Information on Scientifically Based Reading Practices (Free downloads)

Look to these sites for general information to read (or possible use as a book study) about any of the five components, intervention instruction, or other research based reading topics.

National Reading First newsletter, published three times each year.

 

Order or download copies of Put Reading First and other publications.

 

Summary of the Five Components of Reading. This is the "blue and white booklet" that is similar to Put Reading First, but also provides examples of classroom instruction.

 

The Pacific Regional Education Laboratory has a lot of valuable downloads. Assessing Reading Fluency, Focus on Vocabulary and Focus on Comprehension are recommended. This site also hosts a great search engine for resources that are consistent with Reading First.

 

Intervention Central offers suggestions for interventions, behavior management and a lot more.

 

Reading Rockets web page includes hundreds of articles sorted by topic.

 

Panhandle Area Education Consortium features online two hour workshops on various topics

 

This section contains University of Oregon's curriculum maps for the five big ideas. It is similar in purpose, but more detailed, than Missouri's GLE's.

 

A summary of the National Reading Panel's findings.

  

Children of the Code (a social education project) regularly features transcripts of interviews with experts in the field of reading research.