Reading First

Important Links

• Child Development Institute
• Fact Sheet: Reading First
• National Reading Legislation: LINCS
• National Reading Panel (NRP): Teaching Children to Read
• No Child Left Behind Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce

Articles, Journals, and Research

• Assessment

  • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills

• Brain Research and Reading

  • 10 Years of Brain Imaging Research Shows The Brain Reads Sound By Sound
  • Brain Research and Reading
  • Functional Disruption in the Organization of the Brain for Reading in Dyslexia
  • Literacy, Emotions and the Brain
  • Research Shows Brains of Dyslexics Change as Reading Improves

• Phonemic Awareness

  • Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners
  • How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms
  • Phonemic Awareness Activities: EFL Playhouse
  • The Relationship Between Phonics and Phonemic Awareness

• Preventing Reading Difficulties

  • Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

• Reading Disabilities

  • Research Advances in Developmental Dyslexia
  • Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
  • The Current State of Science and the Future of Specific Reading Disability
  • The Neurobiology of Reading and Dyslexia

• Reading Instruction

  • Early Reading Development: An Online Course
  • Instruction in Early Reading: California Reading Initiative
  • Learning to Read: A Call From Research to Action: Lyon
  • Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks For Teaching Children to Read
  • Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
  • Teaching Children to Read
  • Topics in Early Reading Coherence
  • Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning to Read

Grants and Funding

• 21st Century Community Centers
• No Child Left Behind: U.S. Department of Education

Organizations

• Center for Development and Learning
• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA): Links Page
• Pathways to School Improvement
• Read by Grade 3.com
• Reading Rockets
• Sharing Success.org

Publications and Publishers

• Children's Books Central
• National Academy Press (NAP)
• NICHD Publications