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This article is about children growing up in a world of technology. The way technology effectcs growing readers and their learning abilities. It also touches on how it changes the way they perceive reading.

Thia article is about a study done on the connection between parents ready to their children and their development of literacy. It says that the children that were read to a year later had become more literate. This is a very interesting study.

This article discusses Oprah as 20 to 100 times more of a powerful influence than any other media personality. This is interesting to see how popular she really is with our country and how Oprah connects readers and sells books like no one has ever been able to do before. The article brings up her powerful line "Read this book." When she says this people do it! It will be a good article to get information out of about how people are affected.

The authors of this article work to express how huge of a deal Oprah Winfrey is in our reading world. They point out how in the years that Oprah talked about her book club weekly on her show; all of the books were on America's top 150! This is a huge point to support my claim of influence that Oprah has over us. This article was extremely helpful also because there were a lot of graphs that showed the huge relationship between Oprah's announcement and ranking of book. The article gives many more stats and examples of influence and will be very useful to me in my paper.

The article explains the Reading First Initiative in the No Child Left Behind Act. The author further discusses the need for more in depth research on literature based education and teaching practices. The article touches on various classroom teaching methods and analyzes literacy in several Children's literature professional journals.

This article talks about how important it is for parents being involved when their children are learning to read. It also goes on to talk about how they can decide their childrens futures and whether they will become literate professional adults. The involvement of a parent is very important.

This athor of the article talks about some ways in which the achievment gap can be closed. they discussed how having school year round could help, but by doing studies it has not increased the students knowledge. There are more practical solutions that need to evolve. The author suggests that if the student is taught reading strategies from their home life, then it will impact the students literacy greatly.

This article is about literacy. It is helpful.

This is a study of monolingual and bilingual children and how they perform. This study tests the children with different test types. It tested the children in vocab and reading skills.

A film on OhioLINK. Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing, the key to unlocking all forms of communication and the entry point to many other exciting domains, is emphasized. In addition, the concept of multiple intelligences is explored. (52 minutes, color)

Slow reading counterbalances web skimming.

It turns out that reading aloud to your child is a violent act.

This article talks about how important it is for parents being involved when their children are learning to read. It also goes on to talk about how they can decide their childrens futures and whether they will become literate professional adults. The involvement of a parent is very important.

This article talks about how Harry Potter has truly had a major impact on the literacy of young people. It give statistics of how many young people feel it has made them become more interested in reading. The article also gives results of studies done at a few universities

The book industry will suffer a hit when the Harry Potter books aren't as popular. So many people read all the books and it was such a great time for the finances of the book business. Many people agree that Harry Potter will be missed.

This article addresses men and women in political coverage and the media. When women make decision about who to vote for, they rely more on their close relatives and friends, while men rely more on the media and other coverage. Men, especially when younger pay more attention to the media and read the news paper for political information versus women. The researches conducts a survey in which it shows women are tended to be more democratic than men so this can affect the way they choose to vote. This article will be useful to my research because it shows how men and women use different forms of literacy to vote. This is an outside perspective and it allows a researcher to see the other side of the voting process. This article also proves the point women tend to be more democratic, which can mean if a women is running as a Republican, they are less likely to attract women voters.

This article is about how to develp fluent readers. You need to teach how to read and write very early on. In order to do this the right way, a teacher should use Eli. Eli stands for Early Literacy Initiative. In the program you teach the early childhood level skills to preschoolers. You teach them early on because they can improve thier skills are they grow older.

Using an ethnography of discourse approach, this article argues that literate interactions in a rural eastern Kentucky community are strongly linked to symbolic values assigned to self through the gender-based division of reading and writing labor. Noting that literate practices are God-given attributes of women's "nature," it describes how literate interactions provide contexts in which a woman can negotiate her social, religious, and cultural identity. What constitutes acceptable literate forms is culturally constrained by a tension between maintaining "country" values while assimilating those "proper" women's literate forms which augment, rather than replace, oral forms. Men's identities are not linked to these literate practices, creating minimal or non-literate behavior. These cultural constructs of literacy affect both men's and women's behavior in classroom, workplace, or urban interfacing situations, affecting mobility problems. (Abstract taken from JSTOR.)

Current emphasis in curricular design for FLES programs dedicates little time to the development of second language literacy in foreign language learners in the elementary school. A focus on developing these literacy skills is essential, if communicative competence is to be the goal in a fully articulated K-12 curriculum for Spanish. The vehicle necessary for developing these skills lies in curricular objectives that emphasize literacy and in teacher development programs that foster the growth of this instructional skill in FLES teachers. In light of a theoretical discussion of the need for group reading instruction, an instructional unit serves as a model for developing the first and second language literacy of early elementary language learners. (Abstract taken from JSTOR.)

This article is about how parents play a major role in a child's development of literacy. It tells you different programs to help parents communicate and get involved. Your child's academic success depends on their literacy so parents need to be active in this process.