Although reading had long been a basic com-ponent of formal schooling in the United States, there was little concerted effort tomarry research knowledge and instructional practice until much later in the 20thcentury.

reading has periodically responded to internal and externalforces resulting in both gradual and dramatic transformations to the domain—transformations that have altered reading study and practice

Seasoned webmakers learn to design accessible online spaces, code web-sites, script programs, and support the open Web infrastructure.

The Web Literacy Map attempts not to merely understand, but to builda better Web

He was also asked how teach-ers could bring this into classrooms; how do teach-ers deal with students who learn openly on the Web?

tudents are often not provided with opportunities in school to practice the web literacies necessary to read, write, and participate on the web.

Activities with onset-rime manipulation

ow Many Syllables in a Name?

users of an alphabetic written systemrecord the smallest units of sound of their spokenlanguage in print

ome educators confuse the term phonemicawarenesswith the terms auditory discrimina-tion, phonetics, or phonicsand believe that anew label has been invented for an old idea

hese new technologies and media may well recruit forms of thinking, interacting, and valuing that are quite different from—and, again, more compelling and motivating than—those children find in today’s schools.

nteractive slot-and-filler activity centered around adding more and more descriptive and lexically explicit detail around a single topic.

He is at the beginning of an apprenticeship that some children don’t seriously start until the later grades, when the academic-like demands made on their reading, writing, and listening skills swamp them

There are many different varieties of English. Some of these are different dialects spoken in different regions of the country or by different sociocultural groups. Some of them are different varieties of language used by different occupations or for different specific purposes: for example, the language of bookies, lawyers, or video game players.

Children who must learn reading primarily as an instructed process in school are at an acute disadvantage. It would be like learning to cook or play video games via lectures or decontextualized skill-and-drill. Possible, maybe, but surely neither effective nor easy.

If most people learned to cook as well as they learn physics, whole cultures would starve.

Every human is built to learn a native language well; not everyone is built to learn physics well.

phonemic awareness” (the conscious awareness that oral words are composed of individual sounds), then on phonics (matching letters to sounds), then practice with fluent oral reading (reading out loud), then work on comprehension skills. Each stage is supposed to guarantee the next.

Poor children do it as well as rich, if they have access to the cards, games, or figures.

hey all had polysyllabic names

member of a particular social group have anything whatsoever to do with learning to read in school? Isn’t the whole purpose of public schooling to create a level playing field for all children?

children don’t get enough overt instruction on “phonics