Marcia Kosanovich
About
Marcia Kosanovich is the lead for the development of the Toolkit for Differentiating Reading Instruction in Grades K-3 for the REL Southeast. Dr. Kosanovich is also Chief Executive Officer for MK Educational Research & Practice, LLC. She is a literacy educator and researcher with over 25 years of experience teaching and creating professional development and curricula for preschool through grade 12 educators. Dr. Kosanovich has classroom teaching experience in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and third grade, and undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Kosanovich is the lead author of several literacy guidance documents for educators at the state, district, and school levels. She has co-authored intervention reading curricula, research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters in books. For six years, she was the Director of Curriculum and Instructional Projects at FCRR, leading the review of curricula and the development of the Student Center Activities. Dr. Kosanovich can be contacted at mkosanovich@fcrr.org.
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About REL Southeast
Regional Educational Lab (REL) Southeast partners with key stakeholders in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina to develop evidence that can inform consequential decisions about policy, programs, and practice.
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South Carolina Partnership to Implement Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy Part 3
This blog is the third in a series about the South Carolina Partnership to Implement Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy (PLC-EL). It focuses on the value that collaborative research partnerships bring to large-scale studies and share some of the lessons learned along the way.
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Sep 20, 2024
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Training Material
Supporting Children's Reading at Home - Family Resources for Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
Time: 6:30pm to 7:30pm Location: Virtual Description: Participants will receive an overview of the components of the Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home resources and a virtual walk-through of the website containing the resources. Participants will consider how to share the resources with parents and caregivers of rising kindergarten through grade 3 students at their school(s). Participants will be given the opportunity to ask clarifying questions. Research Alliance: Improving Literacy R...
Apr 27, 2021
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Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ
A Third-Grade Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills
This Third Grade Teacher's Guide provides information for third grade teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. Both guides present four research-based recommendations and how-to steps: the WWC guide is for teaching children at school, and this guide is to help teachers support...
Apr 01, 2021
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Training Material
A Second Grade Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills
This is a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade" (ED566956). This guide is organized according to the four recommendations and how-to steps from the WWC practice guide. The activities follow the typical developmental progression through which students learn to read. While teachers may use the guide sequentially, the activities are designed to be used flexibly. Teachers can sel...
Feb 01, 2021
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Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ
Supporting Children's Reading at Home - Family Resources for Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
Time: 2:00pm to 2:45pm Location: Virtual Description: Participants will receive an overview of the components of the Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home resources and a virtual walk-through of the website containing the resources. Participants will consider how to use the resources with children in the home setting and will be given the opportunity to ask clarifying questions. Participants will leave with the knowledge and ability to utilize the REL Southeast's Supporting Your Child's Rea...
Jul 09, 2020
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Other Resource
Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in language and literacy instruction. "Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a professional learning co...
Jan 01, 2020
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A First Grade Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills
Learning to read begins at home through everyday parent-child interactions, long before children attend school. Parents' continuing support of literacy development throughout elementary school positively affects their children's reading ability. Many recent efforts to motivate parents to be involved in their child's literacy development involve informing parents about how to incorporate literacy development into daily routines, such as labeling food items at the grocery store or conversing wh...
Jan 01, 2020
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A Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills
This Kindergarten Teacher's Guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. Both guides present four research-based recommendations and how-to steps: the WWC guide is for teaching children at school, and this guide is to help teachers support families in p...
Jan 01, 2020
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Rubric for Evaluating Reading/Language Arts Instructional Materials for Kindergarten to Grade 5
The implementation of effective instructional materials, such as a core reading program, by a qualified teacher is an important part of improving students' reading achievement. But selecting those instructional materials can be time-consuming. Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast created this rubric for evaluating reading/language arts instructional materials for kindergarten to grade 5 to help educators assess how consistent instructional materials (including core reading programs...
Jan 01, 2017
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Professional learning communities facilitator's guide for the What Works Clearinghouse practice guide: Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast developed a Professional Learning Community (PLC) Facilitators Guide to support educators in the implementation of recommendations from the What Works Clearinghouse's. The practice guide focuses on the foundational reading skills that enable students to read words, relate those words to their oral language, and read connected text with sufficient accuracy and fluency to understand what they read. The practice guide, developed by a panel of e...
Jan 01, 2016
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Video
School Leader's Literacy Walkthrough for Kindergarten to Grade 3
The School Leader's Literacy Walkthrough is designed to assist school leaders in observing specific research-based practices during literacy instruction (or students' independent use or application of those practices). This tool is based on rigorous research that indicates the most effective way to teach reading and is aligned to contemporary state standards. This tool is not meant to be used in the evaluation of teachers. Instead, the tool is intended to help school leaders enhance literacy ...
Aug 03, 2015
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