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Partnership for Reading: Great Downloadable Resources!
The Partnership
for Reading offers information about the effective teaching
of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on
the evidence from quality research. The Partnership invites
you to explore this site for information on the research,
principles about reading instruction suggested by the research,
and products for parents, teachers, administrators, and policy-makers.
For useful documents to support teachers, parents, and administrators,
please see
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html |
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Florida Center for Reading Research
This website
is loaded with great information, especially for professional
developers and others interested in topics related to early
intervention and prevention. Nationally recognized literacy
experts—including Drs. Joe Torgesen, Rick Wagner, and
Chris Lonigan—have posted research articles, book chapters,
and recent professional presentations in both PowerPoint and
Acrobat Reader. In terms of practical resources, the
center also has a great "consumer
report" style review of current reading programs
based on available research and critical analysis. |
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Reading First Initiative
Reading First is an ambitious national initiative to help
every young child in every state become a successful reader.
This effort is based on high expectations for what can and
should happen for all students: that instructional decisions
will be guided by the best available research. Two excellent
publications are available for download from the Reading First
website, Put
Reading First for Teachers and Put Reading First for Parents. |
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"Write Right" Instructional Video Series
Noted author, storyteller, and educator Kendall Haven collaborated
with the Sonoma County Office of Education to produce a five-part
video series on the "Write Right" narrative writing
process. Linked to the Language Arts writing standards, "Write
Right" was filmed in a fifth-grade classroom at West
Side School in Sonoma County. It provides teachers with a
step-by-step analysis of how to teach all students to write
"stories that work." More information about the
videos and an order form is included in this
PDF file (108 K). |
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Guidelines for Teaching Reading
Training educators to teach reading can no longer be confined
to one-session inservice workshops funded by a publisher.
Instead, teachers must be properly instructed over time and
given day-to-day opportunities in school to review and practice
the best ways to help children read. That is the essence of
a new report released Dec. 6, Every
Child Reading: A Professional Development Guide, a companion
piece to the Learning First Alliance’s 1998 landmark
report, “Every Child Reading: An Action Plan.” |
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Strengthen Home-School Literacy Connections
A
Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families,
teachers, principals, and students to work together to help
improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third
grade children. Two publications, A Compact for Reading
Guide and the School-Home Links Reading Kit, are designed
to help set reading goals and provide lessons and activities
that allow children to accomplish these goals. The Compact
for Reading is a joint project of the US Department of Education,
the Corporation for National Service, the Los Angeles Times,
and Little Planet Learning.
Books
and Beyond is a reading incentive program created specifically
to improve attitudes towards reading and to foster a love
of books. Designed to help each and every child enjoy positive
recreational reading experiences, Books and Beyond provides
strategies that help teachers and schools create an exciting
atmosphere where reading is the “in” thing to do.
Parents are an integral part of Books and Beyond and are encouraged
to read aloud to their children and to build home literacy
behaviors. In addition, a television viewing component helps
students and their parents become more aware of their TV habits. |
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Dr. Anita Archer Reading Instruction Video Series
The Effective Reading Instruction Video Series, featuring
Dr. Anita Archer, is now available from SCOE. The series includes
seven tapes on specific topics related to beginning reading,
plus five classroom demonstration tapes, grades K-5. Each
tape comes with discussion questions and related research
articles. Call (707) 524-2759 for information or download
a copy of the order
form (PDF). |
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Overcoming Dyslexia
An excellent new book by noted Yale researcher Sally Shaywitz, MD, provides the single best summary I have ever seen of reading problems and what can be done to solve them. The book is especially written for parents, teachers, and the lay public. |
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