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Literacy Bibliography

Overall Literacy Resources (added January 2008)

Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, 3rd edition, by Gambrell, Morrow, Pressley, 2007

Put Reading First- can be downloaded at:  www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading

Adolescent Literacy-can be downloaded at: http://www.all4ed.org

Reading Next-can be downloaded at: http://www.all4ed.org

Writing Next-can be downloaded at : http://www.all4ed.org

Content Area Literacy-can be downloaded at : http://www.all4ed.org

 

Phonemic Awareness

Ambruster, B. & Osborn, J. (2001). Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching
Children to read
.
National Institute for Literacy.

Griffith, Priscilla, and Mary W. Olson. (1992) Phonemic Awareness Helps Beginning Readers

Break the Code. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 47; 516-523.

National Reading Panel Report on the Subgroups

Reiner, Kathleen. (1998) Developing a Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Program;

An Action Research Project. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 52; 70-73.

Yopp, Hallie Kay. (1992b) Developing Phonemic Awareness in Young Children. The

Reading Teacher, Vol. 45; 696-703.

Yopp, Hallie Kay. (1995) Read-Aloud Books for Developing Phonemic Awareness; An

Annotated Bibliography. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 48; 538-542.

Phonics

Ambruster, B. & Osborn, J. (2001). Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching
Children to read
.
National Institute for Literacy.

Cunningham, Patricia and James W. Cunningham. (1992) Making Words; Enhancing

The Invented Spelling-Decoding Connection. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 46;

106-113.

National Reading Panel Report on the Subgroups

Stahl, Steven A., Ann M. Duffy-Hester, and Katherine Anne Dougherty Stahl. (1998)

Everything You Wanted to Know About Phonics (But Were Afraid to Ask).

Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 33; (338-355).

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Fluency

Ambruster, B. & Osborn, J. (2001). Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching
Children to read
.
National Institute for Literacy.

Nathan, R.G., & Stanovich, K.E. (1991). The causes and consequences of differences in reading

Fluency. Theory Into Practice, 30, 176-184.

National Reading Panel Report on the Subgroups

Rasinski, T.V. (2000). Speed does matter in reading. The Reading Teacher, 54, 146-150.

Samuels, S.J. (1979). The method of repeated readings. The Reading Teacher, 32, 403-408.

Zutell, J., & Rasinski, T.V. (1991). Training teachers to attend to their students oral reading

Fluency. Theory Into Practice, 30, 211-217.

Reading Comprehension

Ambruster, B. & Osborn, J. (2001). Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching
Children to read
.
National Institute for Literacy.

Cooper, J. David. (1997) Literacy: Helping Children Construct Meaning. (3rd Edition).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

Duffy, G.G., Roehler, L.R., Herman, B. (1988). Modeling Mental Processes Helps Poor

Readers Become Strategic Readers. The Reading Teacher, (April 1988). Vol. 41: 762-

767.

Duke, Nell K. and Pearson, P.D. Effective Practices for Developing Reading

Comprehension. CIERA (University of Michigan)

Fielding, L.G. and Pearson, P.D. Reading Comprehension: What Works. Educational

Leadership, Vol. 51, #5.

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis. Strategies That Work. York, Maine: Stenhouse

Publishers

Keene, Ellin Oliver and Susan Zimmerman. (1997). Mosaic of Thought. Portsmouth, NH:

Heinemann

Moss, Barbara. (1995). Using Children s Tradebooks as Read-Alouds. Language Arts,

Vol.72 (Feb): 122-125.

National Reading Panel Report on the Subgroups

Palinscar, A.S. and A.L. Brown. (1986). Interactive Teaching to Promote Independent

Learning From Text. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 39; 771-777.

Pearson, P.D. and Dunsmore, K. (1998). Teaching Reading to Young Students.

Taylor, B. M. and Pearson, P.D., Clark, K.F., and Walpole, S. (1999). Effective

Schools/Accomplished Teachers. The Reading Teacher, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Oct.).

Guided Reading

Fountas, Irene and Gay Su Pinnell. (1996) Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for

All Children. Porstmouth, NH; Heinemann

Reading Recovery

DeFord, Diane, Carol A. Lyons, and Gay Su Pinnell. (1991) Bridges to Literacy:

Learning From Reading Recovery. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

Lyons, Carol A., Gay Su Pinnell, and Diane DeFord. (1993) Partners in Learning.

Columbia University: Teachers College Press

The Use of Quality Nonfiction

Studying Nonfiction: Is It Accurate and Well-Written?" from Bamford, R.A. and Kristo, J.V. (1998).

Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature: Examining Aspects of Accuracy and Organization. In R.A. Bamford and J. V. Kristo (Eds.),

Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature (K-8), (pp. 19-38). Norwood, MA: Christopher Gordon.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) Web Site:

www.CIERA.org

"Improving the Reading Achievement of America’s Children: 10 Research-Based Principles"

"Every Child A Reader"

"Teaching Every Child to Read: Frequently Asked Questions,"