Overview
of how children learn to read words
How
to help children tune into the sounds in words
How to
teach phoneme awareness How
to
teach blending How
to teach a letterbox lesson How
to assess decoding and phoneme awareness
How
to
teach spelling as wordmapping How
to help with oral reading How
to develop reading fluency Using
decodable text How
to
count phonemes in spoken words How
to teach letter recognitionSUMMER READING PROGRAM
GENIE BOOKS: Help us find a publisher for our new decodable book series
FROM THE CLASSROOM: These lessons apply scientific knowledge of reading with creativity and flair.
RESEARCH: These links take you to state-of-the-art research about reading.
Click
for
"Gaining Alphabetic Insight," from the Journal
of Educational Psychology
Here
is the National Reading Panel's synthesis of research on
teaching children to readMATERIALS: These links take you to materials for reading teachers, especially those enrolled in CTRD 3710 at Auburn University.
List
of
phonemes, spellings, and meaningful representations
Glossary
of
key terms used in decoding instruction
Bibliography
of tongue twister books
Tongue
ticklers for practicing phoneme awareness Catalog
of
the most frequent spellings for each phoneme
My
Test of Phoneme Identities. Find out if your
child is ready to learn to read. 4-,
5-,
or 6-phoneme example words for your letterbox lesson
Hand
gestures
for phonemes
Phoneme pictures for short vowels
Ways
to describe the mouth moves for phonemes
Creative
phoneme chants with posters
Phoneme-letter
pictures--phoneme
pictures with embedded letters
More
phon-let pictures: Professional illustrations for short
vowels
Phoneme
pictures: Consonants and other vowels
Tips From Tutors--insights from
successful tutors on effective teaching strategies
Basic components of effective phoneme awareness
lessons
I taught phoneme awareness: Why didn't my
students catch on? PowerPoint
from my talk at the Georgia Struggling Reader Conference,
Athens GA, September 7, 2007. Images from Byrne and Fielding Barnsley study for teaching phoneme awareness Information
about commercial phoneme awareness programs
Information
about the Plains Reading Council
Information
about the Alabama Reading Initiative
Information
about me Kristina
Sauerwein's article, "Do Rewards for Reading Really Work?"
Open Court Resources siteClick below for entertaining decodable text online.
How
I
evaluated the reading series Harcourt
Houghton-Mifflin
McGraw-Hill
Scholastic
Scott-Foresman
Summary
and ranking SRA
Reading Mastery Houghton-Mifflin
2003 vs. Open Court 2002
CRITICAL READING: Nothing But the Truth. Everywhere we look, but especially on the web, we find emotionally charged language and opinion masquerading as fact, often written by people with little knowledge of their topics but with a strong desire to persuade. We hope readers will learn to strip away emotional language, sort facts from opinions, examine the qualifications and motives of writers, and finally consider whether the evidence warrants believing a claim as "nothing but the truth."
Start
here
by
reading
excerpts
from
Avi's
Nothing But the Truth. Go
here
to learn how to translate emotionally loaded words into
neutral language. Go
here
to
learn
how
to
separate
fact
from opinion--and from false claims and untested claims. Go
here
to learn how to weigh the motives and qualifications of a
writer. Go
here to learn how to evaluate a claim and to recognize
faulty arguments.
Check back for more research-based information
on teaching children to read.
If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, e-mail me at murraba@auburn.edu
