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This is an excellent article from an expert that explains why students no longer find interest in reading outside of school and how to regain that interest.

Teacher Donalyn Miller earned the nickname The Book Whisperer" because of her almost mystical success getting kids to read -- a lot. Allowing children to choose books, and providing reading role models and time to read are among her strategies. Included: Reading tips and resources from The Book Whisperer."

This article deals with how important it is to get children reading on their own and some of the strategies that Donalyn Miller used

TOEFL Network will help you to practice for the TOEFL reading test online. This section consists of 11 reading exercises. Each reading exercise contains 1 reading passage and 12 multiple choice questions similar to TOEFL exam.

This site gives tips on how to connect classroom read alouds to standards.

Here's a list of ideas for making every read-aloud count, while assuring your principal that you are focused on meeting standards.

This is one in a series of articles that Cathy Puett Miller writes giving practical suggestion on how to get read alouds to cover the "standards"

A reading site that offers tools for reading and comprehension strategies by reading level. It's free. Would like to learn more???

Reading Bulletin Boards Our Reading Bulletin Board Ideas page will provide you with great resources for a number of reading related topics. Our bulletin boards will help you integrate various activities into your daily curriculum. Ideas within the reading bulletin board pages include resources for the following: literary Elements, various reading genres, reading clubs, and phonics.

Order our Launching Young Readers PBS series Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

This is an article describing how to raise student interest in reading for fun or leisure.

Despite schools focus on reading, many students still are not reading independently or for pleasure. A program developed by a college professor stresses hooking students on reading by introducing them to challenging subject matter that interests them. Included: A description of a comprehensive reading program.

EducationWorld wants to help you turn your students into the best readers possible. To do that, we have compiled the "Reading Room" a huge list of articles and activities designed to help you teach reading. We start with research-based concepts, ready-to-use tools, and extensions for learning provided by our own "Reading Coach."

One of the four parts of the TOEFL Test is the Reading section. This is the section that measures a candidate's ability to understand written university level academic text and passages.

includes/content/subnav.asp NOINDEX "Reading Recovery is the best evidence yet of the direct link between good design and education excellence."- K.G. Wilson and B. Daviss GoalThe goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems. What Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders.

I've seen a lot of hubbub lately touting the teaching of reading at an increasingly early age. First, there was a commercial for a program claiming it could teach your baby to read. Then, I saw an ad for a school whose biggest selling point (according to the ad) was that their school can have your child reading before kindergarten.

Proof that reading to your kids is important

The Reading Corner, a place for students (Grades 3-8) to find good books to read. Reviews of children's books.

Get to know about the TOEFL exam with Free TOEFL iBT Reading Practice sample test. TOEFL Network offers a comprehensive 100% online course that will help you gain confidence & improve your TOEFL score.

This is an article that details how vocabulary is linked to reading comprehension.

A strong vocabulary is an important part of reading comprehension. According to Drs. Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeown ( Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction), children should add about 2,000-3,500 words annually to their reading vocabulary. But did you know that students learn 85 percent of those new words indirectly, as they interact with language and text?

A quality TOEFL Reading Practice comes with great reviews, which you should never dismiss. In the end, you want a quality material that is reliable for your TOEFL online preparation process.

Nothing captures young children's attention more than music and motion, and an approach called Reading In Motion lets youngsters exercise their creativity (and their bodies) as well as their minds as they learn to read. Included: A description of Reading In Motion.

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