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.

This is the National Reading First newsletter, published three times each year. http://www.readingfirstsupport.us/default.asp?article_id=11

Order or download copies of Put Reading First and other publications. http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html

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.

http://www.learningpt.org/pdfs/literacy/components.pdf

The Pacific Regional Education Laboratory has a lot of valuable downloads. Assessing Reading Fluency, Focus on Vocabulary and Focus on Comprehension are recommended. http://ppo.prel.org/cs/ppo/view/pubdocs/12

This is a search engine from PREL for resources that are consistent with Reading First. http://www.earlyreading.info/cs/erw/view/pubdocs/1

This website offers suggestions for interventions, behavior management and a lot more. http://www.interventioncentral.com/index.shtml#ideas

This webpage includes hundreds of articles sorted by topic http://www.readingrockets.org/articles and also this list http://www.readingrockets.org/research/

This website features online two hour workshop on various topics http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/english_languagearts.html

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

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

A summary of the National Reading Panel's findings. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrp/upload/smallbook_pdf.pdf

http://www.childrenofthecode.org/ This organization regularly features transcripts of interviews with experts in the field of reading research.