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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:

Bridges to Literacy: Early Routines that Promote Later School Success
0-3 years
The Role of Fathers in Their Child’s Literacy Development
Pre-K
Early Literacy Learning can be promoted through Experiences with Print and Language
0-5 years
Understanding Early Literacy
0-5 years
Father’s Role in Children’s Academic Achievement and Early Literacy
0-5 years
Teaching Our Youngest
0-6 years
new Voice of Literacy (podcast)
0-8 years
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
0-8 years
Toddling Toward Reading (video)
0-8 years
Early Literacy Instruction: Research Applications in the Classroom
0-8 years
Podcasts for Dads
0-8 years
Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
0-8 years
What Works: An Introductory Teacher Guide for Early Language and Emergent Literacy Instruction
0-8 years
Cultivating Readers: Making Reading Active and Fun
0-8 years
Reading Milestones: Toddlers
2-3 years
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
2-5 years
Early Reading and Scientifically-Based Research
2-6 years
Literacy Milestones
3-4 years
Reading Milestones: Preschoolers
3-4 years
Early Literacy: Policy and Practice in the Preschool Years
3-5 years
Phonological Awareness: Developmental Continuum (video)
3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training
3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Shared Book Reading
3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Interactive Shared Book Reading
3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Dialogic Reading
3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Using Interactive and Dialogic Reading
3-5 years
Emergent Literacy for Preschool Instructors (podcasts)
3-5 years
Overcoming the Knowledge Gap: The Case for Content-rich Instruction
3-6 years
Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension
3-8 years
Phonics Through Shared Reading (podcast)
3-8 years
A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Accomplishments and Student Behaviors
3-8 years
Early Literacy Guidance, prekindergarten - grade 3 (New York)
3-8 years
Early Reading Information
3-9 years
International Reading Association Insights on Teaching Reading (podcasts)
3-18 years
The Concurrent Development of Phonological Awareness, Word Recognition and Spelling
4-6 years
Early Literacy, A Resource For Teachers
4-8 years
Literacy Milestones
5 years
Reading Milestones: Kindergarteners
5-6 years
The Role of Fathers in Their Child’s Literacy Development
5-8 years
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
5-8 years
Every Child a Reader: Applying Reading Research in the Classroom
5-8 years
Components of Effective, Research-Supported Reading Instruction
5-9 years
Differentiated Instruction for Reading
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
What Makes Differentiate Instruction Successful?
5-10 years
Strategic Literacy Instruction (podcasts)
5-12 years
Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading
5-13 years
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Reading
5-14 years
Literacy Milestones
6 years
The Four Blocks Literacy Model
6-8 years
Early Reading Assessment: A Guiding Tool for Instruction
6-8 years
Comprehension Instruction in the Primary Grades
6-11 years
Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from two Student Cohorts
6-15 years
Developing Fluency (video)
7-10 years
Cognitive Strategy Instruction: Reading
8-18 years

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Activities

Age Level:

Practice Guides Especially for Practioners
0-5 years
Cultivating Readers: Making Reading Active and Fun!
0-5 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
Webbing Into Literacy
2-6 years
Ideas to Support Literacy Development at Home
2-7 years
Poems, Rhymes, Raps, Fingerplays and Chants
2-18 years
Gus and Inky’s Underwater Adventures
3-5 years
Gus and Inky’s Wild Word Round-up
3-5 years
One Letter Books
3-6 years
Getting Ready to Read and Write in Child Care
3-6 years
Nine Great Times to Read in Child Care Settings
3-6 years
A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy
3-7 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
The Literacy Center
3-8 years
Sesame Street
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
Guy’s Read
3-11 years
Inkless Tales
3-11 years
Learning the Alphabet: Interactive Game
4-6 years
Early Childhood Reading Strategies (video)
4-6 years
Free Reading Lesson: Counting Words in a Sentence (video)
4-6 years
Pocket Chart Ideas for Preschool and Kindergarten and First Grades
4-7 years
Starfall Learning to Read online games
4-7 years
Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybook
4-8 years
The Little Animals Activity Centre
4-8 years
Fun Reading Tips and Activities
4- 8 years
Chateau Meddybemps
4-12 years
Funbrain
4-16 years
Pounce the Word matching Game
5-6 years
What’s the Word
5-6 years
Building Sentence Puzzles
5-7 years
Literacy Zone: Interactive Games
5-7 years
Learning to Read: Interactive books
5-7 years
Free-Reading Lessons: Sounding Out Accuracy (video)
5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Egg Carton Game (video)
5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Introducing Onset-Rime Blending (video)
5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words (video)
5-7 years
Bembo’s ABC Zoo
5-8 years
Green Town Elementary School Theme Units
5-8 years
Rebus Rhymes
5-8 years
Literacy Guidance for Parents in Multiple Languages
5-8 years
A Compact for Reading: School – Home Links
5-9 years
Read Along Stories and Songs
5-8 years
Words and Pictures
5-10 years
Literacy Activities for Grades K-5th
5-10 years
Graphic Organizer Templates
5-10 years
Guided Reading Helps
5-10 years
Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction
5-10 years
Bitesize English
5-10 years
Helping Children Read to Learn
5-12 years
Internet Public Library Reading Zone
5-12 years
Read, Write, Think: Lesson Plan Index
5-13 years
10 Options for Reading Outside the Book
5-13 years
Read, Write, Think Literacy Activities
5-18 years
It’s Fun to Read
6-8 years
Free Reading Lessons: Introduce Word Families (video)
6-8 years
Wall of Words
6-10 years
Calculating Reading and writing Levels
6-10 years
Increasing Motivation: Reading Tips from Kids
6-12 years
Finding Inspiration In Literature & Movies: Curriculua for Movie to Promote literacy, learning and service
6-18 years
Activities for Reading and Writing Fun: Grades Three through Six
8-12 years
Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probes
8-12 years
20 ways for parents to encourage reading
9-12 years

