Reading and Remedial Learning
Reading Articles
Exploring Reading Nightmares
of Middle and Secondary School Teachers.
Looks into the problems facing middle and secondary school teachers in teaching reading. Decline in interest and slow down in development in reading based on high school grades; Nightmares faced by reading teachers in the classroom; Need for higher education to reassess the role reading education plays within the teacher education curriculum; Changing students' perception of reading.
National
Reading Panel Report, 2000: "Teaching Children to Read"
This report is an excellent resource for parents, teachers, administrators, or anyone interested in learning about reading instruction research.
The
Challenge of Content Area Literacy: A Middle School Case Study.
Explores the challenge of teaching content area literacy programs. Students' need for proficiency in reading and writing; Context of the study; Strategies for reading and learning in content area instruction; Assessment; Conclusion.
Instructional
strategies for content-area reading instruction.
Presents an overview of the components of content area reading instruction. Instructional strategies that can be used to teach students with reading disabilities how to approach content area reading; Strategy instruction in word identification, vocabulary, and comprehension skills; Phonetic analysis; Structural analysis; Semantic feature analysis.
Promoting Reading Comprehension, Content Learning,
and English Acquisition through
Collaborative Strategic Reading
Presents information on Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). Aspects of CSR; Overview of CSR; Effectiveness of CSR in promoting comprehension.
Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes? ERIC Digest.
Research has indicated that current information about reading and the effective teaching of reading has not yet made much impact on content area textbooks. As a result, there is much room for improvement in how textbooks are written. Recent research has yielded a great deal of information about what makes a text more understandable and supportive to the student in learning concepts. Yet research in the area of text adaptation indicates that the process of revision is complex and cannot be addressed with simple solutions. Publishers also need to consider particularly the need for inclusion of additional graphics and attention not only to the content but also to the organization and style of the text. (Sixteen references are attached.)
Remedial
Learning Articles
Ensuring Content-Area Learning by Secondary Students
with Learning Disabilities.
Three factors tied with secondary student success in content-area reading are demonstrated: (a) validated teacher-focused and student-focused interventions, (b) integrated and comprehensive service delivery systems, and (c) well-designed, data-based professional developmental programs. Difficult challenges face secondary students with LD and their teachers with regard to these students' participation and success in required general education classes. Recently, instructional methods and materials have been developed and validated for promoting these students' success. Some of them focus on how general education teachers plan and teach their content-area courses; others focus on giving students the strategies they need to respond independently to the demands of their courses. This article describes these instructional methods, a service-delivery model for implementing these interventions in secondary schools, and professional-development mechanisms and administrative support that must be in place for the model to be maintained effectively.
Hypertext support for remedial students and students
with learning disabilities.
Determines the effects of hypermedia text presentation on the
comprehension of content area reading material of students with learning disabilities
and remedial students in the United States. Setting and students; Materials
used; Test scores; Educational method; Question type.
Integrative Strategy Instruction: A Potential Model
for Teaching
Proposes an instructional model for integrating cognitive strategy instruction and content area instruction when teaching students with learning disabilities (LD) in content area classes. Forms of knowledge addressed by integrative strategy instruction (ISI); Compatibility of ISI with special education services offered in remedial classes to adolescents with LD.
Struggling Readers Don't Work at Reading: They Just
Get Their Teachers To!
A study compared the behaviors of 17 children with reading difficulties and their teachers during one-on-one learning sessions and 17 excellent readers with their teachers in similar sessions. Results indicated the children with reading difficulties physically possessed their reading materials less, participated in little interaction, and handled the materials insecurely. Instructional implications are discussed. (CR)
Web Sites
Content Area Literacy Consortium
This site is fabulous! It provides an archive of research, strategies, lessons plans, templates, and many useful links to promote content area literacy in every discipline.
International
Reading Association
This site provides access to IRA resources, journal articles, grant opportunities, and chat rooms.
Reading
Strategy Awareness Inventory
Test your students' knowledge of reading strategies.
Reading
Comprehension Connection
Give students practice tests for vocabulary in context, reading for understanding, and reading strategies.
Practice tests for Reading, Science Reasoning, Social Science, and Math.
Professional
Reading Resources for Teachers on the World Wide Web
Chicago Public School's resource for the best professional sites for educators on reading and literacy.
Reading
Scoring Guides and Assessments
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory site providing rubrics and scoring guides for students and teachers to assess effective reading.