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On the Web
- Reading - Suite101.com - An extensive directory of web sites relating to reading instruction and research.
- Reading-Now - Reading instruction for beginning reading skills: word recognition, phonics, dolch sight words, syllables, and vowels.
- Delaware County Community College: Reading Department - Resource for teachers and people interested in current issues and information surrounding reading. Includes suggested activities, tips, FAQs and reading lists.
- Research in Reading Recovery - A collection of academic research about the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery approach.
- International Reading Association - Seeks to improve quality of reading instruction through studying the reading processes and teaching techniques; serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research.
- Teachers.Net - Remedial Reading/Reading Recovery chatboard
- The Science of Reading - Visit from presidential advisor spurs debate over literacy instruction versus research. [Fort Wayne Journal Gazette]
- Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading body. - This paper examines some textual devices that writers may use to pre-structure the activities of their readers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used as an 'explicating device' to explore how writers can provide reading instructions, and how these can be experienced by readers. Structuring devices like paragraphs and sections, and hypertextual elements like notes and references are investigated in detail. In this way, the paper aspires to contribute to 'an ethnomethodology of textual practices'. - Abstract from Article
- Speed Reading 4 Kids - A simplified method for kids (teens and adults, too) to learn speed reading and improve comprehension; ADD, Dyslexic, ADHD, and other'Reading Disability' kids often excel with this program.
- Reading Comprehension Stories with Worksheets - EdHelper.com's reading comprehension stories combine reading, math, spelling, writing, and vocabulary skills.
Wikipedia Articles
- Diane McGuinness - Diane McGuiness is a cognitive psychologist who has written extensively on education, learning disabilities, and early reading instruction. Her books include When Children Don't Learn (1987), Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading (1999), Growing a Reader From Birth (2004), and Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach ...
- Reading First - Reading First is a federal education program in the United States mandated under the No Child Left Behind Act and administered by the Department of Education which requires that schools funded by Reading First use "scientifically-based" reading instruction About reading first .
- International Reading Association - The International Reading Association is an international professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialogue about research on reading, and encourage the habit of reading. The IRA headquarters is in Newark, DE, United States.
- Reading Recovery - Reading Recovery is a supplementary education program that aims to offer the lowest-achieving first-grade children an effective method of English language reading and writing instruction.
- Nila Banton Smith - Nila Banton Smith (1889-1976) was a teacher, administrator and specialist in reading instruction. For her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University she wrote An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction.