Search Site:  By Susan Darst Williams Parental Involvement Ages & Stages Coaching Your Child Discipline & Safety Health, Nutrition & Fitness Homework Helpers Reading Writing Math Curriculum & Instruction Teachers & Teaching Other School Staff Testing Technology Special Learners School Management Finance & Taxation Government & Politics Preschool Private Schools Homeschooling Choice & Charters Learning on the Go Community Involvement Controversies Education Heroes Bright Ideas for Change Site Map Mini-Grants Parental Involvement Lite Parents, Kids & Books Great Books for Kids Character Education Writing Tips Inspiration Wacky Protests School Humor Home | Purpose | Ask A Question | Subscribe | Forward | Bio | Contact | Print Reading OVERVIEW       ------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION: How Kids Learn to Read Today       Why Reading Skills Are Declining Brain Research       Implications For Reading First Grade Is the Deadline       If a Child's Not Decoding Well at Age 8, Pull Out All the Stops to Fix That Book Review: 'Readicide' by Kelly Gallagher       How Schools Are Killing Reading, and What You Can Do About It READING SKILLS       ------------------------------------------ The Big Five in Reading       Especially for Parents of Preschoolers: Can You Name the Five Foundational Skills? Phonemic Awareness       How Do We Read, Write, Speak and Understand? Using Sound! Fluency Problems: Why Kids Read Aloud in a Monotone       What Parents and Educators Can Do to Put the Music Back in Language WHOLE LANGUAGE       ------------------------------------------ The Whole Language Reading Philosophy       There's No Doubt Veteran Readers Can Scan Text Rapidly and Still Understand It, But Don't Beginners Need to Learn the Ropes of Our Language First? PHONICS       ------------------------------------------ Systematic, Intensive, Explicit Phonics       The Cadillac of Reading Instruction, But Hardly Anybody's Getting It Any More How to Tell If Your School Uses Phonics Properly       And What to Do If It Doesn't READING DISABILITIES       ------------------------------------------ Kids Don't Reads As Much Today -- So What?       Here's What, and It Isn't Pretty Poverty and Reading       A Call For an End to 'Educational Apartheid' TEXTBOOKS       ------------------------------------------ Getting the Reading Curriculum That Works       The No. 1 Way to Help Your School Improve The Textbook Adoption Process       How a Few States Influence Us All Core Knowledge       Textbooks That Cover What Parents Want Taught TEACHER TRAINING       ------------------------------------------ Have the Pro's Messed Up Reading Instruction?       What Ever Happened to Easy, Cheap and Tried-and-True Methods? READING LISTS       ------------------------------------------ Good Books For K-6       A Young Child Should Read At Least One Book a Week Outside of Class: You Can If You Plan Good Books For Grades 7-12       To Be Better Prepared for College Admissions Tests, Not to Mention Real Life, Here Are the Books to Feed Your Heart, Soul and Mind FAMILY READING       ------------------------------------------ How to Guide Children to Great Books       It's Like Getting Them to Eat Fruit and Veggies Instead of Candy: Takes a Little Effort, But It's Well Worth It Building a Home Library Martin Luther King Would Like       Marking the MLK Holiday By Buying a Book a Year SUCCESS STORIES       ------------------------------------------ Two-Week Reading Remediation Success       If Only Schools Would Use These Simple Practices in the Early Grades Low-Income Parents Have More Power Than Teachers in Coaching Early Literacy       Preschools and Early Primary Schools That Focus on At-Home Literacy Help Low-Income Readers Most ^ return to top ^ Individuals: read and share these features freely! Publications: please contact ShowandTellforParents.com to arrange for reprint rights to these copyrighted news stories and features. Mini-Grants  Links to Learn More   Enrichment Ideas   Nebraska Schooling   Humor Blog   Glimpses of God  Copyright © 2010 ShowandTellforParents.com Website created by Web Solutions Omaha