Focus on Beginning Readers:
Recommended Reading Archives

Books

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A Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading Instruction: A Synthesis of Six Major U.S. Research Studies, by John Edwin Cowen

Facilitating Preschool Literacy, edited by Robin Campbell

Teaching Phonics Today, by Dorothy S. Strickland

Articles

The Reading Teacher regularly features articles of interest to those working with young readers. Click on a title below to view some highlights, or browse the journal for additional articles.

“Distinguished Educator: The role of literacy in early childhood education,” by Dorothy S. Strickland, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Susan B. Neuman, Kathleen Roskos, Judith A. Schickedanz, and Carol Vukelich (Sept. 2004; vol. 58, no. 1)

“Genres at home and at school: Bridging the known to the new,” by Nell K. Duke and Valerie Purcell-Gates (Sept. 2003; vol. 57, no. 1)  FREE!

“Supporting phonemic awareness development in the classroom,” by Hallie Kay Yopp and Ruth Helen Yopp (Oct. 2000; vol. 54, no. 2)  FREE!

Selections from Reading Research Quarterly, the field’s leading source of top-quality research:

“Ecological influences of the home and the child-care center on preschool-age children’s literacy development,” by Daniel J. Weigel et al. (April/May/June 2005; vol. 40, no. 2)

“A comparison of first graders’ reading with little books or literature-based basal anthologies,” by Shailaja Menon and Elfrieda H. Hiebert (Jan./Feb./March 2005; vol. 40, no. 1)

“The efficacy of electronic books in fostering kindergarten children’s emergent story understanding,” by Maria T. de Jong and Adriana G. Bus (Oct./Nov./Dec. 2004; vol. 39, no. 4)

Freely available at Reading Online, IRA’s e-journal:

“A Seuss-A-Bration: Literature celebrated computer style,” by Susan L. Jones (May 2005)

“Linking assessment and instruction via Web-based technology: A case study of a statewide early literacy initiative,” by Heather Partridge et al. (Nov. 2003)

“Shared reading correlates of early reading skills,” by Stephen Burgess (March 2002)

“Getting kindergartners started with technology: The story of one school,” by Jan Turbill (July 2001)

“A look at fifteen beginning readers: Voices from the Hispanic community,” by Marsha Grace (Dec. 2000)

“Creating connections, building constructions: Language, literacy, and play in early childhood,” by Kathleen Roskos (May 2000)