Learning
to Read... Reading to
Learn
Web Sites
Read
reviews of research-based reading programs at the Florida
Center for Reading Research whose director, Joseph Torgesen, Ph.D., is
also Director of the "Power for Kids" study in Allegheny County
in Pennsylvania.
"Report
of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read" (4/13/00)
"A Scientific Approach
to Reading Instruction"
"Big
Ideas in Beginning Reading" (University of Oregon)
"Components of Effective,
Research-Supported Reading Instruction"
"Critical
Issues in Developing a High-Quality Reading Program" (2001)
"Doing
Your Homework: Research-Based Reading Instruction" Sue Heath
Get Ready to Read (National Center
for Learning Disabilities)
"How
Do I Know a Good Early Reading Program When I See One?", First Lady
Laura Bush
The International Children's Digital Library
(ICDL) is a
five-year project to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least
100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians,
parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet (To use Enhanced
ICDL, you must download Java Virtual Machine Software - at no cost - as explained
on the web site)
"LDA Reading
and Learning Disabilities Position Paper" (April, 2001)
"Measuring Success:Using
Assessments and Accountability to Raise Student Achievement" - Reid
Lyon's testimony to U.S. House of Representatives - 3/8/01
"Multisensory
Structured Language Programs: Content and Principles of Instruction"
Put
Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read,
2nd Edition, 6/03,
Reading Rockets (An excellent
web site from WETA, the public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C).
"Reading
by Sight" (Sebastian Wren)
What
Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading and What Teachers Aren't Learning
"Teaching
a Child to Read: Special Ed or Reading First?" Sue Heath
"When Older Students Can't
Read" (Louisa Moats, Ph.D).
Whole
Language High Jinks: How to Tell When "Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction"
Isn't
"Whole
Language Lives On: The Illusion of 'Balanced' Reading Instruction"
