Research: Reading Instruction in Grades 1-3

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• Teaching Reading Well: A Synthesis of the International Reading Association's Research on Teacher Preparation for Reading Instruction
• Children's Story Retelling as a Literacy and Language Enhancement Strategy
• Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
• Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
• Drop Everything and Read — But How? For Students Who Are Not Yet Fluent, Silent Reading Is Not the Best Use of Classroom Time
• Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters
• English Language Learners: Boosting Academic Achievement
• Getting Ready for Reading: Early Phoneme Awareness and Phonics Teaching Improves Reading and Spelling in Inner-city Second Language Learners
• National Literacy Panel's Executive Summary
• Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does — and Does Not — Say
• Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners
• Technology for Developing Children's Language and Literacy: Bringing Speech Recognition to the Classroom
• What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners?