Resources:

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/index.htm

Academic Exchange Quarterly, a peer-reviewed print journal, is 10 years old.  See the link for on-line reading of all articles published.

http://www.centeroninstruction.org/files/ResearchAndReason.html

Authors
Paula J. Stanovich and Keith E. Stanovich
University of Toronto

In the recent move toward standards-based reform in public education, many educational reform efforts require schools to demonstrate that they are achieving educational outcomes with students performing at a required level of achievement. Federal and state legislation, in particular, has codified this standards-based movement and tied funding and other incentives to student achievement.

At first, demonstrating student learning may seem like a simple task, but reflection reveals that it is a complex challenge requiring educators to use specific knowledge and skills. Standards-based reform has many curricular and instructional prerequisites. The curriculum must represent the most important knowledge, skills, and attributes that schools want their students to acquire because these learning outcomes will serve as the basis of assessment instruments

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/

The Partnership for Reading offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. The Partnership invites you to explore this site for information on the research, principles about reading instruction suggested by the research, and products for parents, teachers, administrators, and policy-makers.

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/litjrnl.htm

This is a link to all of the literacy journals that are beginning to carry their publications on-line. 

“Many publishers have begun to transform their publications into online versions to increase the timeliness of content and to enhance their issues with electronic resources and tools (ie. search functions, integrated audio clips, hypertext links, animations) available with online documents.”

http://www.sedl.org/reading/framework/glossary.html

Glossary of Reading Terms
Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework

The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) publishes an on-line resource for teachers--a glossary of terms!  The study of reading is a
science with roots in many domains; linguists study reading, psychologists study reading, educators study reading, even computer scientists are
studying reading. The process of reading has been dissected and examined from a variety of perspectives, and experts in the field have had to adopt
and modify terminology or generate new terminology to describe what their examinations have revealed.

http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/pfr/search.cgi

National Institute of Literacy:  Explore the evidence-based research on reading instruction using this database

This national website gives the reader a way to search by author or study any published material related to evidence-based reading instruction.

The National Child Care Information Center

http://www.nccic.org/poptopics/bookdist.html

From the US Dept of Heath and Human Services, the Administration for
Children and Families, comes this listing of Book Distribution Programs to
Support Early Literacy.  Excellent resource.

By Catherine Pagan

Brandon is on target to become a reader. But if he’d been in school seven years ago, he might well have been on track for special education instead. That’s because he started kindergarten showing clear signs of reading difficulties. An assessment found that he was having trouble with such tasks as identifying letters and recognizing or reproducing the initial sounds in spoken words. Most telling, he was making little or no progress after a few weeks in school. The school’s old approach wasn’t geared to dealing with reading problems quickly and systematically. A learning disability label and a referral to special education might have been the outcome for this bright
boy.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall04/prevention.htm

Authors: Lauren Resnick and Chris Zurawsky

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/spring05/resnick.htm

The last 15 years have witnessed a profound sea-change in American
education. Labeled “standards-based education,” the shift has involved
important changes in the basic mode of operation of our schools and has
greatly affected the lives of teachers and other educators. In American
Educator, Spring 2005 issue.

Joseph K. Torgesen

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall04/reading.htm

Summary:  In “The American Educator”, Joe Torgeson summarizes the research
on prevention as a way to save children from reading failure. He writes:
“In this article, I want to lay out two sets of findings: (1) what we know
about the kind of instruction that weak readers need in kindergarten through
second grade to prevent them from ever entering the downward spiral, and (2)
what we know about the effectiveness of interventions that make use of this
knowledge.”