles below, and be sure to check out the many supplementary materials available with select books. You’ll find DVDs, downloadable PD guides, sample chapters, and related websites that can help you customize your PD experience.
Also, send an e-mail publications@reading.org and let us help you make these resources work in your school or district.
For more resources please see IRA’s Common Core Standards pages.
- Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp
- Small-Group Reading Instruction: Differentiated Teaching Models for Intermediate Readers, Grades 3–8
- Guided Comprehension, Grades 3–8, combined 2nd edition
- Guided Comprehension, Primary Grades, 2nd edition
- Comprehension Shouldn't Be Silent – free PD Study Guide to download
- Reciprocal Teaching, 2nd ed. – free PD Study Guide to download; companion DVD available separately
- Fun-Tastic Activities for Differentiating Comprehension Instruction – free chapter full of immediate ideas
- Essential Readings on Comprehension
- Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning – great for content teachers
- Building Reading Comprehension in Grades 6–12 – great for content teachers
- Guiding Readers Through Text, 2nd ed.
- Reading and Writing Grade by Grade – includes DVD
- Reading and Writing With Understanding – supplementary white papers to download
- Creating Strategic Readers, 2nd ed. – includes resource CD
- Small-Group Reading Instruction, 2nd ed. – includes resource CD; companion DVD available separately
- In a Reading State of Mind – includes DVD; free PD Study Guide available to download
- Guided Comprehension for English Learners by Maureen McLaughlin
Improving Classroom Practice
- Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp
- Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K–12, 2nd ed.
- Read, Write, Play, Learn: Literacy Instruction in Today's Kindergarten
- Sustaining Strategic Readers (Ellery & Rosenboom)
- Content Counts! Developing Disciplinary Literacy Skills, K-6 (Altieri)
- What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction (4th Ed.; Farstrup & Samuels, eds.)
- Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade – includes DVD
- Small-Group Reading Instruction, 2nd ed. – includes resource CD; companion DVD available separately
- Small-Group Reading Instruction (Intermediate Learners)
- Understanding and Using Reading Assessments
- Creating Strategic Readers, 2nd ed.
- Preventing Misguided Reading