New legislation will transform American public education. Basic to the No Child Left Behind Act and the Put Reading First program is a new and substantial federal intrusion into local curriculum control and teacher autonomy. This intrusion is masked in the legislative mandate for "evidence-based", or "scientific", reading instruction. Beyond the distortions of the findings of the National Reading Panel Report that undergird the new federal initiatives, there are other federal mandates, past and current, that have also impeded improving reading instruction - and worse, the public education system - through privatization, teacher disempowerment, and a systemic business model. In this timely and important book, nationally-recognized reading researcher Richard Allington tracks and questions the 30-year campaign that has focused on testing, accountability, and federalization of education. He and other educators, including Jim Cunningham, Michael Pressley, Elaine Garan, and Patrick Shannon, have contributed articles that provide an overview of past and recent federal education policies, including the NRP Report and associated legislation and policy making, with analyses of the premises of the new national reading plan. By showing how these premises are manufactured - that is, not reliably supported by the research - they explain why this plan is an unwarranted federal encroachment into local educational decision making.

Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence

Education & Teaching

Richard L. Allington

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers offers a clear blend of research and practice that teachers can use to develop better methods for helping children with reading difficulties.   Includes clear, non-technical summaries of research on the subject of children as proficient readers.   Research section on reading fluency that provides instructional models and methods for fostering fluency, including pause-prompt-praise, partner reading, taped read -alongs, impress method, choral reading, and fluency charting.   Research section that studies the effects of enhancing access to appropriate books and offers suggestions for designing schools where all children have books that are appropriate. In What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, nationally recognized scholar Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles: Children need to read a great deal to become proficient readers, offering summaries of research on the subject, the text shows how to monitor the amount of reading and create interventions that expand reading activity. Children need access to appropriate books, exploring the research on the subject, the text contains suggestions for designing schools where books are available and appropriate for all children. Children need to develop fluent reading to become proficient readers, reviewing the research on reading fluency, the text provides instructional models and methods for fostering fluency.  Richard L. Allington  is the Fien Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for his "contributions to the better understanding of reading and learning disabilities". Dick is also a past president of the National Reading Conference and has been elected to membership in the Reading Hall of Fame.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers : Designing Research-Based Programs

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Bt Bound

Sing and Dance

Ronald L. Cramer

Scott,Foresman and Company

Book by Richard L. Allington, Scott, Foresman and Company

I Can (Focus - Reading for Success, Independent Practice Book)

Scott, Foresman

Friends in a beginning reader by Scott Foresman, Level 2A.

Friends (Scott, Foresman Reading: An American Tradition, Level 2A)

This book is suitable for age 6-7 (first grade). A good variety of stories that appeal to kids make up the text. The book is divided into three sections (Helping Out, Good Days and Here Come the Animals), and instructions for activities that enhance the reading experience are provided. The authors have also made efforts to make the book politically correct, as the characters are of a varied backgrounds.

Hop, Skip, and Jump

Harpercollins College Div

Wheels and Rockets

Robert J. Tierney

Patrica M. Cunningham

G. Yvonne Perez

Constane Frazier Robinson

Whistles and Dreams (Focus Reading For Success Workbook, Level 6)

Teaching resource to help kids learn about what they do at school.

Work and Play (Focus)

Children's Books

School reader from the Focus Reading for Success series. Number 2/2, Level 6.

Whistles and Dreams 2/2 (FOCUS Reading for Success)

Scott, Foresman Co.

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