Recent software has been developed and validate to provide valuable assistance in developing phonemic awareness and related critical early reading skills. Reading Online from the International Reading Association Check the Reading Online site for interesting articles, links to useful sites, and useful reference information. This site at the University of Oregon provides ordering information on reading, spelling, math, and writing CBM assessments and much more. Dr. Mark Shinn is the principal investigator of this project. The Lexile Framework for Reading is an educational tool that links text and readers under a common metric without subjective evaluation.
Teachers can evaluate their curriculum based on each student's ability to comprehend the materials.
SAT9 results to parents and teachers will include a Lexile level for the first time this spring. A new publication called The California Reading Initiative and Special Education in California was just released by our state's department of education. The publication provides information on important issues related to the state Reading Initiative, its base of research, and its application to both general and special education. A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children. Two publications, A Compact for Reading Guide and the School-Home Links Reading Kit, are designed to help set reading goals and provide lessons and activities that allow children to accomplish these goals.