Educators — Articles of Interest

Below are several articles of interest for educators:
 
NGA Center for Best Practices
Improving Children’s Reading Ability Through Volunteer Reading Tutoring Programs
Joseph K. Torgersen (1998)
Catch Them Before They Fall 
Louisa Moats (2006)
How Spelling Supports Reading
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Response to Intervention 
 
Wired.co.uk 
Q&A: The Unappreciated Benefits of Dyslexia
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/21/dyslexic-advantage
 
Education Week
Study: Third Grade Reading Predicts Later High School Graduation
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-
research/2011/04/the_disquieting_side_effect_of.html
 
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters
http://floridakidscount.fmhi.usf.edu/_assets/docs/pubs/Reading%20Report%
20Executive%20Summary.pdf
 
The following articles are found in:
American Educator, 2003, a Publication of the American Federation of Teachers.
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley
The Early Catastrophe
The 30 Million Word Gap
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge--of Words and the World 
Scientific Insights into the Fourth-Grade Slump and Stagnant Reading Comprehension
Jeanne S. Chall and Vicki A. Jacobs
Poor Children's Fourth-Grade Slump
 
Steven A. Stahl
Words Are Learned Incrementally Over Multiple Exposures
 
Andrew Biemiller
Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension
Nell K. Duke, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, and Ebony M. Roberts
Filling the Nonfiction Void
Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan
Taking Delight in Words
Using Oral Language To Build Young Children's Vocabularies
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