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Where We Stand: K-12 Literacy (Adobe pdf)
This booklet contains the resolutions on Beginning Reading Instruction and Adolescent Literacy. Also included are a Q&A section, background information and additional reading. 31 pages. Item no. 39-0231. $3 each (April 2007).
Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do (Adobe pdf, graphics removed for easy downloading, 319k)
Thanks to new scientific research—plus a long-awaited scientific and political consensus around reading research—the knowledge exists to teach all but a handful of severely disabled children to read well. This report discusses the current state of teacher preparation in reading. It reviews the relevant research and describes the knowledge base that is essential for teacher candidates and practicing teachers to master if they are to be successful in teaching all children to read well. 32 pages. Item no. 39-0372. $5 each; $3 each for orders of five or more (June 1999/Reprinted March 2004). Also available: Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science, full graphic version (1.26mb).
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