All cooperating teachers hosting an intern for the University of North Alabama are required to complete the Cooperating Teacher Overview and Rubric Training listed in this section. Even if the training has been completed in the past, we ask for it to be completed as a refresher before scoring rubrics for the student teaching interns.

Cooperating Teacher Overview and Rubric Training

Getting Started-Mentoring an Intern

Providing Effective Feedback and Conversations

Intern Assessments and Solo Teaching

General

• International Literacy Association
• Literacy Teaching Tips
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages
• The Reading Genie
• Reading Rockets

Determining Readability of Text

• Readability Calculator
• Scholastic Book Wizard

Online Text Resources

• DogoNews
• Newsela
• ReadWorks.org

Our Favorite Authors

• Nell Duke
• Tim Shanahan
• Jeff Anderson: The Write Guy
• Richard Allington
• P. David Pearson
• Kwame Alexander - The Crossover
• Renee Watson - Some Places More Than Others

Poetry

• How to Introduce Poetry into the Elementary Classroom
• How to Teach Poetry Step by Step
• Poetry 4 Kids

The Science of Reading

• Can Prevailing Approaches to Reading Instruction Accomplish the Goals of RTI?
• Louisa Moats: Why Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science
• The Science of Reading
• The Science of Reading and Its Educational Implications
• The Science of Reading: What Your Brain Does When You Crack that Summer Novel
• A Conversation with Louisa Moats the Science of Reading 

Sight Word Reading

• Development of Sight Word Reading: Phases and Findings
• Ehri's Four Phases of Word Reading
• Orthographic Mapping in the Acquisition of Sight Word Reading 

Adolescent Literacy 

• Improving Adolescent Literacy with These Classroom Practices

Reading Workshop

• Reading Workshop: What it Looks Like in My Classroom
• Reading Workshop: Instructional Practices
  
• Mini-Lesson Strategies
• Rick's Reading Workshop

Writing Workshop

• NCTE Writing Resources
• Mentor Texts for Writing Workshop in First and Second Grades
• 3 Types of Mentor Texts for Writer's Workshop

Culturally Responsive Classrooms

• Culturally Responsive Curriculum
• What Is Inclusion?
• Selecting and Using Culturally Responsive Children's Books
• Culturally Responsive Books
• Culturally Responsive Teaching
• A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching

Literacy Research

• What Works Clearinghouse
• Literacy Research Association
• Literacy Essentials K-12
• Project Literacy
• Fountas & Pinnell
• Foundational Reading Skills: Ehri's Model of Learning to Read

Comprehension

• Seven Strategies for Teaching Comprehension
• A Review of Current Comprehension Research
• What Research Tells Us About Reading Comprehension

Parent Resources

• Kids & Family Reading Report
• Children's Right to Read
• Reading Tips for Parents
• Ten Read Aloud Commandments
• The Read Aloud Handbook

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Khan Academy
• Engage NY
• The Math Learning Center
• Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI)

• The Council for Economics Education, K-12
• Docsteach
• Newsela
• National Geographic