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Learning to Read
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"Early reading skills provide the foundation for children's academic
success." --Lonigan, et al., 1999
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| What
We Know |
Age Level: |
| * Sharing
Books with Babies: What is Early Literacy? |
0-3 years |
| The
Beginnings of Literacy |
0-3 years |
| * Growing
Up to Read |
0-4 years |
| Side
by Side on the Road to Reading Success |
0-5 years |
| * Preventing
Reading Difficulties Before Kindergarten |
0-5 years |
| * A
Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents |
0-5 years |
| * Ready to Read: Building Skills Through Early Care and Education |
0-5 years |
| Emergent
Literacy, A Polophony of Perspectives |
0-5 years |
| * Understanding
Early Literacy |
0-5 years |
| Emerging
Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning |
0-6 years |
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Teaching Our Youngest |
0-6 years |
| * Intergenerational
Transfer of Literacy |
0-8 years |
| * Children
and Books: Begin the Connection Early |
0-8 years |
| * Phonics
and Whole Language Learning: A Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading |
0-8 years |
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Born
to Read: How to Raise a Reader |
0-8 years |
| * Creating
a Home Literacy Environment |
0-8 years |
| Start
Early, Finish Strong: How To Help Every Child Become a Reader |
0-8 years |
| * Starting
Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success |
0-8 years |
| * Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children |
0-8 years |
| Addressing
the Literacy Needs of Emergent and Early Readers |
0-8 years |
 Evidence-based Center
for Early Literacy Development |
0-8 years |
| Evidence-based Center
for Early Literacy Development; Practice-based research synthesis |
0-8 years |
| Evidence-based
Center for Early Literacy Development; Assessment tools and Instruments |
0-8 years
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| * Reading and the
Brain (video) |
0-8 years |
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Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers |
2-5 years |
| *
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers |
2-5 years |
| Emergent
Literacy: What Young Children Can Learn about Reading and Writing Before
They Go to School |
2-6 years |
| Early Reading and Scientifically-Based
Research |
2-6 years |
| Literacy Milestones |
3-4 years |
| Preschool
Teacher's Self-Reported Beliefs And Practices About Literacy Instruction |
3-5 years |
| * Emergent
Literacy: Synthesis of the Research |
3-5 years |
| * Learning
and Teaching Preschool |
3-5 years |
| * Literacy
standards for preschool learners |
3-6 years |
| * A
Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental
Accomplishments and Student Behaviors |
3-8 years |
| Phonics,
Decoding, and Word Identification Defined |
3-8 years |
| Issues
in Literacy Development |
3-8 years |
| Learning
to Read and Write: A Place to Start |
3-8 years |
| * Early Literacy Guidance, prekindergarten
- grade 3 (New York) |
3-8 years |
| * Early
Reading Information |
3-9 years |
| * Integrated
Teaching Units |
3-10 years |
| * Building
a Powerful Reading Program: From Research to Practice |
3-14 years |
| * Early
Literacy, A Resource For Teachers |
4-8 years |
| The
Early Literacy Project |
4-8 years |
| * Phonics (video) |
4-8 years |
| Ways
Technology Supports Early Literacy |
4-12 years |
| Literacy Milestones |
5 years |
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Components
of Kindergarten Literacy |
5-6 years |
| * Children’s
Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten and First Grade |
5-7 years |
| * Preventing
Reading Difficulties |
5-8 years |
| * Becoming
real readers |
5-8 years |
| * Some
Principles from the Reading Research |
5-8 years |
| Put Reading First: The Research
Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read |
5-8 years |
| * Put Reading First |
5-8 years |
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Strategies for Teachers and Parents |
5-8 years |
| Big
Ideas in Beginning Reading |
5-8 years |
| Balanced
Reading Instruction |
5-8 years |
| Seeking
Common Ground: Immerse Kids in Books and Teach Them Skills, Too |
5-8 years |
| Text
Matters in Learning to Read |
5-8 years |
| Every
Child a Reader: Applying Reading Research in the Classroom |
5-8 years |
| Identifying Risk
Factors to Prevent Difficulties |
5-8 years |
