Literacy

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children - Executive Summary
National Research Council
1998
www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/ReadDiff/read-sum.html
Report from the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children sponsored by the National Research Council. Information about research-based approaches to helping struggling readers become good readers.
Beginning Reading
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
1998
www.ericec.org/digests/e565.html
The importance of teaching struggling readers using research based methods. Points out the critical issues of phonological awareness and word recognition.
Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
2000
www.ericec.org/digests/e599.html
Teaching struggling readers to use comprehension strategies that may come naturally to good readers. These strategies can help the struggling student improve comprehension.