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

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)