Reading and Math Resources
Reading
A Social Education Project
The Code and the Challenge of Learning To Read It
A Public Television, DVD & Web Documentary Series
Whole Language Lives On: The Illusion of Balanced Reading Instruction
Reading Tests: What They Measure, and Don't Measure
Whole Language Lives on: The Illusion of "Balanced" Reading Instruction
National Reading Panel
Publications and Materials
Summary Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD]. (2000).
A Child Becomes a Reader
Proven Ideas for Parents from Research--Kindergarten through Grade Three
Put Reading First
The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read
Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science:
What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do
What Are the Criteria for Remedial Reading Programs?
The Florida Center for Reading Research
4 Great Definitions About Reading in NCLB
Considerations when Selecting a Reading Program
The Access Center
Help Your Struggling Reader Now:
Beware of the Developmental Lag Excuse
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development.
Analysis of Reading Assessment Instruments K-3
Get Ready to Read
Great Leaps Reading
Types of Research and Their Roles in Improvement of Practice
Framing Your Thoughts and Developing a Reading Skills Curriculum
To teach or not to teach phonics, that is the question.
http://www.readingrockets.org/research/topic/phonics
Why is this child struggling to learn to read?
http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target
MATH
Early Math: The Next Big Thing
by Ann S. Epstein, Ph.D., Director, Early Childhood Division
Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics (2001)
Center for Education (CFE)
Math & LD: Counting on Research for Answers
By Dr. Sheldon H. Horowitz
NCLD Director of Professional Services
Touch Math Newsletter Articles and Suggestions
Dyscalculia Fact Sheet
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities in Mathematics
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
US Department of Education
The Nation's Report Card: National Assessment of Educational Progress
Did You Know...
Fast Facts on Literacy
The societal consequences of reading failure are immense:
- A student who finishes second grade without being able to read has only a 1 in 4 chance of reading at grade level by the end of elementary school.
- The current approach to reading failure is remedial, not preventative, forcing students to evidence failure before receiving help.
- Thirty-five percent of children with reading disabilities drop out of school, a rate twice that of their classmates.
- Twenty-five percent of adults in this country lack the basis literacy skills required for a typical job.
- Fifty percent of juvenile delinquents manifest some kind of learning disability, primarily in the area of reading.
- Learn more...
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the study and treatment of dyslexia. The IDA provides support to teachers, parents, and individuals with dyslexia through the website, publications, conferences, and workshops.
New Hampshire Branch of the International Dyslexia Association
provides a wealth of resources on their website.
