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Beginning Reading
For many children, learning to read is neither natural nor easy. The teaching of beginning reading is of supreme ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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The Relationship of Top-Down Reading Theories to Whole-Word Reading Instruction
In the mid-1880s, a German researcher at the University of Leipzig named James M. Cattell published a paper titled ...
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What We Know About How Good Readers Read Words
We know a great deal more about how word recognition occurs than can be explained in this article. The theory that ...
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The Great Debate: Code-Emphasis vs. Meaning-Emphasis Programs
Controversy surrounds the beginning reading stage. The intense "debates," even "wars," of the last ...
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Reading Help for Struggling Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners: Wholes and Patterns
Most young gifted children, whatever their major learning style, have a burning desire to learn to read. Quite often, ...
Source: Visual Spatial Resource Center
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Reading Instruction Checklist
Your school's reading program should include the five essential components of reading instruction that research has ...
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First Grade Sight Words List
Sight words are words that appear frequently in most of the text kids read, but can't easily be sounded out. Here's a ...
Source: Education.com
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Tests and Reading: A Narrower View
Reading scores cannot be taken at face value, since there are many different areas of reading skills, and a child might ...
Source: Education.com
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Kindergarten Sight Words List
This list contains the most common kindergarten sight words. Although kids won't need to be able to read these sight ...
Source: Education.com
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Sight Words
Let’s start with sight words because they tend to create a good starting place for youngsters’ reading. The ...
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100 High-Frequency Words for Older Students
This table presents a list of 100 common words that fourth- through eighth-grade students need to learn. Some of the ...
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The National Reading Panel (NRP) Report (2000)
The NRP was convened in 1997 in response to a congressional directive to review the scientific literature and determine ...
Additional Content
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Defining and Assessing Sight Vocabulary
Any word can be a sight word for an individual student. Those words that she can say instantly, without applying any...
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Word Checkers; An Exercise to Develop Word Recognition
Purpose: To provide practice in word recognition or phonic sounds Materials: Checkerboard Small squares of paper...
