Debbie Miller's advice for parents

From Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology Kristi Gerig, Jan Perry, and Leanette Spencer The University of Georgia Review of Reading Recovery Eric is a first grade student at Camelot Elementary, a large school that serves a diverse population of 1200 students.

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.

15 Super Easy ways to help your reluctant learners Unfortunately, approximately 40% of kids are considered to be struggling readers. The best way to prevent your child from being part of this statistic is to start teaching reading EARLY. Your children will have much less difficulty learning to read the earlier they get started.

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.

Introducing Librarians' Internet Index Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website serving the world You can search and browse the website for the best of the Web. There are over 20,000 entries, maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

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.

Columbia Elementary's school motto is "Together We Can!" Together principal Lori Musser and staff members have adopted initiatives such as after-school clubs and intensive reading instruction to help students achieve. Included: Learn about Columbia's "Great Expectations" for students! "Our mission is clear at Columbia Elementary School," says principal Lori Musser.

By Cathy Puett Miller This is the last article of a three-part series on reading aloud with students. If this is your first visit to the series, you might want to access the earlier articles. I hope by now that you've been practicing new and improved strategies for reading aloud in your classroom.