June 2 Morning

June 2 Morning

"The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask."
~Rick Ridgeway

In the News
The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon?:
http://www.districtadministration.com/newssummary.aspx?news_date=2006-09-07&news_id=11757#top
Kids as young as 6 are tested, and tested again, to ensure they're making sufficient progress.

Information Sites
National Center for Educational Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/index.asp

NYSUT: http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/index.htm

Pioneers in Reading
Austin, Mary C.
Bakhtin, Mikahail
Bartlett, Frederick C.
Bandura, Albert
*Observational learning, social cognitive theory, self-efficacy & self esteem
Banjamin, Walter
Betts, Emmett A.
*Betts delt with remediation and articulated a framework for reading lessons that still influences instruction: Three reading levels: Independent Level, Instructional Level, Frustrating Level
Bloomfield, Leonard
Bond, Gay
Burrows, Alvina T.
Buswell, Guy T.
*Buswell pioneered the study of eye movement and extended the study of reading to include adults. He recognized the need for reading instruction to be available to adults, thereby providing precursors to current concerns about adult literacy.
Cattell, James McKeen
Clay, Marie
*Emergent literacy, running records and concepts about print assessments, founder of Reading Recovery
Dale, Edgar
Davis, Fredrick
Dearborn, Walter F.
Dewey, Evelyn
Dewey, John
*Dewey discovered the broad educatinal contexts in which beneficial attention can be given to reading instruction: connection of school and society, integrating curriculum, relate real-life knowledge to what is taught in the classroom, teacher as facilitator. He believed there should be a connection between the child and the curriculum.
Dolch, Edward W.
Dollard, J.
Durrell, Donald D.
Fernald, Grace M.
Gann, E.
Gans, Roma
Gardiner, E.
Gates, Arthur L.
*Gates enjoyed a long, prolific career that probed various aspects of reading theory and practice, ranging from testing to early development of reading ot psychological influences on reding to spelling.
Gray, Clarence Truman
Gray, William S.
*Gray, in a productive career that spanned more that four decades, extended both theory and practice related to testing, phonics, construction of reading materials and programs, relationships of reading to other areas of the curriculum, readability, maturity in reading, and reading instruction in secondary schools.
Hall, G. Stanley
* Child development movement, child goes through stages
Harris, Albert J.
Harrison, M. L.
Hatfield, W.
Hildreth, Gertrude H.
Horn, Ernest V.
Huey, Edmund B.
*Huey explord and articulated psychological influences on reading comprehension and in doing so demonstrated that a single work can have a pervasive influence on a professional field of inquiry.
Jacobs, Leland
Judd, Charles H.
Killgallon, P. A.
Kirk, Samuel
Kopel, David
LaBrant, Lou
Lamoreaux, Lillian Amick
Lazar, May
Leary, Bernice E.
Loban, Walter D.
Lorge, Irving
Luther, Martin
Mann, Horace
* "Father of American Education", started public school districts, started public free libraries
McGuffy, William Holmes
McKee, Paul
Miller, W.
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague
Monroe, Marion
Maria Montessori
*Free exploration, child directed, Planes of Development (3-6) (7-12), let the student teach you how to teach them, created "real-life" environments
Orton, Samuel Torrey
* founder of Orton Gillingham Approach, a multi-sensory connection to language development
Parker, Francis
Piaget, Jean
Pratt, Caroline
* Created basic wooden unit blocks, open-ended materials, education as a social process
Ramsey, Eloise
Rice, Joseph Mayer
Richards, I. A.
Robinson, Helen M.
Rosenblatt, Louise M.
*Rosenblatt contributed to reader response theory for nearly six decades.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Routman, Regie
*Incorporating more into whole language
Russell, David H.
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Dora
Smith, Nila Banton
Strang, Ruth M.
Strickland, Ruth G.
Thorndike, Edward L.
*Thorndike investigated the links between reading and reeasoning, developing measures of ability and achievement in reading as well as related theories of cognition.
Thorndike, Robert
Vernon, Magdalen Dorothea
Volosinov. V.
Vygotsky, Lev S.
* Zone of proximal development-gap between what a child can learn unaided verses what they can learn with the help of an adult or peer, believed in collaboration and social interaction, play provided the foundation for a child to develop skills
Waples, Douglas
Whipple, Gertrude M.
Witty, Paul

APA Formatting
APA Citation Style: http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm

APA Style Resources: http://www.psywww.com/resource/apacrib.htm

Landmark Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/

SourceAid: Create Bibliography with Citation Builder: http://www.sourceaid.com/
Requires free registration.

