Reading Resources

Below you will find resources that I have found helpful in my own reading instruction.

• Balanced Reading Instruction

  ERIC Digest Article prepared by Mila Stoicheva discussing the benefits of offering a balanced reading curriculum as no single approach to reading is best for all students.

• Bibliography

A list of books pertaining to reading instruction.

• California Language Arts Contents Standards

  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 their thirteen-year school career.

• Learning Record Online

The Learning Record is an open record of literacy achievement, K-12, maintained and monitored by the classroom teacher to provide evidence that students are moving toward agreed upon goals and standards.


• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

  The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards works to strengthen the teaching profession and to improve student learning in America's schools.

• Phonemic Awareness: An Important Early Step in Learning to Read
  
• Phonemic Awareness: What Does It Mean?
  
• Sound Partners: Phonics Based Reading Instruction
  
• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

A report by the National Research Council (NRC).

• Read Aloud Protocols

This guide to lesson planning will help you plan your lessons for the Read Aloud Protocols. A Chair for My Mother is the lesson featured here.


• Reading with Children

  The program outline in PDF for Reading with Children, Part 2, Student Program A.2. You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to access this document.

• Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Web

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.


• Reading Scale 1, K-3; Becoming a Reader

  The Center for Language and Learning provides a helpful rubric in assessing student reading achievement.

• SCORE California Language Arts

CyberGuides for teachers and students with Internet units, activities, and projects.


• Spelling Development

  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..

• Teaching Teachers to Teach Reading

This report summarizes the major issues that the Fall Forum presenters and attendees said must be addressed for the successful reform of reading instruction in California's schools. It focuses on how teachers learn to teach reading to children and describes the best practices to consider for their instructional repertoire.

 

• Word Attack Strategies

  Information on research, assessment, and instructional strategies provided by the Early Reading Technology Project.

• Writing Scale 1 - K-3: Becoming a Writer

  A rubric to assist assessment of writing skills.

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