| Components of Effective, Research-Supported
Reading Instruction |
5-9 years |
| Put
Reading First: The research building blocks for teaching children to read |
5-9 years |
| * Beating
the odds in teaching all children to read |
5-9 years |
| * A
Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents, Kindergarten
Through Third Grade |
5-9 years |
| Effective
Schools/Accomplished Teachers |
5-9 years |
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The
Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read |
5-9 years |
| * Transforming Ideas for Teaching
and Learning to Read |
5-10 years |
| Differentiated Instruction for
Reading |
5-10 years |
| * Understanding
Early Literacy Development: A Review of Research and Practice |
5-10 years |
| Reading
Teacher Education in the Next Millennium: What your Grandmother’s Teacher didn’t
know that your Granddaughter’s Teacher Should |
5-10 years |
| A Handbook of Effective Instruction
in Literacy |
5-10 years |
| * Beating
the Odds in Teaching all Children to Read: Lessons from Effective Schools
and Exemplary Teachers |
5-10 years |
| One
Down and 80,000 to Go: Word Recognition Instruction in the Primary Grades |
5-10 years |
| What Makes Differentiate
Instruction Successful? |
5-10 years |
| * Balanced
Literacy from Phonemes to Fluency |
5-12 years |
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* Six Effective Comprehension
Strategies: Six Essential Reading Strategies |
5-13 years |
| Computer-Assisted Instruction
and Reading |
5-14 years |
| Literacy Milestones |
6 years |
| The
Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade |
6-7 years |
| Learning
to Read Words: Linguistic Units & Strategies |
6-7 years |
| Literature
Anthologies: The Task for First-Grade Readers |
6-7 years |
| Text
Leveling and Little Books in First-Grade Reading |
6-7 years |
| * The
Four Blocks Literacy Model |
6-8 years |
| Sample
Video of Early Reading and Writing Instruction |
6-8 years |
| Comprehension
Instruction in the Primary Grades |
6-11 years |
| * Developing Fluency (video) |
7-10 years |
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Age Level: |
| * Family
Literacy-What Can You Do With Infants? |
0-2 years |
| Activities for Reading and Writing
Fun: Birth to Preschool |
0-3 years |
| What
We Know About Early Language and Literacy Development |
0-3 years |
| READ*WRITE*NOW!
Activities for Reading and Writing Fun |
0-3 years |
| Activities
to Help Your Child Learn About Language |
0-6 years |
| * Beginning Reading Instruction:
Practical Ideas for Parents |
0-7 years |
| * Helping
Your Child Become Better Readers – A Reading Checkup Guide |
0-8 years |
| * Helping
Children Learn about Reading |
0-8 years |
| Helping
Your Child Learn to Read |
0-8 years |
| Literacy Learning
Activities |
0-8 years |
| * How to
Nurture a Growing Reader |
0-12 years |
| * Simple
Things Families Can Do to Help Their Child Become a Reader |
0-13 years |
| * Simple
Strategies for Creating Strong Readers |
0-13 years |
| * Family
Literacy: What Can You Do With Toddlers? |
2-3 years |
| * Webbing Into Literacy |
2-6 years |
| Techniques
for Encouraging Reading in Young Children |
2-6 years |
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2-7 years |
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2-18 years |
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3-4 years |
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3-5 years |
| Preschool
Classroom Literacy Activities |
3-5 years |
| * One
Letter Books |
3-6 years |
| * Getting
Ready to Read and Write in Child Care |
3-6 years |
| * Get Ready to Read! |
3-6 years |
| *
Reading Games for Young Children |
3-6 years |
| Perpetual
Preschool: Language Arts |
3-6 years |
| Nine Great Time
to Read in Child Care Settings |
3-6 years |
| * Preschool
and Kindergarten Activities |
3-7 years |
| Activities
for Reading and Writing Fun: Preschool- 2nd grade |
3-8 years |
| * Readquarium |
3-8 years |
| * Action
Words for Consonants |
3-8 years |
| * Promoting
Reading at Home |
3-8 years |
| * ABCTeach |
3-8 years |
| Raising
a Reader |
3-8 years |
| Literacy
Tips for the 10-Minute Parent |
3-8 years |
| Making
the Most Out of Junk Mail |
3-8 years |
| Let's
Write! |
3-8 years |
| READ*WRITE*NOW!
Beginning to Read |
3-8 years |
| Gateway
Lesson Plans |
3-8 years |
| * The Literacy
Center |
3-8 years |
| * Parent's
Calendar for Language/Reading Development |
3-8 years |
| Sesame
Street |
3-8 years |
| * Parent's
Corner: Reading |
3-8 years |
| * Putting
Research to Use: Activities to Help Children Read |
3-8 years |
| * Mrs.
