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Reading & Language Arts

The Reading/Language Arts (RLA) team assists clients in developing and implementing a successful ELA K-12 curriculum that is research-based and aligned with state and federal mandates.

Services include:

  • Reading Academies

  • Kindergarten - Grade 2 professional development and services are available in the following areas:

    • Small group instruction

    • Literacy centers

    • Assessment/monitoring progress

    • Reading comprehension

    • Texas Primary Reading Inventory and Fluency Probe - TPRI

    • Vocabulary development

    • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills - DIBELS

    • Word analysis

    • RLA TEKS Training

    • Fluency development

  • Grades 3-12 professional development and services are available in the following areas:

    • STAAR reading • writing

    • STAAR writing • evaluating student performance

    • STAAR open ended response

    • Co-teaching

    • Reading comprehension

    • Struggling reader strategies

    • Content area reading

    • Struggling writer strategies

    • Small group instruction and literacy stations

    • Vocabulary development

    • Word study

    • Fluency

    • Advanced placement

    • Strategies for struggling varied learners

    • Reading interventions

    • Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies - TALA

    • RLA TEKS Training

    • Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment – TMSFA

Reading, Language Arts Contacts:

Elementary

Amy Duerler

aduerler@esc5.net

409-951-1845

Ashley Safer

asafer@esc5.net

409-951-1804

Lacy Elam

lelam@esc5.net

409-951-1796

Nawase' Sherman

nsherman@esc5.net

409-951-1705

Secondary

Jennifer Robertson

jrobertson@esc5.net

409-951-1785

Reading Academy

Danielle Neely

dneely@esc5.net

409-951-1795

Jennifer Whitehead

jwhitehead@esc5.net

409-951-1726

Kim Adams

kadams@esc5.net

409-951-1714

Susan Hollis (Lead)

scooper@esc5.net

409-951-1761

Program information from Region 5, checked September 7, 2026. View the official source page.