Learning to read and write is exciting for children. The goal of this booklet is to provide caregivers with some information about how they can help young learners become readers and writers.
Using Collaborative Strategic Reading by Janette K. Klingner and Sharon Vaughn
CSR is an excellent technique for teaching students reading comprehension and building vocabulary and working together cooperatively.
Explicit Instruction by Dana Robertson
When teachers adaptively use explicit instruction to engage their students with text, they weave together several important elements of effective instruction: scaffolds, engagement, knowledge building, and intensity through coherence and increased content coverage.
Interactive Teaching to Promote Independent Learning from Text
Reciprocal teaching has been effectively implemented by teachers working in both small and large group
settings, in a peer tutoring situation, in content area instruction, and most recently in listening comprehension instruction.
Teaching Reading Is More Than a Science: It’s Also an Art by Paige et al.
The art of teaching acknowledges teachers’ judgment and its role in the critical decisions made by teachers regarding the SOR and the selection, preparation, delivery, and assessment of literacy activities within the social interactions of the classroom.
What Constitutes a Science of Reading Instruction? by Timothy Shanahan
One’s comfort with today’s science of reading seems to depend on which instructional approaches one advocates and what one is willing to accept as determinative evidence. [In] this article, I delve into the nature of the kind of evidence that should be the basis of a science of reading instruction.
Impact of Classroom-Based Fluency Instruction on Grade One Students in an Urban Elementary School by Tim Rasinski et al.
[S]tagnation in reading growth
leads to a probable conclusion that instructional factors that promote early reading development are
either missing or are receiving less-than-optimal emphases in many curricular reading programs.
A Meta-Analytic Review of Cognition and Reading Difficulties by Peng Peng et al.
RD are one of the frontier topics in educational research and practice. Tremendous efforts are being made in research and policy to understand the profiles of RD and to design more individualized remediation plans.
Reading Above the Fray: Print Concepts by Julia B. Lindsey
Knowledge about how print operates and how it holds meaning allows children…simple access to the wide world of written language.
