RESOURCES
Helping All Students Achieve Reading Success
Reading Should Remain Education's Top Goal and Priority!
I want all children to get the absolute best reading instruction available. However, that is not always possible, for a variety of reasons. I am so grateful for wonderful parents and guardians who want to help their children succeed in reading. If people can learn to read well in first grade, they will have the best chance of being a successful student through high school and beyond.
What Does the Research Say?
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The best reading research information we have today about how children learn to read is found in the 2000 Report of the National Reading Panel (NRP), a panel put together of the best reading researchers in our country. I found the following quote in the NRP report to be helpful: The National Reading Panel has found that "an extensive knowledge base now exists to show us the skills children must learn in order to read well" and has identified methods in reading instruction that consistently relate to reading success (See the NRP publication linked below for more in-depth coverage). These methods have not changed!
We know so much about how children learn to read from the findings of the best evidence-based reading research available that the National Reading Panel (NRP) kindly sifted through for us. This solid research is founded on the scientific principles of replication and peer-review. The wording of the research is not always easy to read and understand so I also added booklets below that were prepared for parents and teachers by the NRP and the National Institute for Literacy (NIL) to help us understand the implications of the research better. I have also included additional helpful information and resources to help you help your child become a happy, confident and successful reader. This is not an exhaustive list and I hope to continue to add information for parents here. |
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL READING PANEL (NRP)- Teaching Children to read
- This report is "an evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications reading instruction" and consists of the findings of National Reading Panel to "assess the status of research-based knowledge, including the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching children to read." I absolutely love this report and wish that many more of our teachers understood and implemented its findings more in-depth in their classrooms.
- Report of the National Reading Panel (Teaching Children to Read): An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction - The Big Five: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Text Comprehension (see more information below)
- Parent Guide (Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read)
- Teacher Guide (Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read)
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY
- A Child Becomes a Reader - PROVEN IDEAS FROM RESEARCH FOR PARENTS Birth Through Preschool
- A Child Becomes a Reader - PROVEN IDEAS FROM RESEARCH FOR PARENTS - KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 3
- Shining Stars Toddlers Get Ready to Read
- Shining Stars Preschoolers Learn to Read
- Shining Stars Kindergartners Learn to Read
- Shining Stars First Graders Learn to Read
- Shining Stars Second & Third Graders Learn to Read
THE BIG FIVE - books and more information and research about these are coming soon
- Phonemic Awareness
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- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Text Comprehension