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Here’s blurb about a new recource that’s available from the IRIS Center at Peabody:

The IRIS Center is pleased to announce the posting of a new STAR Legacy Module: PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6, a revision and expansion of the PALS section of The Reading Blues: Strategies to Help Upper-Elementary Students Move from Struggle to Success.

When Mrs. Nash, a fifth-grade teacher and recent transfer to Miller Elementary, learns that her new school’s reading scores have fallen below the proficient level, she begins the search for a research-validated approach through which to improve her students’ reading skills. Soon, Mrs. Nash discovers PALS, a peer-assisted learning strategy. Join Mrs. Nash as she learns how to implement PALS in her classroom. To view PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6, please go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pals26/chalcycle.htm.

As always, we encourage you to share all of our materials (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) with Your colleagues and students.

The Institute for Literacy and Learning is offering an outstanding series of presentations over the next few months. Randy Sprick, Sharon Vaughn, Jan Hasbrouck, Rollanda O’Connor, Deb Glaser, Patricia Mathes, and Lucy Hart-Paulson will present free, on-line chats about discipline, reading, assessment in response-to-instruction models, matching interventions to students’ needs, professional development, early language and literacy, and more.
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