Focus on beginning readers
The International Reading Association offers a collection of resources to help you start young children along the path to literacy and a lifelong love of reading. For more information, go to: http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/focus_beginning.html
All about print awareness
Print awareness is a child's earliest understanding about written language. Here are guidelines from Reading Rockets for how to promote print awareness and sample activities for assessing print awareness in young children. For more information, go to: http://readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/printawareness
Reading 101: Comprehension
Good readers are both purposeful and active, but those who struggle with comprehension aren't really reading at all. In this section you'll find information to help students improve their text comprehension skills. For more information, go to: http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/comprehension
Educating educators about reading development
Renowned researcher Catherine Snow and her colleagues recently published a new book, Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading. In an interview about the book, Professor Snow describes what teachers need to know about literacy and what that means for veteran and novice teachers. For more information, go to: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/news/2005/1201_snow.html
Working with multi-risk families
Your first phone call and visit set the stage for your work with each child and family. To work effectively with families facing multiple challenges, you may need to adapt your intervention approach to make it easier for them to receive services. Sarah Landy and Rosanne Menna, in their new book, Early Intervention with Multi-Risk Families, offer specific tips for using these contacts to start off right with each family. For more information, go to:
http://www.brookespublishing.com/newsletters/ec-article-0406.htm
NAEYC National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development
NAEYC’s annual institute for early childhood professionals will be held in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, June 4 - Wednesday, June 7, 2006. For more information, go to: http://www.naeyc.org/conferences/institute/
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