• Bogus Claims About Reading First - Volume 22 No. 3 - Spring 2008 - Rethinking Schools Online
  This article by Stephen Krashen discusses state, national and international test results that illustrate Reading First has had no effect on improving reading scores or closing the achievement gap.
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• Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers
  Review entire book online. Sara Kajder's demonstrates myriad ways to employ the technology interests and talents studens have outside the classroom into the classroom. See multiple examples of student work, demostrating how she adapts the curriculum to incorporate an expanded definition of literacy and literacy tools.
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual
  This manual by Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering enables educators to design and implement a comprehensive approach to teaching academic vocabulary as a district, a school or an individual classroom teacher. See sample chapter. Book includes review activities and games.
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• Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading
  This book by Steve Gardiner is recommended by ASCD, sample chapters are available.
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• Center on Instruction: English Language Learners
  Research-based materials on English Language Learning, research syntheses and exemplars of best practices. Currently available are materials on the topic of Reading: Grades K-3 for English Language Learners.
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• Content Reading Across Curriculum 6–-12
  In this videotape set, high school teacher Cris Tovani brings viewers into her school and classroom and shows how she and her colleagues are meeting the challenge of improving students' reading skills across the curriculum. The tapes include examples of Cris working with students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom, as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school.
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• Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop
  Nancy Akhavan provides "A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block. The key is folding content instruction into the literacy block—taking students beyond the learning of reading and writing strategies to applying those strategies to content learning."
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• Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4–12
  Preview fascinating first chapter online. Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension.
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• Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades K–6: :
  Gayle H. Gregory Adapted from the highly successful Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K–6, this book provides a wealth of grade-specific literacy strategies that not only increase student achievement but also increase it rapidly. The authors provide proven practical tools for differentiating instruction to meet language and individual learning styles. Teachers will find an instructional and assessment framework designed to promote critical competencies.
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• Education Week: ‘Reading First’ Research Offers No Definitive Answers
  Kennedy Manzo discusses the controversial findings of the Reading First Impact Study. "With the end of the six-year period of Reading First on the horizon, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing at a national level in bringing struggling readers to proficiency."
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• Educational Quizzes: Math, SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, Languages, Spanish, Science.
  Welcome to Quiz-Tree.com, the place where you will find educational quizzes on many subjects, including Elementary Math, Fractions, Spanish, Geography, SAT Verbal and Spelling. All quizzes feature animated interface, feedback sounds and other enhancements that make learning more enjoyable.
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• Elementary Web Sites for English Language Learners
  by Judie Haynes "Do you want to discover great web sites for the English language learners in your class? Here is a painless way to give students English language practice in the classroom or at home." This site links to ELL friendly readings, not specifically designed for ELLs but can be helpful.
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• ELLResearch Report: Read 180 Scholastic
  This resource summarizes the research on Read 180, an intervention program that incorporates whole group, individualized software, and small group activities for struggling readers.
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• English Language Learners (Adolescent students)
  Alliance for Excellent Education provides links related to the research on literacy for secondary ELLs and another for possible solutions.
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• English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
  This afticle by Beth Antunez provides recommendations and considerations for instruction of ELLs within each of the Reading First components. It should be kept in mind, however, that the Reading First components did not originate from studies including ELLs, and that despite research indicating a need for native language instruction, any discussion within the context of Reading First is about teaching ELLs to read in English.
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• English Language Learners: Reading
  Center of Instruction: Two PowerPoint Presentations 1)Highlighting Instruction in the Core Reading Program that Aligns with Research- Based Guidelines for Instruction for English Language Learners by Lupina Vela 2) Scientifically Based Reading Research and English Language Learners: The Big Picture by Sylvia Linan-Thompson, University of Texas at Austin
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• eSchool News online article about reading in high school,
  Article search for "Tech helps teach content reading skills". Substantial experience reading complex texts in high school is a key indicator of college success, according to a new report from the not-for-profit ACT. The report calls on schools to incorporate the reading of more complex texts to boost students' reading skills--a challenge that some schools already are meeting with the help of technology.
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• ESL Learners' Cognitive Reading Processes: A Review of Research in the US
  Jill Fitzgerald 1995 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill See related research on the same site.
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• Free Games To Improve Your Child's Reading and Math Skills!
  Award winning games proven to increase your child's readingand math skills! Great for pre-readers and readers who want to get better Over 250,000 families have used it! Proven results that will increase your child's performance in school!100% Spyware Free!
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