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader: http://www.renlearn.com/ar/default.htm
To view a practice quiz, go to quizzes, Reading Practice Quizzes.

Accelerated Reader: http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/bibs/accl-rdr.html

Accelerated Reader: http://www.catawba.k12.nc.us/schoolpages/riverbend/AR/ARindex.html
From River Bend Middle School

Accelerated Reader Bulletin Board: http://www.gardenofpraise.com/bul42.htm

Accelerated Reader Cheat Sheet: http://tsc.k12.in.us/ci/workshop/AR/ARCheatSheet512.PDF

Accelerated Reader for Middle School Teachers listserv: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ar4middleschool/
This group is designed specifically for sharing original tests, strategies, concerns, questions, successes, and other items relating to students in grades 6-8 who use the Accelerated Reading program.

Accelerated Reader - New Research: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/whatsnu_ar.html

Accelerated Reader: http://mainst.monterey.k12.ca.us/library/libpg/ARpage.htm
From Soledad Unified School District

Advantage Learning Gives You a Break - Accelerated Reader: http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/manage/advantage.html

Certifications: http://www.wcs.edu/pes/ar/ar.htm
Accelerated Reader book list at one school.

The File Cabinet From Laura Candler-Accelerated Reader: http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/ar.htm

NCTE-Reading Program-Accelerated Reader: http://www.ncte.org/elem/topics/reading/109879.htm

Readers are Leaders: http://www.highland.mccsc.edu/ar.htm

Valley Heights Mustang Library: http://library.valleyheights.org/acc.htm

What Is The Accelerated Reader?: http://www.readingonline.org/critical/topping/rolarD.html

Scholastic Reading Counts
Reading for Highest Student Achievement: http://www.cls.pcslearn.org/ideas/pdf/readBrochure.pdf
Explains Lexiles and Reading Counts
From the school board of Pinellas County, Florida

Scholastic Reading Counts: http://src.scholastic.com/ecatalog/readingcounts/index.htm

Battle of the Books
Battle of the Books and More: Reading Activities for Middle School Students by Sybilla Cook, Fraces Corcoran & Beverley Fonnesbeck.
I like this book because it is very practical. It has alternate book report ideas, ideas for classroom, and school wide reading related competitions, and ideas for using the Internet to enhance reading. The majority of the book describes in detail how to set up a Battle of the Books competition in a school. Battle of the Books is a game show type competition that can be done between classes or within a classroom. Students read books, form teams, and then answer questions about the books they have read. They try to have their team answer the most questions and thus win.

2006-2007 Battle of the Books: http://www.akla.org/akasl/bb/bbhome.html

Battle of the Books: http://www.battleofthebooks.org/

Other Reading Incentive Programs
Bookadventure.com: http://bookadventure.com/index.asp
Bookadventure is a free online reading motivation program for grades K-8. You can view a sample quiz at this site.

Bookit: http://www.bookitprogram.com/
Sponsored by Pizza Hut

Read Across America: http://www.nea.org/readacross/
Sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA)

What are the negatives associated with the incentive programs?:
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_chpt5_p4.html
You can click on Chapters at the top of the page and read the rest of the book online.

Additional Helpful Sites
Education Reform Network: http://www.edreform.net/

Study Guides and Strategies: http://www.studygs.net/
Joe Landsberger at St. Thomas Univ. (Minnesota, US) has for several years been building this site. One of its interesting features is that the material is available in several languages.

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch. This page was last updated on May 5, 2007 .
Email to studyplans@yahoo.com.