In the News: Articles Related Children's Literature
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Ed Week: "Reading Group, NAEYC Issue Literacy Recommendations"
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-17/42read.h17
Ed Week: "From a 'Great Debate' to a Full-Scale War: Dispute Over Teaching Reading Heats Up"
http://www.edweek.org/htbin/fastweb?getdoc+view4+ew1990+445+23+wAAA+%26%28
Ed Week: "Phonics and Whole Language"
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/phonics.htm
Ed Week: "A War of Words: Whole Language Under Siege"
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-15/26eng.h15
Ed Week: "Whole Language Model Survives Despite Swing Back to Basics"
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/27whole.h18
Ed Week: "The Decline of Literacy"
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-15/34roch.h15
Ed Week: "No End to Reading Wars"
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/14coles.h18
Los Angeles Times: "Reading by 9" List of Articles
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "Libraries Turn the Page for Literacy"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000040995.html
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "Educators Tout Standards, Foresee Slow Progress"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000045987.html
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "State Taking a Lesson from School's Success Story"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000039515.html
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "Expert Advice"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000037203.html
Expert advice given by Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development at Tufts University and director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at the campus in Medford, Massachusetts.
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "Better Late Than Never"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000029912.html
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "People Making a Difference: Reina Schaffer"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000118249.html
Los Angeles Times, Reading by 9 series: "Paper Tale"
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/READBY9/READSTORY/t000109106.html
Teaching K-8: Online Archives
http://www.teachingk-8.com/html/archives.html
Teaching K-8: "Teaching Ideas from Across America"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/5_98feature1.html
Teaching K-8: "From Talking Wall to Schoolwide Mall"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/02_99feature1.html
Teaching K-8: "The Rhythm of Writing and Art"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/10_97outtakes1.html
Interview with Brian and Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrator and author team.
Teaching K-8: "Little Kid from Newark"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/1_99outtakes1.html
Interview with Lee Bennett Hopkins, poet and editor.
Teaching K-8: "Virtuosa with Words"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/11_98outtakes1.html
Interview with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Shiloh. Includes a teachers' guide for the Shiloh Trilogy.
Teaching K-8: "Graham Salisbury's Newfound Career"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/3_98outtakes1.html
Interview with Graham Salisbury, author of Under the Blood-Red Sun.
Teaching K-8: "The Other Cool Cat"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/seuss1.html
Interview with Dr. Seuss, author/illustrator of The Cat in the Hat.
Teaching K-8: "Man of Many Talents"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/prelutsky.html
Interview with Jack Prelutsky, author of The New Kid on the Block.
Teaching K-8: "A Book Waiting to Happen"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/9_98outtakes1.html
Interview with David Wisniewski, author/illustrator of Golem.
Teaching K-8: "Rites of Passage"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/5_98outtakes1.html
Interview with Emily Arnold McCully, author/illustrator of Mirette on the High Wire.
Teaching K-8: "Avi on Fiction"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/9_97outtakes2.html
Interview with Avi, author of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Nothing But the Truth.
Teaching K-8: "Pursuing the Past"
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/html/2_98outtakes1.html
Interview with Karen Cushman, author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice.
The Washington Post: "Why Johnny Can't Decode"
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/why_johnny_cant_decode.html
The Washington Post: "From Letters to Sounds"
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/from_letters_to_sounds.html
1994 Reading Report Card: Findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/y25flk/rrcexec.shtml
CSU Institute for Education Reform: "Building a Powerful Reading Program: From Research to Practice"
http://www.csus.edu/ier/reading.html
"Literacy in Multicultural Settings: Whose Culture Are We Discussing?"
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/ward.html
"Double, Double, Not Much Toil, Not Much Trouble: Shakespeare in the Middle School Classroom"
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/katz/katz_frame.html
"Making and Writing Words"
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/words/rasinski_index.html
"Me and my hypertext: ) A multiple digression analysis of technology and literacy (sic)"
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/words/rasinski_index.html
Reading Matters: NEA's newsletter
http://congress.nw.dc.us/neareaders/
Subscription form for NEA's free e-mail newsletter, which offers tips on reading instruction and reports on current reading issues.
Educational Resources for Busy Parents and Educators: "Commonly Asked Questions about Raising Reading Achievement in Your School"
http://www.elainemcewan.com/teachers.htm
"Read by Grade 3"
http://www.readbygrade3.com/
"30 Years of Research: What We Know about How Children Learn to Read"
http://cftl.org/30years/30years.html
"Strategies for Dealing with Dysgraphia"
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/writing/dysgraphia_strategies.html
National Research Council: "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children"
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/nrc_lerner.html
"Learning to Read in the Computer Age"
http://www.cast.org/LearningToRead/
Testimony of G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., on Children's Literacy
(Before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives)
http://www.apa.org/ppo/lyon.html
"Thoughts on Not Seeing Oneself"
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/oneself.html
"Selecting Hispanic Books for School Libraries"
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mulhispsel.htm
"Targeting the Emergent Reader"
http://www.underdown.org/early_rd.htm
Dept. of Ed: Early Childhood Development and the America Reads Challenge
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/newsletters/97fall/early1.html
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