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Articles and NewsWe encourage you to read and share the following articles. Read On parents and educators have found these materials to be extremely helpful in understanding and addressing the needs of kids with dyslexia. "What Education Schools Aren’t Teaching about Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren’t Learning," Kate Walsh, Deborah Glaser and Danielle Dunne Wilcox, National Council on Teacher Quality, May 2006. "In this study, the National Council on Teacher Quality makes a unique effort to learn what aspiring teachers are taught about reading instruction. From a randomly selected, representative sample of 72 education schools, NCTQ reviewed 223 required reading courses, including evaluations of syllabi as well as 227 required reading texts. Schools were scored on how well their courses presented the core components of the science of reading. The findings are alarming. Only 15 percent of the education schools provide future teachers with minimal exposure to the science. Moreover, course syllabi reveal a tendency to dismiss the scientific research in reading, continuing to espouse approaches to reading that will not serve up to 40 percent of all children. Course texts were equally disappointing. Only four of the 227 texts were rated as "acceptable" for use as a general, comprehensive textbook. This distressing trend in teacher training demands attention from federal and state governments, professional organizations dedicated to improving and supporting education schools, textbook publishers, and educations schools themselves. The report closes with recommendations to ameliorate this serious failure in adequately preparing teachers in the best practices of reading instruction. The Hidden Disability: When Bright Children Struggle to Learn. Northwest Education Magazine, Spring 2003, Volume 8, Number 3. http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/08-03/. The entire issue is dedicated to dyslexia and related learning problems. All the articles are great. Read On especially recommends Lee Sherman’s interviews with Kay Kaplan, "Letting Kid's Gifts Shine Through," and Dr. Virginia Berninger, "Revealing the Secrets of the Brain." Should My Child Be Evaluated for Dyslexia? Dr. Sally Shaywitz, an exerpt from Overcoming Dyslexia, on GreatSchools.net http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/2733 Ten Years of Brain Imaging Research Shows the Brain Reads Sound By Sound by the Child development Institute, http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/brain.shtml Overcoming Dyslexia Fortune Magazine,May 13, 2002 By Betsy Morris http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/05/13/322876/index.htm The New Science of Dyslexia Time Magazine, Monday July 28, 2003, By Christine Gorman. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005284,00.html A Look at Dysgraphia Ann Wang, T560 Project One, March 2005, www.peas-ink.com/ann/folio/hgse/t560/dysgraphia/intro.htm Why Education Experts Resist Effective Practices(And What It Would Take to Make Education More Like Medicine), by Douglas Carnine Carnine compares the current state of the education field with medicine and other professions in the early part of the 20th century, and suggests that education will undergo its transformation to a full profession only when outside pressures force it to. View Ridge Elementary SummaryStudents at View Ridge receive 90 – 120 minutes of reading instruction each day. During this reading block students participate in a program called “Walk to Read” which groups students according to ability. Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science:What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do In this exhaustive prescriptive, the American Federation of Teachers calls for an immediate change of course in the practice of teaching reading and calls for university and college teaching programs to adopt research-based phonemic awareness methodology in training current and future teachers of reading. Read entire articleNational Reading Panel. Teaching Children to Read:An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications
for Reading Instruction In the largest, most comprehensive evidenced-based review ever conducted of research on how children learn reading, a Congressionally mandated independent panel has concluded effective reading instruction includes teaching children phonemic awareness. The Twice Exceptional Dilemma(National Education Association - NEA, 2006) www.nea.org/specialed This article documents the serious dilemma facing children who are cognitively gifted and have a learning disability, such as dyslexia. These children represent about 6% of the total school-aged population, yet they are often never identified as gifted or learning disabled because their gifts and disabilities mask one another. The result is devastating. The frustration they experience in school often leads to social, emotional and behavioral problems. The report addresses the need within the public school system for identifying these kids and providing the intervention that will unlock their trapped potential. How Words Cast Their SpellSpelling is an Integral Part of Learning the Language, Not a Matter of Memorization by R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suanne Carreker, and Louisa C. Moats. American Educator, Winter 2008-2009 This research article explains the high correlation between spelling, reading comprehension and writing. It demonstrates, with clear examples, the best method for teaching children to master the use of language by teaching them thorough knowledge of the spelling/language code. The authors compare and contrast this research-based effective method with the most common current practice for teaching spelling -- rote memorization. |