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Special Needs

Age Level:

Scaling-up early Childhood Intervention Literacy Learning Practices
0-5 years
Adapting and Protecting Early Childhood Books
0-5 years
Resources in Spanish
0-5 years
Second Language Literacy Instruction Position Statement of the International Reading Association
0-8 years
Tactile Symbols
0-8 years
Creating Object Books for Tactile Learners
0-8 years
What Does It Mean To Use Visual Supports for Literacy?
0-8 years
Assistive Technology Supports for Early Childhood Literacy
2-6 years
Computer Supported Literacy Project: Preschool Emergent Literacy Classroom
2-6 years
Visual Supports for Literacy (video)
2-8 years
Supporting Emergent Literacy in Children with Special Needs
3-5 years
Relative Effectiveness of Dialogic, Interactive and Shared Reading Interventions
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
new Reading, Down Syndrome and predictors of differential Growth (podcast)
3-8 years
Predictors of and Interventions Associated with Later Literacy Accomplishments
3-8 years
Parameters of Literacy for Children with Developmental Disabilities
3-8 years
Get Ready to Read!
3-8 years
Emergent Literacy of Deaf Children
3-8 years
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Literacy: What you Should Know (video)
3-8 years
Do you See What I Mean? Creating Visual Literacy Supports for Students with Special Needs
3-8 years
A Guide to Assistive Technology to Support Literacy Learners with Disabilities
3-18 years
An Introduction to Reading Acquisition
4-12 years
new Reading and Language Outcomes of a Five-Year Randomized Evaluation of Transitional Bilingual Education
5-10 years
Teaching Literacy in English to K- 5 English Learners
5-10 years
Braille Word Games
5-13 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
Literacy Development for AAC Users
3-18 years
Automatic Speech for PowerPoint Presentations
3 to adult
No Half  Measures: Reading Instruction for Young Second Language Learners
4-8 years
Tell Me About the Story: Comprehension Strategies for Students with Autism
4-10 years
Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader: 8 Steps for Parents
5-8 years
Extensive Reading Interventions in K-3
5-8 years
Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader: 7 Steps for Teachers
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
Other Sources of Reading Difficulty
5-8 years
How to Adapt Your Teaching Strategies to Student Needs
5-8 years
Supporting the Literacy Development of Students with Autism
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
Using Technology to Improve the Literacy Skills of Students with Disabilities
5-10 years
Effective English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
5-11 years
Assisting Students Struggling with Reading
5-11 years
Cornerstones: Building Blocks of Literacy
5-11 years
Retelling Stories for Students who are English Language Learners (video)
5-11 years
Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners: A Best-Evidence Synthesis
5-12 years
Reading Instruction for English Language Learners
5-12 years
Implications for Reading Teachers in Response to Intervention (RTI)
5-12 years
Classroom Reading Instruction that Supports Struggling Readers
5-12 years
Dyslexia and the Brain: What does Current Research Tell Us?
5-12 years
Summary Table for Supplemental Intervention Reading Programs and Comprehensive Intervention Reading Programs
5-17 years
Classroom Interventions for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries
5-18 years
Hooking Struggling Readers: Using Books They Can and Want to Read
7-12 years
Assessment of English Language Learners (video)
5-12 years
Braille Bug
5-13 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
Effectiveness of a Spanish Intervention and an English Intervention for English-Language Learners at Risk for Reading Problems
6-7 years
Word Families Can Help Struggling Readers
6-10 years
Effective Reading Instruction for Struggling Spanish-Speaking Readers: A Combination of Two Literatures
6-10 years
Strategies for Summer Reading for Children with Dyslexia
6-13 years
Improving Comprehension for Students with LD
8 years & up
How Parents Can Help Older Kids With Reading Problems
12-17 years