LibGuides: Teaching Reading (EDU 400/518): Teaching Resources

Reading Bear

Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs. After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz.

Reading in the News

Sold A Story
A podcast that has created buzz this summer about teaching kids how to read and how we may have been doing it all wrong.
Description about the podcast: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
Learning to read and explicit teaching

Related Books

Phonics and Word Study for the Teacher of Reading by Barbara J. Fox
Call Number: LB1573.3 .F69 2014
ISBN: 9780132838092
Publication Date: 2013-02-04
General knowledge and concepts -- Single-letter consonants -- Consonant digraphs and consonant blends -- Vowels -- A review of phonemes -- Onsets and rimes -- Syllable and accent patterns -- Morphemes, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and compound words
Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis for Teachers by Donald J. Leu; Charles K. Kinzer; Robert M. Wilson; Maryanne Hall
Call Number: LB1050.44 .W55 2012
ISBN: 9780132609647
Publication Date: 2011-01-20
This self-paced tutorial approach gives pre-service teachers practical information about phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis, and provides in-service teachers with a helpful approach to updating their knowledge, preparing for teacher certification, or studying for competency tests.
Phonics They Use by Patricia M. Cunningham
Call Number: LB1573.3 .C86 2013
ISBN: 9780132944090
Publication Date: 2012-07-13
A collection of practical activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics.
Comprehension Intervention by Stephanie Harvey; Anne Goudvis; Judy Wallis
Call Number: LB1050.45 .H368 2010
ISBN: 9780325031484
Publication Date: 2010-05-03
Created to follow each Toolkit lesson, the Comprehension Intervention small-group sessions narrow the instructional focus, concentrating on critical aspects of the Toolkit's lesson strategy to reinforce kids' understanding, step by step. -- from back cover.
Guided Comprehension for English Learners by Maureen McLaughlin; International Reading Association Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: PE1128 .A2 M423 2012
ISBN: 9780872078840
Publication Date: 2012-04-01
English learners and reading comprehension: what teachers need to know -- Reading comprehension for English learners -- The guided comprehension model for English learners -- Creating, organizing, and managing comprehension centers -- Organizing and managing comprehension routines -- Assessment in guided comprehension -- Leveled text: an essential resource for reading comprehension -- Animals of the past--animals of the present -- Favorite authors: Eve Bunting, Doreen Cronin, Gary Soto, and Gary Paulsen -- Biographical: the stories of our lives.
Empowering Struggling Readers by Leigh A. Hall; Leslie D. Burns; Elizabeth Carr Edwards
Call Number: LB1050.455 .H35 2011
ISBN: 1609180232
Publication Date: 2010-11-29
This book provides classroom tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers, even those who appear to have given up, and fostering their success.
Storytimes for Everyone! by Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting; Pamela Martin-Diaz
Call Number: Z718.3 .G565 2013
ISBN: 9780838911693
Publication Date: 2013-07-22
Sharing language through books, songs, fingerplays, puppets and other materials can help children develop a strong foundation for later reading success. The authors show storytime presenters how to bring all the elements together to create a storytime that is information and fun.
Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms by David E. Freeman; Yvonne S. Freeman
ISBN: 9780325002484
Publication Date: 2000-08-18