Phonics
morphemes
Technology and early literacy
print awareness
structured literacy
early literacy tools
reading assessment OR literacy assessment
literacy instruction
reading intervention
reading and neuroscience
vocabulary building
mid 1960's -1970's: Whole Word Method
1980's: Whole Languauge Method
1990's - 2000's: Balanced Literacy - Guilded Reading, Levelled Texts, Cueing System
2020s: Science of Reading
International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy by
International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy evaluates the use and impact of digital devices for social interaction, language acquisition, and early literacy. It explores the role of interactive mediation as a tool for using digital media and provides empirical examples of best practice for digital media targeting language teaching and learning. The book brings together a range of international contributions and discusses the increasing trend of digitalization as an additional resource in early childhood literacy. It provides a broad insight into current research on the potential of digital media in inclusive settings by integrating multiple perspectives from different scientific fields: (psycho)linguistics, cognitive science, language didactics, developmental psychology, technology development, and human-machine interaction. Drawing on a large body of research, it shows that crucial early experiences in communication and social learning are the basis for later academic skills. The book is structured to display children's first developmental steps in learning in interaction with digital media and highlight various domains of early digital media use in family, kindergarten, and primary schools. This book will appeal to practitioners, academics, researchers, and students with an interest in early education, literacy education, digital education, the sociology of digital culture and social interaction, school reform, and teacher education.
Reading Success in the Primary Years by
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better support those students who struggle with reading. It provides an easily accessible overview of each step of the process involved in implementing this approach and highlights the crucial importance of collaboration between professionals involved in the teaching of reading within a school setting. It focuses on the decision-making processes used, such as rich dialogue with the leadership team and teachers, and shares participants' perspectives gathered throughout the project. Using case studies, the book describes how the 5-step approach assists in creating detailed profiles of students' strengths and weaknesses in spoken and written language skills that can be used to guide targeted intervention This book offers valuable insights for educators, speech pathologists, researchers, and pre-service teacher education students interested in the teaching of reading
Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning in Early Childhood by
Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children. In response, this volume provides a rich and provocative synthesis of theory, research, and practice that pushes beyond monomodal constructs of teaching and learning. It is a book about bringing "sense" to 21st century early childhood education, with "sense" as related to modalities (sight, hearing), and "sense" in terms of making meaning. It reveals how multimodal perspectives emphasize the creative, transformative process of learning by broadening the modes for understanding and by encouraging critical analysis, problem solving, and decision-making. The volume's explicit focus on children's visual texts ("art") facilitates understanding of multimodal approaches to language, literacy, and learning. Authentic examples feature diverse contexts, including classrooms, homes, museums, and intergenerational spaces, and illustrate children's "sense-making" of lifeexperiences such as birth, identity, environmental phenomena, immigration, social justice, and homelessness. This timely book provokes readers to examine understandings of language, literacy, and learning through a multimodal lens; provides a starting point for constructing broader, multimodal views of what it might mean to "make meaning;" and underscores the production and interpretation of visual texts as meaning making processes that are especially critical to early childhood education in the 21st century.
180 Days of Printing Beginning by
Build students' printing skills with fun, daily practice activities! This research-based book offers quick and effective writing activities for prekindergarten and kindergarten students. Developed to motivate and excite students, these learning activities focus on writing letters, numbers, and sentences to boost students' confidence when writing. Great for homeschool or learning in classrooms, this workbook is the perfect tool to reinforce learning, prevent learning loss, and develop basic handwriting skills.
Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Literacy by
A collection of 150 unique games and activities to help support teaching literacy in the primary classroom. Designed with busy teachers in mind, the Classroom Gems series draws together an extensive selection of practical, tried-and-tested, off-the-shelf ideas, games and activities guaranteed to transform any lesson or classroom in an instant. Easily navigable, allowing you to choose the right activity quickly and easily, these invaluable resources are guaranteed to save you time and are a must-have tool to plan, prepare and deliver first-rate lessons.
Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness by
Interact with language in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides over 80 early childhood activities that focus on engaging with the sounds of language. From singing songs to participating in role-playing games, children will have fun and develop important language skills. Children will gain quality speech and listening practice while learning about individual words, syllables, rhymes, phonemes, and graphemes. The book also contains helpful teacher and family resources and tools to support diverse learners. Build phonological awareness for pre-K through first grade students with this exciting product!
Rebuilding the Foundation by
Teaching reading is a complex task without a simple formula for developing quality instruction. Engage in a deeper and more thoughtful conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. Reconsider the full reading curriculum--the principles of effective instruction, student motivation, materials, developing curricula at the primary level and beyond, teaching various aspects of reading, assessment, and teacher professional development. Examine how reading instruction is conceptualized and what must be done to make it work for all students.
Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3 by
What does research tell us about how teachers can most effectively help young students learn to read? In Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3, Sharon Vaughn and Sylvia Linan-Thompson explore the research on reading, providing a comprehensive overview of the five core instructional areas and how each affects student achievement: Phonemic awareness. Phonics and Word Study. Fluency. Vocabulary. Comprehension. The authors include dozens of reading activities and lesson plans that teachers can use immediately, all of which have worked in actual classrooms and are grounded in solid research. A glossary and annotated resource lists will help you better understand key reading concepts and find reliable resources, including relevant Web sites. Whether your students have special needs or show no apparent learning difficulties, this book will expand your repertoire of teaching strategies and help you put students on the road to literacy.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by
With more than one million copies sold, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a remarkable step-by-step, phonics-based program that teaches your child to read in just twenty minutes a day--with love, care, and joy a parent and child can share. Now fully revised and updated with a Practice Guide for parents and an extra section with supplementary material! "[A] magical book...I've seen this method work in my own home, having used it with both of my children and watched that light go on." --John McWhorter, The New York Times "Countless parents have told me they used this book to teach their child how to read when their child wasn't being taught in school." --Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of the APM podcast, Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong Is your four-year-old or even three-year-old child expressing interest in reading, constantly pretending to read, and asking questions while you are reading? Do you want to develop a young reader but are unsure of how to do it? Is your child halfway through kindergarten and unable to read simple words without memorizing or guessing? Do you want to teach your child to read using the most research-supported method with a long record of success? Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is an adaptation of the most successful beginning reading program written for schools. More than 100 formal studies using the highest-quality research methods have documented the superiority of the Direct Instruction approach to phonics and other essential beginning reading skills. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, sensible, easy-to-follow, step-by-step program that shows simply and clearly how to teach children to read. In 100 lessons, color-coded for clarity and ease of delivery, you can give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to be a good reader--at about a second-grade level. Twenty minutes a day is all your child needs to become an independent reader in 100 lessons. It's an enjoyable way to help your child gain the vital skills of reading. Everything you need is here for you and your child to learn together. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child a sense of accomplishment and confidence while giving your child the reading skills needed now for a better chance at tomorrow. Training videos and additional supplementary material are available for free at StartReading.com.
Armes, C. (2022, April 11). The science of reading: The basics and beyond. The Science of Learning Blog. www.scilearn.com/the-science-of-reading-the-basics-and-beyond/
Hruby, G. G., Goswami, U., Frederiksen, C. H., & Perfetti, C. A. (2011). Neuroscience and reading: A review for reading education researchers. Reading Research Quarterly, 46(2), 156–172. LINK
Currently with 15,155 titles, this e-book collection supports a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all subject areas taught in elementary and middle schools. It’s an effective way to provide educators with full-text e-books to support their curricula.
Education literature and resources from the Education Resource Information Center. Direct link to the government site. For Open-Access resources, choose Full text available on ERIC.
Designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and more
Specifically for elementary school users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction.
Full text elementary school magazines with reading level indicators (Lexiles). Full text information dates as far back as 1990. Recommended for elementary school research.
Offers adapted reading material for a variety of subjects; customized articles and practice quizzes support ELL success and promote reading comprehension across a variety of school subjects and life skill areas; also offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills
For teachers and future educators, find author programs, book guides, readings, and other multimedia resources for your classroom reading activities; brought to you by the Indiana State Library.
