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.
Voyages--Lesson
designs Spring 2008 
Encounters--Lesson
designs Fall 2007
Navigations--Lesson
designs Summer 2007
Odysseys--Lesson
designs Spring 2007
Perspectives--Lesson
designs Fall 2006
Catalysts--Lesson
designs Summer 2006
Inventions--Lesson
designs Spring 2006
Constructions--Lesson
designs Fall 2005
Innovations--Lesson
designs Summer 2005
Connections--Lesson
designs Spring 2005
Explorations--Lesson
designs Fall 2004
Beginnings--Lesson
designs Summer 2004
Guidelines--Lesson
designs Spring 2004
Inspirations--Lesson
designs Fall 2003
Discoveries--Lesson
designs Summer 2003
Openings--Lesson
designs Spring 2003
Inroads--Lesson
designs from Fall 2002
Elucidations--Lesson
designs from Spring 2002
Challenges--Lesson
designs Fall 2001
Illuminations--Lesson
designs Summer 2001
Breakthroughs--Lesson
designs Spring 2001
Insights--Lesson
designs Fall 2000
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 read
MATERIALS: 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 Wallach
and Wallach's tongue twisters 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 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.
Information
about commercial phoneme awareness programs Information
about the Plains Reading Council Information about the
Alabama Reading Initiative Educational
Insights offers a fine low cost series of decodable Phonics Readers
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
