Put Reading First

Becoming a reader involves the development of important skills, including learning to:

• use language in conversation
• listen and respond to stories read aloud
• recognize and name the letters of the alphabet
• listen to the sounds of spoken language
• connect sounds to letters to figure out the “code” of reading
• read often so that recognizing words becomes easy and automatic
• learn and use new words
• understand what is read

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first2.html

Learn more…

National Institute for Literacy administers The Partnership for Reading and other programs that promote child and adult literacy. www.nifl.gov.

Teaching Children to Read, the 2000 report of the National Reading Panel www.nationalreadingpanel.org

Handbook of Reading Research

Journals – Reading Teacher, Journal of Reading Behavior, Reading Research Quarterly,

Ogle, D. (1986). K-W-L: A teaching model that develops active reading of expository text. Reading Teacher, 39, 564-70.