Semester Two

Books

• Annual status of education report (Rural) 2010
• The National Literacy Strategy:the first four years 1998–2002
• Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
• Assessing reading: international perspectives on reading assessment
• Designing educational computer environment for children
• Children's cognitive development: Piaget's theory and the process approach
• Teach a child to read with children's books. Combining story reading, phonics, and writing to promote reading success Third edition.
• Solomon, Cynthia (1988) Computer Environments for Children A Reflection on Theories of Learning and Education

Papers

Reading and Writing

• An evaluation of Early Reading First (ERF) preschool enrichment on language and literacy skills
• Collaborative sense-making in print and digital text environments
• Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and phonemically based decoding skills as an intervention strategy for struggling readers in whole language classrooms
• Exploration of the contribution of teachers’ knowledge about reading to their students’ improvement in reading
• Using technology to assist in vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension
• Developing reading comprehension through collaborative learning
• Judith W. Irwin & William Farr (2004): Collaborative school communities that support teaching and learning, Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 20:4, 343-363.
• Reading Rescue: An Effective Tutoring Intervention Model for Language-Minority Students Who Are Struggling Readers in First Grade
• Littleton, Karen; Wood, Clare and Chera, Pav (2004). Reading Together: Computers and Collaboration. In: Littleton, Karen; Miell, Dorothy and Faulkner, Dorothy eds. Learning to Collaborate: Collaborating to Learn. New York: Nova, pp. 31–47.
• Animated multimedia 'talking books' can promote phonological awareness in children beginning to read
• Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading
• Coiro, J. (2003, February). Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies [Exploring Literacy on the Internet department]. The Reading Teacher, 56(6). Available: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/RT/2-03_column/index.html
• A Collaborative Effort to Enhance Reading and Writing Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms

Collaborative learning

• What do you mean by collaborative learning?
• The evolution of research on collaborative learning
• Collaborative learning enhances critical thinking
• Collaborative Learning: Some Practical Models
• Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: An Empirical Evaluation

Reading Queue

From http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/rt/RTindex.html

• The CTELL Project: New Ways Technology Can Help Educate Tomorrow’s Reading Teachers by William H. Teale, Donald J. Leu, Jr., Linda D. Labbo, and Chuck Kinzer (published and posted April 2002)
• Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published and posted February 2002)
• Internet Project: Preparing Students for New Literacies in a Global Village by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published and posted March 2001)
• Using the Internet and Children's Literature to Support Interdisciplinary Instruction by Rachel A. Karchmer (published and posted September 2000)
• To See One Another More Clearly: A Pacific Children's Literature Web Project by Bridget Dalton (published May 2000; updated and posted December 2000)
• Our Children's Future: Changing the Focus of Literacy and Literacy Instruction by Donald J.Leu (published in February 2000; updated and posted in ROL March 2000)
• Electronic Collaboration: Children's Literature in the Classroom by Denise Johnson (published and posted September 1999)
• The Miss Rumphius Effect: Envisionments for Literacy and Learning That Transform the Internet by Donald J. Leu, Jr., Rachel A. Karchmer, and Deborah Diadiun Leu (published and posted March 1999)
• Beyond Classroom Boundaries: Constructivist Teaching with the Internet by Amelia E. El-Hindi (published RT May 1998; updated and posted ROL June 1999)
• Just Beyond the Horizon: Writing-Centered Literacy Activities for Traditional and Electronic Contexts by Patrick V. Iannone (published RT February 1998; updated and posted ROL June 1999)
• Caity's Question: Literacy as Deixis on the Internet by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published RT September 1997; updated and posted ROL July 1999)
• Sarah's Secret: Social Aspects of Literacy and Learning in a Digital Information Age by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published RT October 1996; updated and posted ROL July 1999)