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Overview
This page includes research, reports, and resources related to academic success, academic literacy, teaching, and English Language Arts instruction.

Reports

  1. Parsing the Achievement Gap (ETS Report)
  2. ACT Report
  3. NCES Report: "What Happens in Classrooms?: Instructional Practices in Elementary and Secondary Schools 1994-95"
  4. CELA Report: "Excellence in English in Middle and High School: How Teachers' Professional Lives Support Student Achivement," by Judith Langer
  5. CELA Report: Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well," Judith Langer
  6. CELA Report: "Issues in the English Language Arts: A Survey of Teachers and State Coordinators," by Arthur N. Applebee
  7. CELA Report: "Literacy in the National Science and Mathamatics Standards: Communication and Reasoning"
  8. NWREL Report: The Six Traits of Effective Readers
  9. State Standards Documents (for all states)
  10. NEW: Kids & Media @ The New Millennium (Kaiser Family Foundation Report)
  11. NCITE Research Synthesis: Reading and Diverse Learners

Articles

  1. "Reading Happens in Your Mind Not Your Mouth: Teaching and Learning Academic Literacy in an Urban High School," by Cristine CzikoTeaching & Learning "Academic Literacy" in an Urban High School
  2. "Literacy Learning Cases as Catalyst for Secondary Content Teachers' Professional Development," by Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf
  3. "What Are We Thinking About When We Are Thinking About Computers?" by Sherry Turkle
  4. "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace," Sherry Turkle
  5. "Seeing Through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation," by Sherry Turkle
  6. "Children in the Digital Age," Kathryn C. Montgomery
  7. "Multimedia and Multiple Intelligence," Shirley Veenema and Howard Gardner
  8. WestEd Strategic Literacy Initiative
  9. "Literacy in the National Science and Mathamatics Standards: Communication and Reasoning" (CELA Report)
  10. Article: "Reading Happens in Your Mind Not Your Mouth: Teaching and Learning Academic Literacy in an Urban High School," by Cristine CzikoTeaching & Learning "Academic Literacy" in an Urban High School

Digital Documents

  1. Nathan Shedroff's "Taxonomy of Experience"
  2. Nathan Shedroff's "Taxonomy of the Senses"
  3. Nathan Shedroff's "Communications Matrix"
  4. "Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design," by Nathan Shedroff

Essential (and Free) Articles

  1. What Works in Classroom Instruction: The "Essential Nine"
  2. "Engaging Students in the Disciplines of English: What Are Successful Schools Doing?" by Arthur Applebee
Favorite Books About Teaching Reading Favorite Books About Teaching Writing Favorite Books About Teaching English
  1. Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques
  2. Reading for Understanding: The Reading Apprenticeship Guidebook
  3. Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
  4. I Read It, But I Just Don't Get It, Chris Tovani
  5. It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy
  6. The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program
  1. What a Writer Needs, Ralph Fletcher
  2. Writer's Inc.: A Student Handbook
  3. The Everyday Writer
  4. Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing
  5. Creating Writers: Linking Writing Instruction and Writing
  6. Blending Genre, Altering Style, Tom Romano
  1. The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Curriculum, Classroom, and the Profession
  2. With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students
  3. Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
  4. A Measure of Success: From Assignment to Assessment in English Language Arts
  5. The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
  6. Cultural Reflections: Critical Teaching and Learning i the English Classroom