Archived Articles on Literacy and Reading

These articles are about literacy and reading.

• Literacy Resources for Parents and Early Childhood Educators - publications and television resources for early childhood educators and parents.
• What We Know about Adolescent Reading - by Willard R. Daggett, International Center for Leadership in Education, and Dr. Ted S. Hasselbring, Vanderbilt University (2007).
• Focus on Film: Learning It Through the Movies - Link to an article that examines the use of movies to teach literacy.
• Can I Have a Word? - visual stimulation tools, writing activities, and short commissioned works by poets (both audio and text files).
• Inspired Writing and Inquiry, by Jamie McKenzie - many practical ideas about how educators can enhance literacy skills through the use of ICT.
• Students Use Palm® Handhelds for Reading, Writing, and Podcasting - Jamestown is one of the most active schools in Arlington Public Schools' integration of handheld technology to support the district's writing curriculum.
• Reading - a range of information for talking to parents about ways children learn to read.
• Literacy Leadership Success Stories - 5 schools that have implemented highly successful literacy plans.
• Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change - book review.
• Learning Resources Supporting Quick Reads - The Vital Link is working with World Book Day in producing learning materials to accompany the new Quick Reads titles.
• The Evaluation of the Looking after Literacy Project in Kent for children in public care. (PDF format)
• Preventing Reading Problems - factors common to successful early intervention programs.
• DEST School Innovation: Pathway to the Knowledge Society - Chapter 2 - Early Literacy. - account of innovation and change in 16 primary schools that had nominated literacy as their focus area.
• What Is Strategic Reading? - includes charts and checklists on “How Do Strategic Readers Differ from Poor Readers?”
• Improving Literacy Skills with the Aberdeen Reading Bus - the process of involving the community in raising literacy levels.
• Triage for Struggling Adolescent Readers - a systems approach offering intensive care for the most at-risk students.
• "America Reads" website - articles on literacy education that may be useful for staff and/or thought provokers.
• Simple things to help with reading for leaders, parents and teachers.
• Reaching for our reading goal.
• Information literacy and much more.
• Reading and writing projects.