Holiday 2022 SOR Booklist

As teachers move away from balanced literacy instruction grounded in using leveled text and "word solving" based on the text's meaning, syntax, and visual information, several practical questions emerge about classroom grouping practices.

Instructional coherence describes the strategic alignment of a student’s academic experience across every setting in the school day. It often is defined as instruction that shares the same content, skills, and language across core classroom instruction (Tier 1) and intervention instruction (Tiers 2 and 3).