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Teaching Reading: A Balanced Approach for Today's Classrooms

Pamela Farris, Northern Illinois University
Carol Fuhler, Iowa State University
Maria Walther

Narrative and Poetry

Web Links

Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
(http://www.pampetty.com/warrenco.htm)

Dr. Pam Petty provides this comprehensive website of links, research, lessons, and resources for pre-service and in-service teachers.

Book Talks -- Quick and Simple
(http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/)

This site from Nancy Keane offers lists of authors, titles, links, and many tips for book talks.

Reading Comprehension Instructional Strategies
(http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/rdcompel.html)

These materials are intended to provide an introduction to reading comprehension instructional strategies for the elementary level. They were assembled from the World Wide Web, ERIC Database, and a variety of other bibliographic resources.

Text Comprehension Instruction
(http://novel.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1text.html)

The findings described in this document were drawn from the report of the National Reading Panel, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction--Reports of the Subgroups.

Effects of Two Types of Prereading Instruction
(http://ericae.net/ericdb/EJ425422.htm)

This article compares the effects of two prereading instructional treatments on students' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Indicates that the teacher- directed condition is more effective than the interactive condition at promoting comprehension, and that both treatment conditions are superior to no prereading instruction at all.

Integrating Reading and Writing for Students with Learning Disabilities
(http://www.cpt.fsu.edu/TREE/gleas95.html)

This 1995 article, published in Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Disabilities, 11, 91-108, was written by M.M. Gleason and published by Taylor & Fancis, Inc.

Hearing Impaired Children and Story Structure
(http://ericae.net/ericdb/EJ421178.htm)

This article by B.R. Schirmer and W.L. Bond examines whether intermediate level severely and profoundly hearing-impaired children can internalize story structure through nonexplicit instruction and then use this knowledge to understand narrative text. Finds that the instructional intervention is effective in providing these children with a conceptual framework for understanding the content of stories.

Poetry on the Internet
John MacDonald's "The Reading Web" (http://www.supercharge.org/reading/poetry.htm) Conventional Web Site Navigation Page and Supercharge.org offer this site of dozens of links to poetry for all ages and grades on the Internet.



Electronic Poetry Center Home Page (http://www.wings.buffalo.edu/epc)



Poetry Magazine (http://www.poetrymagazine.com)



Poets and Writers, Inc. (http://www.pw.org)



Aaron Shephard's Reader's Theatre Edition (http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html) This site has a bounty of scripts adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others including humor, fantasy, and retold tales form a variety of cultures. Copying, sharing, and performing the scripts are permitted for any educational, noncommercial purposes. The scripts are geared for grades 3-9.



Fairrosa Cyber Library (http://www.interport.net/~fairrosa/cl.authors) This site contains several direct links to web sites of authors and illustrators of children's books.



Index to Author and Illustrator Sites (http://falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/biochildhome.htm) Another site that teachers find useful because of its teaching resource files and curriculum resources.

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