Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed

Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed
Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed is "a textbook for classroom teachers and teaching students that presents teaching strategies for improving elementary schoolchildren's reading comprehension and literacy," writes Book News, Inc.

Ray Reutzel (early childhood education, Utah State U.) and Ray B. Cooter (reading and urban literacy education, U. of Texas at Arlington) "cover classroom reading and oral language assessment, children's concepts about print, phonemic awareness, phonics and word attack skills, teaching and assessing vocabulary development, story comprehension, developing research and reference skills, and literature response." The third edition of Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction provides a wealth of complementary and practical ideas for teachers who need to assess and address students' reading achievement. Each of the strategy-driven chapters moves from a set of theory-informed assessment tools to intervention strategies that will address students' reading needs.

IF-THEN charts present these strategies in an instantly applicable manner. Readers diagnose the specific problem their students are having, then immediately discover which of the chapter's strategies are most beneficial in assisting them. Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, and General Inservice teachers.

Open Education Search Project

Open Education Search Project

The O'Reilly Radar blog reports that ccLearn, Google, and the Hewlett Foundation are working together to build a search portal focused on open educational resources. Everyone interested in the OER field will certainly be following this new OE Search project closely. ____JH

"ccLearn is working with the Hewlett Foundation and Google to build an 'open education web-scale search,' part of a larger effort to offer web users simple, overarching mechanisms for discovering OERs. This tool aims to direct search engine traffic to the incredible diversity of OER repositories and communities. While such a tool would not replace the more specialized and sophisticated search sites and portals that the community already uses, we believe it would expose a much wider public to our community’s materials. This is also an opportunity to encourage OER adoption and specify legal and technical conditions for making educational resources openly available. We see this project as an important step for achieving large-scale access to and use of open educational resources. "

 

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L.A. third-grader basks in glow of a presidential moment

L.A. third-grader basks in glow of a presidential moment
Ethan Lopez, 8, is spotlighted by the media and cheered by his classmates for being selected by Obama to ask the final question at a town hall meeting.

Ethan Lopez became an instant celebrity at his Los Angeles elementary school Friday, the day after President Obama selected the 8-year-old to ask the final question at a town hall meeting. Media crews filmed the boy and his family while the school principal and teachers gushed over his question about teacher layoffs, and classmates cheered.