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The Dr. Seuss Story Maker lets children create their own Dr. Seuss story. |
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Reading
Comprehension — Research Informs Us
Here's what you need to know to help your child build the skills she needs to understand what she reads. |
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NEW! When
Kids Hate to Read Would your child rather take out the trash than pick up a book? Dr. Marie Carbo, founder and executive director of the National Reading Styles Institute, says children's emotions about reading have a huge impact on whether or not they'll become lifelong readers. In this interview from the Family Education Network, Dr. Carbo answered the following questions about how you can encourage reading at home. |
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NEW! What
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The Lexile Framework for Reading is an approach to reading measurement that matches students to appropriately challenging reading materials. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows families and teachers to encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services. |
| Reading Development Brochure | This brochure was designed to help parents better understand what their children will be learning in the area of reading and writing during the kindergarten year. It includes "typical" benchmarks for Kindergarten reading and writing, as well as ideas to support leartrning at home, and suggestions for staying connected with the school. |
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Safety Net for At-Risk Readers Screen. Teach. Intervene. Monitor. Adjust. These are the basic components of Response to Intervention (RTI) - a proactive process designed to catch struggling readers before they fall. Research-based instruction, top-notch teachers, and solid home-school collaboration are at the heart of a successful RTI program. Learn more in this RTI primer for parents from the National Association of School Psychologists and in this overview on RTI and reading from the International Dyslexia Association. |
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Mission: The RTLP is a unique, forward thinking coalition of public and private sector professionals dedicated to leveraging federal funds with for-profit and not-for-profit resources to creates highly engaging media products and sustainable outreach services fun and educational television shows, toys, and other products designed to develop young children's emergent literacy pre-reading and reading skills. with a primary emphasis We have a special interest in serving on the needs of children from low income families. |
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WAYS TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH National Poetry Month was established, every April since 1996, by the Academy of American Poets as a month-long, national celebration of poetry. The concept was to increase the attention paid -- by individuals and the media -- to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our poetic heritage, and to poetry books and magazines. The goal is to achieve an increase in the visibility, presence, and accessibility of poetry in our culture. National Poetry Month has been successful beyond all anticipation and has grown over the years into the largest literary celebration in the world. Click below to find a cornucopia of ways to celebrate life and learning through poetry. |
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In
1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the
children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster
a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and
their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and
to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure
that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s
income. Read More... Enroll... |
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National
Institute for Literacy The National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency, provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults. In consultation with the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services, the Institute serves as a national resource on current, comprehensive literacy research, practice, and policy. Read More... |
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From
Cradle to Career: Quality Counts 2007 Each year, Education Week releases its "Quality Counts" report. This year's report is expanded, and includes a look at how well states are doing in helping students make successful transitions from preschool to elementary school, and from high school to college. This web-based report includes several compelling charts and graphs, as well as commentary from experts. Go to report > |
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New
Report: Whole Language High-Jinks Louisa Moats authored a new report funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation that takes a hard look at reading programs that market themselves as being based on Scientifically Based Reading Research (SBRR). The report examines Reading Recovery, Four Blocks, Guided Reading, and programs that use a generic "balanced literacy" description. It also includes a comparison of two major approaches to reading instruction (SBRR and Whole Language Derivatives). Go to report |
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Tips
for Encouraging Kids to Read We asked the parents and teachers who frequent our web site for their ideas about how to encourage kids, especially those who aren't excited about books, to do more reading. Thanks to all you tip-sters out there, we received tons of advice, which we've summarized in the seven tips. http://www.readingrockets.org/article/194 |
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Family
Literacy Tips: From A to Z Encourage literacy in your home and community. Here are some great tips to start everyone on the road to reading. http://www.readingrockets.org/article/47 |
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Big
Blue Software Tutors for Literacy. TechWeb News. People who are learning
to read can now get a little extra help from IBM's interactive web-based
Reading Companion. The new software uses innovative speech-recognition
technology to listen and provide tailored feedback. It incorporates
an online reading tutor that analyzes each student's pronunciation
and reading skills to help teachers assess performance and recommend
improvements. http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/188500384 |
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Mail
Mania, Inc., was founded in June, 1998, and is a company dedicated
to creating and distributing a free online school-to-home reading
program, which assists schools in motivating elementary school children
to become strong readers. By working together, all children can become
strong readers! http://www.letterpals.com |
