Brozo, William G., 2002. International Reading Association. http://www.amazon.com/To-Boy-Reader-Engaging-Literacy/dp/0872075087/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331505635&sr=1-1 The author sugge...
Plourde, Lee A., and Ludivina Prado. "Increasing reading comprehension through the explicit teaching of reading strategies: is there a difference among the genders?" reading Improvement Spring 2011...
http://rpsagsu.svsu.edu/gale-go/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE%7CA224989288&v=2.1&u=lom_saginawvsu&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&authCount=1
The article is available through ERIC: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED423718.pdf
The middle school I am teaching in has been doing a yearly exam across all three grade levels that is called the Reading Comprehension Measurement (RCM). We created (and when I say we, I was actual...
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/pdfs/Hasselbring_and_Goin_technology_literacy_professional_paper.pdf This article from Scholastic is meaningful to me because in general, olde...
I have heard a lot about this book in recent months. The hand selection of books is amazing. I could not imagine doing that for my students. I like a lot of the ideas that you wrote about like t...
by Anna Scott (reposted as a topic) The Café Book is written by The Two Sisters, Joan Moser and Gail Boushey. The book is written in conjunction with The Daily 5, also written by them. The Daily...
http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Authors/Mike-Schmoker.aspx?id=772617157001
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Dr. Clinton, when you stated that RTI is not legislation, I looked back on the article to see where I had misinterpreted information. The article states exactly what you commented on, that RTI is ...
Professor Clinton- It also makes me realize that teaching these students the position of their mouth/tongue/etc when producing these sounds is extremely important. When speaking to a Title I Aide t...
You did a nice job of summarizing the article and making connections to your own practice. Around 1990, I took a 2-week summer course on reading in the content areas. The instructor was actually ou...
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Another fascinating article. I appreciate how you share your thinking about your own literacy experiences, and what you hope to bring to students.
This is a phenomenal book for teaching text structures. For those who aren't familiar with text structure, it's basically the format that an author chooses to write a text in. Text structure is usu...
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/guided-comprehension-previewing-using-226.html In using Anticipation guides I have had very good luck with bringing attention to...
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