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No Child Left Behind Snapshot Background on the key elements and goals of the No Child Left Behind legislation |
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Scholastic Literacy Place and "Put Reading First" The research base of "Put Reading First" and the instructional approach of Scholastic Literacy Place are aligned |
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The Foundations of Reading
Identifies the five areas of reading highlighted in "Put Reading First"—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension
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Stages of Reading Development
Learn about Dr. Jean Chall's Stages of Reading Development and how they affect your reading instruction |
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Phonemic Awareness to Build Fluency
Get the basics on five types of phonemic awareness tasks: rhyme and alliteration, oddity tasks, oral blending, oral segmentation, and phonemic manipulation
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Phonics: A Scope and Sequence
Identifies an efficient, widely used scope and sequence for phonics instruction and explains why sequencing makes a difference in decoding |
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Effective Fluency-Building Instruction
Learn about the significant role of fluency in reading development and how it is dependent on strong foundational reading skills
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Modeled Fluent Reading Technique: Oral Recitation
Explains the importance of modeled fluent reading and the effectiveness of oral recitation as a technique |
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Vocabulary: Building Children's Oral Language
Describes techniques for building students' academic language orally through developing speaking vocabularies and listening skills
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The Building Blocks of Comprehension
Why developing students' decoding, fluency, vocabulary, strategic reading, and writing skills are essential for deepening reading comprehension
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