Alphabet’s Games |
3-8 years |
| * Creating
a Literacy-Rich Classroom |
3-8 years |
| * Building
Children’s Background Knowledge and Thinking Skills |
3-8 years |
| By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds
of Language on the Go |
3-8 years |
| Activity
Books You Can Make |
3-10 years |
| 103 Things to Do
Before/During/After Reading |
3-10 years |
| * Illustrate
a Story |
3-12 years |
| Learning
the Alphabet: Interactive Game |
4-6 years |
| * Pocket
Chart Ideas for Preschool and Kindergarten and First Grades |
4-7 years |
| * Putting
Research to use: Activities to Help Children Read |
4-8 years |
| * Clifford
the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybook |
4-8 years |
| The
Little Animals Activity Centre |
4-8 years |
| * Reading
On Activities for Beginning Readers and Readers |
4-8 years |
| * Fun
Reading Tips and Activities |
4- 8 years |
| Phonological
Awareness Literacy Activities |
4- 9 years |
| Supporting
Early Literacy Skills with KidDesk |
4-10 years |
| * Chateau
Meddybemps |
4-12 years |
| Funbrain |
4-16 years |
| Literacy Activities for Kindergarten |
5-6 years |
| * Kindergarten
Literacy |
5-6 years |
| * School
- Home Links Reading Kit-Kindergarten Activities |
5-6 years |
| Kindergarten
Teacher's Guide: Get Wild About Reading |
5-6 years |
| * Literacy
Zone: Interactive Games |
5-7 years |
| Learning
to Read: Interactive books |
5-7 years |
| * Some Simple Ways to Help Your
Elementary Child Learn to Read |
5-8 years |
| * Bembo’s
ABC Zoo |
5-8 years |
| * GreenTown
Elementary School Theme Units |
5-8 years |
| Rebus
Rhymes |
5-8 years |
| * Family
Literacy: What Can You Do With Your Child After Age Five? |
5-8 years |
| Every
Child a Reader |
5-8 years |
| Literacy Guidance
for Parents in Multiple Languages |
5-8 years |
| * A
Compact for Reading: School – Home Links |
5-9 years |
| From
Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print |
5-8 years |
| Animal
Study: From Fiction to Facts |
5-8 years |
| * Name
Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom |
5-8 years |
| * Read Along Stories and Songs |
5-8 years |
| * Compact
for Reading - A Reading Partnership Action Kit |
5-9 years |
| * A Handbook of Effective Instruction in Literacy |
5-10 years |
| Words
and Pictures |
5-10 years |
| Language
Arts Mini-Lessons |
5-10 years |
| Electronic
Books |
5-10 years |
| Literacy
Activities and Lesson Ideas |
5-10 years |
| * Literacy Activities
for Grades K-5th |
5-10 years |
| * Graphic
Organizer Templates |
5-10 years |
| * Guided Reading
Helps |
5-10 years |
| * Informal Assessment (video) |
5-10 years |
| Differentiated Classroom Structures
for Literacy Instruction |
5-10 years |
| * Parent
Information Resource Center, Reading Activities Downloads |
5-12 years |
| * Helping
Children Read to Learn |
5-12 years |
| Internet
Public Library Reading Zone |
5-12 years |
| Word Games |
5-13 years |
| Read, Write, Think: Lesson Plan
Index |
5-13 years |
| * 10 Options
for Reading Outside the Book |
5-13 years |
| * Resources
from the Power of 2 |
5-18 years |
| Lesson
Plan Ideas from the Commonwealth of Knowledge |
5-18 years |
| * Read,
Write, Think Literacy Activities |
5- 18 years |
| Literacy
Activities for First Grade |
6-7 years |
| * School-Home
Links Reading Kit-First Grade Activities |
6-7 years |
| * READO
- A Game to Motivate Your Child to Read |
6-8 years |
| It’s Fun to Read |
6- 8 years |
| * Wall
of Words |
6-10 years |
| * Reading
Games for Bigger Kids |
6-12 years |
| * School
- Home Links Reading Kit - Second Grade Activities |
7-8 years |
| Using Collaborative Strategic
Reading |
7-10 years |
| The
Little Reading Café |
7-10 years |
| * School-Home
Links Reading Kit-Third Grade Activities |
8-9 years |
| * Language Arts
Activities for Grades 3-5 |
8-11 years |
| Activities
for Reading and Writing Fun: Grades Three through Six |
8-12 years |
| * Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probes |
8-12 years |
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Special Needs
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Age Level:
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| Emergent
Literacy: Curricular and Instructional Implications for Diverse Learners |
0-5 years |
| Inviting
Your Deaf Child Into The Literacy Club: A Parent Resource For Facilitating
Literacy in Deaf Children |
0-5 years |
| Early
Literacy: Braille and the Young Child |
0-5 years |
| Emergent
Literacy and Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired |
0-5 years |
| Reading Difficulties and Family
History |
0-8 years |
| The
Development of Language and Reading |
0-10 years |
| * Literacy
Resources for Special Needs |
0-14 years |
| Deaf
Children in the Mainstream: What You Need to Know |
2-5 years |
| Computer
Supported Literacy Project: Preschool Emergent Literacy Classroom |
2-6 years |
| Emergent