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Tips
for Shifting from School Year to Summer Break http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=841&g=2 |
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StudyDog
is a complete and entirely free Early Reading program downloaded over
the Internet to a computer in your home or classroom. The StudyDog
Reading Program has been implemented with children enrolled in Kindergarten
through second-grade in seventeen public schools. http://www.studydog.com/ |
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Sign up for the Get Ready to Read! Newsletter. The quarterly newsletter
offers partner and program features, plus early literacy news, activities
and online resources for parents and early childhood professionals. http://getreadytoread.org/newsletter.php?PHPSESSID=9774b2a8aeef0c9b9076ae73bf1664d0 |
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Find
advice on every aspect of education and learning, discover parent-approved
entertainment ideas, and learn how to handle the many life issues
of your third through fifth grader. http://familyeducation.com/age/0,3598,2,00.html |
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GPN
produces original, award-winning materials (Reading Rainbow®,
Know It All, and MathVantage™;) and distributes materials from
many of the nation’s finest producers, including Children’s
Television Workshop (producers of Sesame Street®, 3-2-1 Classroom
Contact®, and Ghostwriter™;), Lancit Media Entertainment,
Ltd. (producers of The Puzzle Place™; and Backyard Safari™;),
and Family Communications, Inc. (producers of Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood® and Different and the Same™;). Reading Rainbow knows how important teaching to the standards has become for most school districts. We are currently working to match each of the 143 Reading Rainbow episodes to the National Standards. Within the year we are planning to have all episodes completed and available right here. We are currently working with a software company to provide you with your states teaching standards and hope to have that available online as well. http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/product_index_standards.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1 |
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You
can make bookmarks yourself... http://www.myhomelibrary.org/bookmarks.html |
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The
W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission
is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Its founder
W.K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation
in 1930. |
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Dial-a-Story
Storytime...Anytime (816) 701-3456 Folktales, fairy tales and children's literature come alive with a phone call, anytime day or night. Call (816) 701-3456 and listen to a 3-5 minute story read by librarians, professionals, neighbors and friends. Stories are suitable for children ages 3 to 103! Dial-a-Story is free and stories change weekly. http://www.kclibrary.org/guides/children/index.cfm?article=read&articleID=107 |
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While this site is about reading -- it focuses on teens. http://www.bpl.org/teens/index.htm |
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Reading
With Your Child: 9 Ways To Get Results You can have a powerful influence on your child when you spend time reading with him. Start here to learn how to make the most of this special time with your child. http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ks/44/improve http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ks/232/improve |
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Reading
lists provided by Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) and the American
Library Association (ALA) for you and your young reader. http://www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN/ReadingLists.html |
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Archived Information from the US Department of Education The America Reads Challenge has several tools to help children exercise their minds during the summer months. http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/summer.html |
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This
is a great site for those kids who love words! It is the Merriam-Webster
dictionary site. It has a place for kids to look up words. You can
subscribe to a "word of the day" where the kids can hear
the word, find out how to use it and ifnd out where it's origin is.
http://www.wordcentral.com/ |
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This site is
a great place for emergent or beginning readers. It helps students
learn how to chunk words, segment and blend letters to read shorter
words. The books are short and decodable. Interactive games are included
after reading the book to practice and reinforce the shrot vowel words.
(Need to have speakers available for full effect). http://www.starfall.com/ |
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This website
aides student in strengthening their reading comprehension or understanding
of the book by offering short quizzes. Students can earn points and
redeem them for prizes. It also helps children choose appropriate
books based on individual interests and reading abilities. http://www.bookadventure.org/ |
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The International
Reading Association is a professional membership organization dedicated
to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality
of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about
reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. http://www.reading.org/ http://www.reading.org/links/edu_tp.html |
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For students,
summer is a time for fun and play. It is also the time when children’s
learning slides. Research (Brace, 2002a) shows that during the summer
students forget many of the reading and math skills learned during
the school year. These activities are being distributed on a pilot
basis as part of our ongoing effort to help teachers teach and children
learn. Activities are aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework,
Michigan Literacy Progress Profile and the No Child Left Behind Act. http://www.michigan.gov/printerFriendly/0,1687,7-140--69358--,00.html |
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Recognizing
that literacy is the cornerstone of a child’s intellectual,
personal and cultural growth, Scholastic, for more than 83 years,
has created quality products and services that educate, entertain
and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding
of the world around them. http://www.scholastic.com/ |
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This
site offers valuable information from the ERIC Clearninghouse on reading
information that families can use to promote children's reading success.
