Resources for Reading First

A. Background

What is Reading First?

Introduction to Reading First Powerpoint

North Carolina Template for LEA and School-Level RF Grants

Presentations of The Education Trust (Data on Achievement Gap.  Discussions of No Child Left Behind)

a.  Don't Turn Back the Clock

b.  African American Achievement in America

c.  Latino Achievement in America

d.  No Child Left Behind

e.  High Poverty Schools Can Excel

The Seven Essential Elements of Intensive Reading Instructional Support

Model of Reading First Components: Five Main Skills, Three-Tired Curricula, Five Assessments

Beginning Reading Big Ideas

Inventory of Cognitive and Practical Knowledge for Teaching Reading (You can use this to plan professional development and coach teachers.) 

Rigorous Evidence for Making Decisions

What Research Says

Research and Reason

A Policy Maker's Primer On Educational Research (Basic Statistics. VERY NICE!)

B. Conception of Reading Based on Research:
The Five Basic Skills and Methods for Teaching Them

School-wide Reading Model

Using Science, Leadership, and Common Sense to Reduce the Number of Children Left Behind in Reading: Reading First (slides)--Torgesen)

Reading for Administrators

Preventing Reading Problems--Foorman et al.

Reading is Rocket Science

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading.  The Major Source.  Identification of the big five reading skills; research reviews; methods of instruction. 

Phonics and Word Recognition Instruction (Chard and Osborn)

Florida Center for Reading Research (See especially 'The science of reading")

Put Reading First

A Child Becomes a Reader

Research on Reading (slides)--AFT

National Institute for Literacy Partnership for Reading.  Large literature reviews and position papers.

National Reading Panel: Free "Report of the National Reading Panel:  Teaching Children to Read."

National Institute for Literacy 

How Does Phonemic Awareness Contribute Directly to the Development of Reading Fluency?  (Powerpoint presentation by Dr. Joe Torgesen, Florida State University

 C. Curricula and Materials to Serve All Children: Core, Supplementary, and Intervention

Three-tier Reading Model (Wanzek & Rodriguez)


Three-tier Reading Model Materials

Three-tier Reading Model (Sharon Vaughn)

Tier Three Intervention Programs

Supplementary Instruction (University of Texas)

Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers (University of Texas)

Instructional Decision Making for Ensuring Appropriate Instruction (University of Texas)

Resources Relevant to Three-tiered Curriculum From Florida Center for Reading Research

Aligning Core Curricula with Supplementary and Intervention Materials

Intervention Programs to Grade 4

Remedial and Intervention Programs Grades 4 and Up

Supplemental and Intervention Programs

Evaluating a Core Reading Program. (Essential!)


And See

http://reading.uoregon.edu/appendices/con_guide.php

Review of Reading Programs and Materials (Florida)

Summary Table of Review of Programs and Materials (Florida)

Review of Comprehensive Reading Programs (Oregon)

Educational Curricula That Work

SRA/McGraw-Hill.  Publisher of Open Court, Reading Mastery, Corrective Reading

Voyager (Contains Core, Supplementary, and Intervention Curricula)

Scott Foresman.  Early Reading Intervention

Reading First Proposals for All States (So Far) [Excellent Resources on Curricula, Assessment, Professional Development]

D. Assessment: K-3, the Five Big Reading Skills, Four Functions
(Screening, Diagnostic, Progress Monitoring, Outcome)

Instruments for Assessing Reading:  From Reading First, Prepared by Edward J. Keme'enui: (Every School Administrator and Teacher Should Know These)

See "Executive Summary," "Results of Analysis," and "Developing a Framework for Reading First Implementations."

See the whole website.  Evaluation of 29 instruments k-3 regarding phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, for use in screening, diagnostics, progress monitoring, and evaluating outcomes of reading instruction.
(http://idea.uoregon.edu/assessment/analysis_results/assess_results_by_test.html)

DIBELS: "The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills."

Assessment Resources from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI)
a. http://www.txreadinginstruments.com/pdf/TPRI_brochure.pdf


b. http://tpri.org/Teacher%5FInformation/how_to_use_results.asp  [Slides]

c.  http://tpri.org/Teacher%5FInformation/reading_concepts.asp

d.  http://tpri.org/Teacher%5FInformation/teachers_guide.asp

School-based Reading Assessment--Hempenstall

Iowa Tests of Basic Skills

a.  http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/ITBS___TAP/itbs___tap.html


b.  http://www.riverpub.com/products/group/itbs_a/home.html

c.  http://www.agsnet.com/testprep/itbs_index.asp

d.  http://www.uiowa.edu/~itp/index.html

E.  School-wide Implementation

School-wide Model (Click "Next" and use page two figure as a guide.)

Professional Development Workshop (University of Texas)

Planning and Evaluating School-wide Reading Programs (See Page 10 Table.  Print it and use as a guide.)

Planning and Evaluation Tool 

Reading First Proposals for All States (So Far) [Excellent Resources on Curricula, Assessment, Professional Development]

Texas Reading.  On-line reading academies and terrific publications

Assessing Teacher Performance
a. Fidelity of Implementation