Literacy: What Young Children Can Learn About Reading and Writing Before
They Go to School |
2-6 years |
| Adapting
Literacy Activities for Young Children |
2-8 years |
| Literacy
Activities for Children with Special Needs |
3-5 years |
| Becoming
Bilingual: Facilitating English Literacy Development Using ASL in PreSchool
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3-6 years |
| Early
Literacy for Inner-City Children: The Effects of Reading and Writing Interventions
in English and Spanish During the Preschool Years |
3-6 years |
| * Parameters of Literacy for Children
with Developmental Disabilities |
3-8 years |
| * Get
Ready to Read! |
3-8 years |
| Issues
in Emergent Literacy for Children with Language Impairments |
3-8 years |
| Emergent Literacy
of Deaf Children |
3-8 years |
| * Encouraging
Preliteracy Skills in Young Children with Speech and Language Disorders |
3-10 years |
| Research-Supported Assessment-Intervention
Links for Reading and Writing |
3-12 years |
| Literacy
Ideas for Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities |
3-14 years |
| Tutorials
for Assistive Technology Reading and Writing Products |
3-18 years |
| * Automatic
Speech for PowerPoint Presentations |
3 to adult |
| * Reading
and English Language Learners |
4-15 years |
| Seeking Help for a Struggling
Reader: 8 Steps for Parents |
5-8 years |
| Seeking Help for a Struggling
Reader: 7 Steps for Teachers |
5-8 years |
| Dialect and Reading Difficulties |
5-8 years |
| Activities
for Struggling Readers |
5-8 years |
| Guidelines
for Planning and Instruction for Literacy |
5-8 years |
| Beating
the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read Literature |
5-8 years |
| Early
Reading Programs in High-Poverty Schools: Emerald Elementary Beats the Odds |
5-8 years |
| * Meeting
the Literacy Needs of Struggling Readers in the Early Elementary Years |
5-8 years |
| * Reading Rock Video (understand
and encourage struggling readers) |
5-8 years |
| * Empowering Parents Video (early
signs of reading problems) |
5-8 years |
| *
Becoming Bilingual Video (examines the challenges of teaching children
to read in a new language) |
5-8 years |
| Seeking Help for a Struggling
Readers: 7 Steps for Teachers |
5-8 years |
| Other Sources of Reading Difficulty |
5-8 years |
| How to Adapt Your Teaching
Strategies to Student Needs |
5-8 years |
| Instructional
Variables to Consider in Meeting Individual Needs |
5-10 years |
| Learner
Variables to Consider in Meeting Individual Needs |
5-10 years |
| * Including
Readers with Special needs |
5-10 years |
| * Teaching
Reading to Students who are English Language Learners |
5-10 years |
| Why Some Children Have Difficulties
Learning to Read |
5- 10 years |
| Grouping Students
Who Struggle with Reading |
5-10 years |
| Groupings that Work
for Students with Disabilities |
5-10 years |
| How to Modify your
Teaching for Students with Low Organizational Skills |
5-10 years |
| Cornerstones:
Building Blocks of Literacy |
5-11 years |
| * Retelling
Stories for Students who are English Language Learners |
5–11 years |
| One
Child at a Time… A Parent Handbook and Resource Directory for African
American Families with Children who Learn Differently |
5-12 years |
| Braille Bug |
5-13 years |
| *
What Does It Mean
to Be a Struggling Reader? |
5-13 years |
| * Misunderstood Minds |
5-17 years |
| * Using
Digital Cameras in the Classroom to Promote Learning for Students who
are English
Language Learners |
5-17 years |
| * Using
Timelines to Enhance Comprehension for Students who are English Language
Learners |
5-17 years |
| * Literature
Circles for Students who are English Language Learners |
5-17 years |
| * Hands-On
Literacy Activities for Students who are English Language Learners |
5-17 years |
| * Using
Graphic Organizers with Students who are English Language Learners |
5-17 years |
| Early Reading Proficiency and
its Relationship to Accessing the Curriculum |
5-18 years |
| Technologies
to Support Reading Comprehension in Children with Disabilities |
5-18 years |
| Information
on Reading Recovery |
6-8 years |
| A
Primary Reading Program for Beginning Braille Readers |
6-8 years |
| Learning
to Read, Reading to Learn: Helping Children With Learning Disabilities To
Succeed |
6-8 years |
| Reading
Rates of Young Braille-Reading Children |
6-8 years |
| Flexible
Grouping and Group Retellings Include Struggling Learners in Classroom Communities |
6 years & up |
| Reading
Comprehension and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities |
8-18 years |
| * Improving
Comprehension for Students with LD |
8 years & up |
| Book Share: Accessible Books for People with Visual or Other Print Disabilities |
8 years & up |
| Computer
Supported Literacy: Reading, Writing and Referencing |
All Ages |
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