Is Reading Comprehension at Risk?
Is Reading Comprehension at Risk?
There is reason for concern that standardized testing may be diminishing the development of reading comprehension. In... Read more
21 May 2011
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What's Really Behind the Literacy Gap?
What's Really Behind the Literacy Gap?
The gap in reading skills between various ethnic, racial and economic groups persists. In fact large numbers of American... Read more
7 Apr 2011
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Rethinking Phonics for the 21st Century
Rethinking Phonics for the 21st Century
Phonics has been a controversial practice in the educational field for decades and opinion about the appropriate role of... Read more
22 Dec 2010
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Understanding Response to Intervention
Understanding Response to Intervention
Response to intervention (RTI) is a strategy to help educators identify students with learning disabilities as early as... Read more
2 Nov 2010
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New Standards for Reading Professionals What's New, Why it Matters
New Standards for Reading Professionals What's New, Why it Matters
Three years of effort has produced IRA's revised Standards for Reading Professionals. The first update since 2003, the... Read more
1 Oct 2010
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Inside Dolly Parton's Literacy Project
Inside Dolly Parton's Literacy Project
Dolly Parton's Literacy initiative is called the Imagination Library project. The program gives a book a month to over ... Read more
9 Jul 2010
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A Strategic Plan for Creating Strategic Readers
A Strategic Plan for Creating Strategic Readers
Our guest shares insights on the process of getting young children to embrace reading as part of a life time strategy fo... Read more
4 Jun 2010
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Why Boys Lag Girls In Reading- How To Close The Gap?
Why Boys Lag Girls In Reading- How To Close The Gap?
There is overwhelming evidence of a gender gap between boys and girls in reading. This is an accelerating international ... Read more
16 Apr 2010
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Next Practices in Preparing Very Young Children for Literacy
Next Practices in Preparing Very Young Children for Literacy
It's a new world out there requiring some new skills as well as many of the tried and tested fundamentals for developin... Read more
29 Mar 2010
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Literacy 2.0: Rethinking Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Digital Age
Literacy 2.0: Rethinking Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Digital Age
Peter Johnston makes a compelling case for the notion that the world has so fundamentally changed that the meaning of li... Read more
23 Feb 2010
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