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|  What Works: Beginning Reading                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Reviews of programs, products, practices, and policies intended to increase skills in alphabetics, reading fluency, comprehension, or general reading achievement for students in grades K-3GO >                                                                                        |
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|  Early Reading First                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Program to ensure that all children enter kindergarten with the language, cognitive, and early reading skills needed for success in school.GO >                                                                                                                                         |
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|  Reading First                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Program to help states and school districts establish high-quality reading instruction in kindergarten through grade 3.GO >                                                                                                                                                             |
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|  National Institute for Literacy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Information on research, practices, and policies aimed at improving reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.GO >                                                                                                                                                            |
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|  Teaching Materials from ED Summer Workshops                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Instructional materials from teachers' presentations on monitoring reading, building fluency, comprehension, teaching Chinese, reading intervention in secondary schools, writing in content areas, English language learners, and more. (2006)GO >                                     |
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|  Improving Adolescent Literacy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Five recommendations to improve literacy among adolescents in the upper elementary, middle, and high school grades.GO >                                                                                                                                                                 |
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|  Book Donation Campaign                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ED, First Book, and U.S. book publishing companies are working together to provide free books to schools, libraries, and literacy organizations serving low-income youth, especially in high-need communities.GO >                                                                      |
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|  Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| National Research Council report on the education of children ages 2-5. Suggests ways to improve early childhood education in preschool programs, child care centers, and other settings.GO >                                                                                           |
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|  Early Reading and Scientifically-Based Research                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| A presentation from the February 2003 National Title I Directors' Conference.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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|  Early Development and Learning National Center                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Research and resources related to the cognitive, social, and emotional development of children (birth-8).GO >                                                                                                                                                                           |
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|  National Reading Panel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Publications from a panel formed, at the request of Congress (1997), to assess different approaches used to teach children to read.GO >                                                                                                                                                 |
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|  Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Landmark report on the process of learning to read, predictors of reading success and failure, preventing difficulties before kindergarten, instructional and organizational strategies, helping children with reading difficulties, and recommendations for practice and research.GO > |
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|  Research Center on Early Reading (CIERA)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Research and resources for improving efforts to teach all children to read.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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|  Publications                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| How to help children become strong readers, what to look for in early reading programs, and more.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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|  Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| How children learn to read and how adults can help.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
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|  Teaching Children to Read                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| A 20-minute video highlights and brings the findings of evidence-based reading research to those with an interest in helping all people learn to read well.GO >                                                                                                                         |
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|  The Importance of High-Quality Reading Instruction                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Describes the knowledge base teachers need if they are to teach all children to read well.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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|  Guide for Preschool Teachers, Child Care and Family Providers                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| What can be done to help children to develop their language abilities, increase their knowledge, become familiar with books and other printed materials, learn letters and sounds, recognize numbers, and learn to count.GO >                                                           |
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|  Reading Report Card                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| What U.S. students know and can do in reading.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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|  Reading Assessment Framework                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Describes the content and test design for the 2009 national assessment in reading (NAEP).GO >                                                                                                                                                                                           |
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|  Teaching resources and lesson plans for language arts                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
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|  Additional Reading Organizations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Organizations that provide information or assistance.GO >                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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