www.indiana.edu/%7Eeric_rec/www/indexfr.html |
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This link takes
you to the official DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy
Skills) site, developed by the University of Oregon. DIBELS are a
set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy
development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures
used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early
reading skills.The measures assess student development of phonological
awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity and fluency
with the code. Each measure has been thoroughly researched and demonstrated
to be reliable and valid indicators of early literacy development
and predictive of later reading proficiency to aid in the early identification
of students who are not progressing as expected. When used as recommended,
the results can be used to evaluate individual student development
as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated instructional
objectives.There is no charge for downloading and using the DIBELS
measures. We offer DIBELS training in our regional workshops (see the regional workshop brochure) http://dibels.uoregon.edu |
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This is a new
website that focuses entirely on reading instruction, published by
the Partnership for Reading under the US Dept of Education. www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html The Partnership for Reading is a national reading research dissemination project authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). The Partnership for Reading's mission is to make scientifically-based reading research more accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, and other interested individuals. The Partnership for Reading efforts include a diverse set of public awareness, professional development, and program replication activities. The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) is responsible for carrying out this effort and uses existing information dissemination networks when possible. http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading |
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This
site contains good reading information for beginning readers as well
as children who have mastered reading. www.readingrockets.org/home.php http://www.readingrockets.org/pdf/family_guide.pdf Reading Rockets News Reading Rockets offers a free monthly newsletter! Here you'll find information for parents and educators about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. To subscribe, click below. http://pbsmail.org/weta_learning/join.html?r=cdztuRY1vB7mE Reading Rockets is pleased to offer the new print guides for parents and teachers. Each is filled with practical information on helping kids learn to read at home or at school. http://www.readingrockets.org/guides.php Parents Can Have Huge Impact on Their Child's Learning The Arizona Republic Children whose parents are active in their education, regardless of their income or background, learn to read faster and do better in school when parents help them learn at home, partner with teachers, and volunteer at school. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1226reading26.html |
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There are many
activities and projects that families can do together. Here are some
low-cost, or no-cost, fun projects that involve children with their
families from the National PTA website. www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/helpchild/hc_pf_family_learning_1.asp |
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The following
lists were compiled from an online survey that the NEA ran on their
website during the spring of 1999. Parents and teachers alike will
find them extremely useful in selecting quality literature for children.
Teacher's Top 100 Books for Children www.nea.org/readacross/resources/catalist.html Kid's Top 100 Books www.nea.org/readacross/resources/kidsbooks.html Asian-American Booklist www.nea.org/readacross/resources/aabooks.html Bilingual Booklist/ Recomendada Lectura http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/bilingualbooks.html 50 multicultural books every child should know http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/50multibooks.html |
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Colorín
Colorado Information, activities, and advice for Spanish-speaking parents http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/index.html Here are ten ways teachers, librarians, community members, and others can use the Colorín Colorado website to provide information to parents on helping children learn to read. www.colorincolorado.org/educators/tenways.html |
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This
website hosted by the University of Indiana is packed with resources
to provide educational materials and services to parents who take
an active role in their children's education! http://reading.indiana.edu/www/indexfr.html |
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Ten tips to help
children become confident readers. http://www.learningfirst.org/lfa-web/rp?pa=doc&docId=51 |
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Literacy Tips
for the 10-minute parent. PBS Kids has many vocabulary-building features
on their web site including the Word Helper and Watson's Word Walls.
http://pbskids.org/lions/tips/teach-words.html |
| EnchantedLearning.com | This is a site
for children's books that you can make! http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/ |
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Reading Is Fundamental,
Inc. prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books
and literacy resources to those children and families who need them
most. Founded in 1966, RIF is the oldest and largest children's and
family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. RIF programs
annually serve 5.1 million children of all ages, most of whom are
at risk of educational failure, with a focus on those from birth to
age 11. http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ |
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A webpage on
supporting father involvement in literacy for children. http://www.thinkmhc.org/Literacy/supportfathers.htm This is a PDF list of quality children's picutre books that feature fathers in the stories. http://www.thinkmhc.org/Literacy/fatherlist.PDF Tips for Reading with your Children -- it is available in about 8 langauges! http://www.thinkmhc.org/Literacy/tips/English.pdf |
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This is an archived
publication from the US Department of Education on reading and writing
activities with your child. http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/index.html |