Reading Resource List

Consumer’s Guide to Evaluating Reading Curricula  http://reading.uoregon.edu/curricula/con_guide.php

Overview of 3-Tier Reading   http://www.texasreading.org

Printed Reading Resources by Big Idea

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness Activities:  For Early Reading Success (Blevins, 1997 – Scholastic)

Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills (Fitzpatrick, 1997 – Creative Teaching Press)

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children (Adams, Foorman, Lundberg, & Beeler, 1998)

Rhymes and Reasons: Literature and Language Play for Phonological Awareness (Opitz, 2000).

Sounds Abound: Listening, Rhyming and Reading (Catts, Olsen, 1993 – LinguiSystems)

Sound-Matching Sheets and Lessons that Build Phonemic Awareness (Wagstaff, 2001)

Sounds in Action: Phonological Awareness Activities and Assessment (Zgonc, 2000)

Take Home: Phonological Awareness (Robertson & Salter, 1998 – LinguiSystems)

Working Out with Phonological Awareness (Schreiber, 2000 – Thinking Publications)

Phonics

A Guide to Teaching Phonics (Orton, 1964 – Educators Publishing Services)

Angling for Words: Sentences for Dictation (Edlich, 1984 – Academic Therapy Publications)

Building Words: A Resource Manual for Teaching Word Analysis and Spelling Strategies (Gunning, 2001).

Exploring Word Families (Cernek, 2000 – Creative Teaching Presss)

From Phonics to Fluency (Rasinski & Padak, 2001)

Literature Based Mini Lessons to Teach Decoding and Word Recognition (Lunsford, 2000)

Phonics From A to Z: A Practical Guide (Blevins, 1998 – Scholastic)

Phonics Remedial Reading Lessons (Kirk, Kirk & Minskoff, 1985 – Academic Therapy Publications)

Phonological Awareness and Primary Phonics (Gunning, 2000)

Strategies for Word Identification: Phonics from a New Perspective (Fox, 1996)

Systematic Sequential Phonics They Use (Cunningham, 2000)

Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades (Blevins, 2001 – Scholastic)

Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding & Spelling Instruction (Henry, 2003)

Word Family Activity Book (Rosenberg, 2001 – Scholastic)

Word Families Through Literature (Carson-Dellosa, 1994)

Word Recognition Activities: Patterns and Strategies for Developing Fluency (Fox, 2003)

Words Their Way (Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnson, 2004)

Programs/Curricula – Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency:

Concept Phonics (Fischer – Oxton House Publishers 1-800-539-READ)

Headsprout Early Reading (www.headsprout.com)

Patterns for Success in Reading and Spelling: Multisensory Structured Language Orton Gillingham Program (Henry Redding, Pro-Ed, 1996)

Phonological Awareness Kit (Robertson & Salter – LinguiSystems)

Phonological Awareness Training for Reading (Torgeson & Bryant, 1994 – Pro-Ed)

Project Read – Language Circle – Phonology Kit (www.projectread.com)

Road to the Code (Blachmann, Ball, & Tangel, 2000 – Brookes Publishing)

Sing, Spell, Read & Write 2004 (Spanish counterpart)  (Pearson Learning Group – Modern Curriculum Press

Sounds Abound Program (Lenchner and Podhajski – LinguiSystems – 1-800-776-4332)

Sound Partners: A Tutoring Program in Phonics-Based Early Reading (www.sopriswest.com)

Stepping Stones to Literacy (www.sopriswest.com)

Wilson Reading System – multisensory structured language Orton-Gillingham program (Wilson, 1996)

Word Scramble: A Phonological Awareness and Word-Building Game (Johnson – LinguiSystems)

K-PALS and PALS (Mathes, Clancy-Menchetti, & Torgeson, 2001 - www.sopriswest.com)

Fluency:

Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success (Blevins, 2001 – Scholastic)

Fluency Lessons for the Overhead – Grades 2/3 (Sweeney, 2004 – Scholastic)

The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, & Comprehension (Raskinski, 2003 – Scholastic)

The Source for Reading Fluency (Swigert, 2003 – LuingiSystems)

Programs/Curricula – Fluency with Connected Text – Vocabulary – Comprehension:

Elements of Reading Fluency (Shanahan et al. – Harcourt Achieve 1-800-531-5015)

Great Leaps Reading Program (www.greatleaps.com  1877-GRLEAPS)

Quick Reads: A Research-Based Fluency Program (Modern Curriculum Press; Pearson Learning)

Read Naturally (www.readnaturally.com)

High Noon Books – Grade 2-5 interest levels; 1-2^nd grade readability, chapter books (www.highnoonbooks.com)

Steps to Success Series – all books follow Orton Gillingham approach; all short vowel stories (Vangar Publishers 304-728-2829)

The Alphabet Series: Bloom (K-3) – Educator’s Publishing Services

Flyleaf Publishing used with Fundations program: 800-449-7006 (www.flyleafpublishing.com)

High Frequency Readers: Decodable Readers; Phonics Readers; Bob Books (www.scholastic.com)

Primary Phonics and More Primary Phonics (www.epsbooks.com)

Sundance Phonics (www.sundancepub.com)

Software:

DaisyQuest and Daisy’s Castle (Pro-Ed)

Earobics (www.earobics.com)

Leap into Learning – beginning phonemic awareness and phonics skills (www.leapintolearning.com)

Read, Write and Type! (info@readwritetype.com  1-800-674-9126)

Soliloquy Reading Assistant (Adams et al. – www.soliloquylearning.com)

Scott Foresman Reading Fluency Coach (Speech recognition software programs grades 2-6)

Oral Language – Vocabulary/Comprehension:

Bringing Words to Life (Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2002)

Good-Bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies (Opitz & Rasinski, 1998)

Language and Reading Success: contains Living Word Vocabulary (Biemiller, 1999)

Snapshots: Literacy Minilessons Up Close (Hoyt, 2000 – Heinemann)

Teaching students to Read Nonfiction Grades 2-4 (Blevins & Boynton, 2004 – www.scholastic.com)

Teaching with Favorite Read-Alouds (Lunsford, 2004 – www.scholastic.com)

Vanilla Vocabulary: A Visualized/Verbalized Vocabulary book (Bell & Lindamood, 1997)

Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking (Bell, 1986)

Visualizing and Verbalizing Stories (Bell, 1997)

Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice (Baumann & Kame’enui, 2004)

Programs/Curricula for Oral Language – Vocabulary/Comprehension

Build a Sentence (Creative Teaching Associates/Lakeshore)

Building Language Photo Library (Spanish/English printed words – Lakeshore)

Comprehension Plus (Pearson Learning Group)

Elements of Reading Vocabulary (Beck & McKeown – Harcourt Achieve 1-800-531-5015)

50 Quick-Play Vocabulary Games (Johnson – LinguiSystems)

Language for Learning (There is an Espanol to English component – McGraw-Hill, SRA 1-888-772-4543 – www.sraonline.com)

Speaking and Listening to the English Language (box of photo library cards plus activity guide – www.sopriswest.com)

Comprehension and Vocabulary Strategies for the Primary Grades (Johns, Lenski, & Berglund, 2003 – www.kendallhunt.com)

Resources Covering All 5 Big Ideas

Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension (Ellery, 2005 – www.reading.org)

Improving Reading: Strategies and Resources (Johns & Lenski, 2005 – www.kendallhunt.com)