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Reading Readiness
the point at which a person is ready to learn to read and the time during which a person transitions from being a non-reader into a reader. -
Schema Theory
Schema theory focuses on the role old knowledge plays in acquiring new knowledge. -
The reading comprehension test
This comprehension test was designed to determine the skills involved in reading comprehension that are deemed most important by authorities. -
Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It
The classic book on phonics--the method of teaching recommended by the U.S. Department of Education. -
Montessori
the literacy process should be based on skills. Small kids get started with learning sounds and letters through eye-hand work, concentration on practical activities as well as when they touch and recognize materials of various shape and size. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Offered new grants to districts serving low-income students, federal grants for textbooks and library books. -
Piaget-Cognitive Development
Stages of cognitive development used by literacy educators. -
National Literacy Act
To enhance the literacy and basic skills of adults, to ensure that all adults in the United States acquire the basic skills necessary to function effectively and achieve the greatest possible opportunity in their work and in their lives, -
Balanced Comprehensive Approach
States no single method or single combination of methods can teach all children to read. -
Reading Excellence Act
Provides competitive grants to states to improve reading skills of students and the instructional practices of teachers of reading. -
National Reading Panel
Panel with the stated aim of assessing the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read and comprehend -
No Child Left Behind Act
The law held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved. Grants from the Federal Government. -
National Early Literacy Panel
Research on the development of early literacy skills in children ages zero to five -
Common Core Standards
Set learning goals that outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. -
Read to Succeed
Act 284, created to address literacy performance in South Carolina and put in place a comprehensive system to ensure SC students graduate on time with the literacy skills they need to be successful. -
Cites
GovTrack.us. (2020). H.R. 751 — 102nd Congress: National Literacy Act of 1991. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/hr751
U.S Department of Education.
Morrow, L. M. (2015). Literacy Development in the Early Years (7th ed.).
