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Best Evidence Encyclopedia
Website created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) providing information about the evidence supporting various programs.
Get Resource Dyslexia Help: Reading Program Components
University of Michigan website providing information on the specific components included in several reading programs developed for use with students with Dyslexia.
Get Resource Evaluation of Guided Reading vs. Explicit Interventions
Research study that found an explicit intervention in phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, and comprehension demonstrated stronger impacts on student reading than did a Guided Reading intervention.
Get Resource "Guessing: Why the Reading Wars Won't End" (Letter printed in the Washington Post)
Letter signed by 41 reading researchers, scientists, and academics who support effective, scientificially-based reading instruction. Provides insights into the lack of teacher preparation in early reading instruction. Also discusses the lack of research behind teaching students to guess at words when reading.
Get Resource Guessing Words from Context is Not Reading
Paper that concisely explains why teaching students to guess at words when reading is a terrible strategy. Written by an award-winning reading teacher and interventionist in Australia.
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