Reading Resources
Below you will find resources that I have found helpful in my own reading instruction and would like to share with you.
- ERIC Digest article by Mila Stoicheva explains the pros and cons of balanced reading with examples and research findings.
- A list of books pertaining to reading instruction.
- The California Language Arts Content Standards represent a strong consensus on the skills, knowledge, and abilities all students should be able to master at specific grade levels during the school thirteen-year career.
- This project explored the effects of an Interactive Technology Literacy Curriculum on emergent literacy knowledge and abilities of 3, 4, and 5-year-old children who demonstrated mild to moderate disabilities.
- SCORE Online Resources for Education offers activities linked to the California Content Standards for language arts focused on reading word analysis, fluency, systematic vocabulary development, and reading comprehension.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards works to strengthen the teaching profession and to improve student learning in America's schools.
The Lexia Research Base explains their findings with regard to children learning to read English particularly with regard to Phonics-based Reading and Reading SOS.
SRA offers this free sample placement test for decoding to help you determine appropriate diagnostic tools.
- This collection of links compiled by George Suttle includes ideas to help motivate students to read, research journals and articles, lesson plans and teaching strategies, information on reading disabilities, and ideas for student writing.
- Reciprocal teaching is an instructional procedure designed to enhance students' comprehension of text. Find step-by-step directions for using the procedure and a helpful set of cards to guide students in the process.
- CyberGuides for teachers and students with Internet units, activities, and projects.
- Beginning readers and writers need to have explicit, systematic instruction in learning to blend and segment words. These activities relate to phonics and spelling development..
- This report summarizes the major issues the Fall Forum presenters and attendees said must be addressed for the successful reform of reading instruction in California's schools and focuses on how teachers learn to teach reading to children and the best practices to consider including in their instructional repertoire.
- Information on word attack skills including definition, discussion, examples, and resources provided by LinguaLinks.
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