Links to Literacy Research
www.sra4kids.com is a link from the SRA/Open Court reading series teacher's guide. Even though one would assume that this site might be biased toward the reading methodology espoused by this series, there is some very interesting research discussed on this site. You may be interested to know exactly WHO benefits from various research projects or what outcomes flow from those data.
If you want to learn more about Read Naturally, a program to develop fluency as well as increase comprehension, you can learn more at www.readnaturally.com
Here is a link to learn about Reading Recovery
US Department of Education is a good starting place. Their site is simply www.ed.gov .
From there you can move on to their list of research and statistics links.
One excellent resource is Put Reading First:: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read This 58-page teacher's guide provides a framework for using the findings of the National Reading Panel (NRP) in the classroom. It describes the NRP findings and provides analysis and discussion in five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. Each section also suggests implications for classroom instruction with examples of how the findings can be implemented.
To fill parents in on how they can make use of the National Reading Panel findings, there is a great brochure also. Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read. This 8-page brochure, designed for parents of young children, describes the kinds of early literacy activities that children need to experience at home and at school to help them learn to read successfully. The brochure's recommendations are based on the findings of the National Reading Panel. This would be a wonderful resource to share with parents.
Of course you MUST be connected to the International Reading Association (i.e. IRA). From there, you may want to type National Reading Panel into the Search engine so you can link to the IRA's summary of the National Reading Panel Report "Teaching Children to Read". This report is designed to be a quick reference guide to the National Reading Panel report, the IRA summary focuses on the work of five panel subgroups, each of which was charged with reviewing research on a specific topic:
Alphabetics, including phonemic awareness and phonics
Fluency
Comprehension, including vocabulary, text comprehension, and strategies
Teacher education and reading instruction
Computer technology and reading instruction
For those seeking more information in any of these areas, the summary provides links to related IRA resources. It is also designed to assist educators, researchers, students, and others in using the NRP findings to plan research, design curriculum, write grant applications, or advocate sound education policy at any level.
Reading Online is a journal of K-12 literacy research published by the International Reading Association.
On the web page for National Reading Conference http://nrc.oakland.edu/ you can find two excellent papers which discuss issues in reading instruction Effective Beginning Reading Instruction by Michael Pressley and Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents by Donna E. Alvermann. Pressley's paper takes issue with some of the studies that the National Reading Panel excluded from their analysis
One of the works that was foundational to the NRP's work is Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children which is a meta-analysis of research. You can actually read this entire book online and search through it for specific topics!!
WOW - if you go to the National Academy Press site you can link to 98 different books on reading that you can READ ONLINE!!! It is amazing! You can also read various materials (although you can't print all of them) from CIERA (Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement) if you look at the CIERA Library you can read any of these Instructional Resources:
- Every Child a Reader;
- Every Child a Reader: Companion Readings
- Teaching Every Child to Read: Frequently Asked Questions
- Teaching Every Child to Read: Professional Development Guide
- Improving Comprehension
- Improving Achievement
- Eager to Learn
- Hot Lists
- Ideas at Work
- Ready Reference
This site gives you the chance to jump directly to the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation web site (which supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform) to other education-related web sites. They've picked some that they like and others you may want to access. It's organized into four categories: Organizations, Think Tanks, Federal & State Government Sites, and Publications. You can link to almost any educational organization you can imagine!
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