Daily Archive for August 26th, 2008

Critique of RF impact study

Published on 26 August 2008 in Administration, News, Policy, Reading, Research and The press. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The Reading First Federal Advisory Committee has prepared a document entitled “Response to the Reading First Impact Study Interim Report” and has sent it to US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. It should be appearing in the next few days for public download on the Web page that reports the committee’s actions.

This is the report that I described in a post last May and about which I had another post 5 May.

Reminder: I am a member of the Reading First federal advisory committee. I am not, however, speaking for the committee, my fellow panelists, nor the US Department of Education here. Note, however, that the committee publicly endorsed this document in a meeting held last week.

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WWC on adolescent literarcy

Published on 26 August 2008 in Administration, News, Reading, Research and The press. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

The US What Works Clearinghouse recently released a new publication summarizing research about teaching literacy skills to adolescents.

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) invites you to look at our newest practice guide, Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices.

This guide provides five specific recommendations to improve literacy among adolescents in the upper elementary, middle, and high school grades.

Designed for teachers and other personnel who have direct contact with students, the guide presents strategies that have the strongest research support and are appropriate for use with adolescents.

Even though I’m a bit wary of the WWC analyses these days, this document appears to have been reasonably thoughtfully done. Here’s a link to download the pdf of the document.

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New resource from IRIS Center

Published on 26 August 2008 in Administration, News and Reading. 0 Comments Tags: .

Here’s blurb about a new recource that’s available from the IRIS Center at Peabody:

The IRIS Center is pleased to announce the posting of a new STAR Legacy Module: PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6, a revision and expansion of the PALS section of The Reading Blues: Strategies to Help Upper-Elementary Students Move from Struggle to Success.

When Mrs. Nash, a fifth-grade teacher and recent transfer to Miller Elementary, learns that her new school’s reading scores have fallen below the proficient level, she begins the search for a research-validated approach through which to improve her students’ reading skills. Soon, Mrs. Nash discovers PALS, a peer-assisted learning strategy. Join Mrs. Nash as she learns how to implement PALS in her classroom. To view PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6, please go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pals26/chalcycle.htm.

As always, we encourage you to share all of our materials (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) with Your colleagues and students.

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