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The computer generated report that the student and teacher can see after each quiz a students takes.

Article from The Reading Teacher about problems that come up when teaching fluency and how to resolve these problems. 

This has a ton of really great and quick activities to help with students' handwriting. I really like the b/d makes a "bed" and using index fingers to help with spacing between words.

This article is about word study and different techniques that a teacher can use with a student who need help in this particular area.

This article gave great examples of sorting the different types of words into categories. For example, when two words that sound the same have different meanings (their and there). It also expresses different spelling patterns that the children will encounter. Words that end in "or," "er," and "ar." This article explains that studying words of more than one syllable offers opportunities to build awareness of how language is used in narrative writing.

An article discussing the results of a study investigating the effectiveness of combining technology and traditional vocabulary strategies in L2 vocabulary acquisition. Overall results point towards technology (specifically Mywordtools) integration being beneficial in L2 vocabulary learning

There are an estimated 88,500 word families in printed school English. So how do we, as literacy teachers, determine the most valuable, appropriate vocabulary for each student?

Seems impossible, doesn't it? This is often why folks who argue for a holistic or sociocultural approach to teaching and learning start with what the child knows and build from there.

This article shares the idea of having students choose the words they would like to learn as a strategy to teach vocabulary. The students put their chosen words in a box to review as a class.

This is an introduction to using E-books in the elementary classroom

This is an article about a study that was done with English Language learners and the relationship between their reading comprehension and reading fluency.

This is the main resource for PALS information and PALS materials. It has contact information as well as links to their grade level teaching manuals.

This is the main resource for PALS information and PALS materials. It has contact information as well as links to their grade level teaching manuals.

This resource also comes from Hienemann, the publishers of the LLI system. However, this link leads to the research base for LLI, which outlines lesson plan designs and rates of success of LLI in classrooms.

An overview of strategies for integrating various technological mediums into the classrooms and educators' perceptions on strategies and technology in general.

This website has metacognitive strategies that enhances reading comprehension and vocabulary with students in the 3rd grade. This website also talks about the importance and instruction of metacognitive strategies.

This article connects with our video strategy, because it talks about how struggling readers take leadership roles through discussion.  The article is a study about struggling readers and discussion.

This is an article on a literature review about Reading Recovery and how the theories behind the program can inform classroom instruction.

What do you think about this article? Using only female participants might be a limitation, but perhaps it was essential to the study...

This article analyzes the use of iPads with struggling readers. It talks about technology as a vehicle for literacy motivation.

This is an overview of what the Leveled Literacy Intervention contains and purpose.