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Reading Resources Mary Barrett –Rochester Public Schools Updated September 2004

BEST SINGLE PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE

Reading for Understanding Toward an R & D Program in Reading Comprehension Rand Study Group Catherine Snow, Chair Prepared for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement RAND 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138 Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 [email protected] ISBN 0-8330-3105-8 Copyright 2002

This book is also available from the IRA and costs about $20.00. If you need a reference that gives a complete overview of the issues and needs in reading, this is a terrific book. The contents of the book are research-based and address reading comprehension in all schools, including high school. If you want information to use in establishing or maintaining a program, this book has the statistics and research that you will need to back up your request. If you don't know much about reading instruction and want a thorough introduction to teaching reading, this is an excellent place to begin. The book is widely acknowledged as the best source of information in print today.

GREAT BLACKLINE MASTERS For each of the following resources, you can buy the masters and then make copies to your heart's content for your own classroom.

Scholastic: 24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice by Michael Priestley Scholastic Professional Books 2931 East McCarty Street Jefferson City, MO 65102 www.hammetts.com

I bought two of these. Level 4-5 has an ISBN of 0-439-25609-7 and Level 6-8 has an ISBN of 0-439-25610-0. They cost $8.95 each where I bought them. You get nonfiction passages that are followed by anywhere from 3-8 questions. I purchased these at Classroom Connections, but the parent company is Hammetts so I have given you their web address. Reading Resource List – Barrett Page 2

Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? Blackline Masters – 2nd Edition by Rachel Billmeyer, Ph.D. and Mary Lee Barton, M.Ed. McRel 2550 S. Parker Road, Suite 500 Aurora Colorado 80014 I ordered this from ASCD for $15.00 (#397259; matching textbook #397258 for $27.95) 1-800-933-2723 or www.ascd.org

For $15.00 this may the best buy you can possibly make of all the materials listed in this document. The packet contains almost 90 blackline masters of graphic organizers and teaching strategies that could apply to most content areas. Sections include Vocabulary Development Strategies, Narrative Text Strategies, Informational Text Strategies, and Reflection Strategies. The authors have also included an Appendix and Bibliography of useful titles.

Three books go along with this: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If not me, then who? 2nd Edition by Rachel Billmeyer, and Mary Lee Barton McRel 2002 ISBN 1-893476-05-7 ASCD Stock Number 397258 - $27.95

Teaching Reading in Mathematics by Mary Lee Barton and Clare Heidema McRe l2002 ISBN 1-893476-04-9 ASCD Stock number 302053 - $22.95

Teaching Reading in Science by Mary Lee Barton and Deborah L. Jordan McRel 2001 ISBN 1-893476-03-0 ASCD Stock Number 302269 - $22.95

Time for Kids Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice by Andrea Trischitta Teacher Created Materials, Inc 6421 Industry Way Westminster, CA 92683 www.teachercreated.com www.hammetts.com

These come in levels 2 to 6, and the levels are roughly equivalent to grade equivalency. The books are wonderful in that they focus on comprehension first at a sentence level, then at a paragraph level, and finally at a whole text level. The books have multiple choice tests as well as graphic organizers and enrichments. They coordinate perfectly with the texts listed next. I paid $14.99 for volume 5, ISBN 0-7439-3512-8.

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Time for Kids Comprehension and Critical Thinking by Sarah Kartchner Clark

Almost all of the passages in this book match up with the text at the same level listed above. This book carries the questioning out to a critical level, so there is no duplication with the other text. If you want to work first on basic comprehension and then critical comprehension, this is a great pair of books. I paid $12.99 each for Level 5 (ISBN 0-7439-3375-3) and Level 6 (ISBN 0- 7439-3376-1)

TEXTBOOK MATERIALS FOR USE WITH STUDENTS

College Study Skills by James F. Shepherd Houghton Mifflin Company 1994 ISBN 0-395-67581-2

This text is an excellent source of study skills and general tips about being successful in school. One of the best chapters is about doing well on tests. Even though this book is labeled college level, it is very appropriate for high school kids.

Efficient Reading by James I. Brown and Vivian V. Fishco D. C. Heath and Company – Lexington, Massachusetts 1993 ISBN 0-669-29758-5 (I ended up calling the college division at 1-800-733-1717 to get a copy of this book. The only copy I could find is an old seventh edition; I think the newest one is the eighth, published in 1999.) The book was written by a U of M professor and focuses on increasing rate and comprehension in nonfiction as well as on vocabulary development. The selections are rated by Flesch Reading Ease score and rank from easy to very difficult. This book is appropriate for the best kids (I use it in Reading for College). The book is organized by thematic chapters containing sets of articles that represent all different reading levels.

The Elements of Clear Thinking Series by William F. McCart Educators Publishing Service, Inc. 31 Smith Place Cambridge, MA 02138-1000 1.800.225.5750 or www.epsbooks.com

Critical Reading – 1994 – ISBN 0-8388-5168-4 Sound Reasoning – 1997 – ISBN 0-8388-5169-2 Accurate Communication – 1997 – ISBN 0-8388-0167-6

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These three publications are short, workbook-style books that are suitable for teaching critical reading strategies in grades 9 to 12. They contain examples of a variety of types of text, and questions that follow focus student attention on all aspects of the writing. The books range in price from $8.30 to $11.70; the answer keys are priced separately. I would recommend that you buy all three though Sound Reasoning focuses on logic of reasoning. If you visit the website at www.epsbooks.com you can view sample pages of Critical Reading and Accurate Communication.

This book was specifically designed for helping Minnesota students pass the BST. It begins with test taking tips and a diagnostic reading test. Then you have 5 chapters (finding main idea, reading for details, patterns of ideas, and word meaning; inferences, conclusions, generalizations, and predictions; fact and opinion; and author's perspective. In each chapter you have articles followed by sample test items. The format and layout match the BST exactly, and that can help kids with test anxiety.

Reader's Handbook: Grade 4-5 ISBN 0-669-49009-1 Reader's Handbook: High School ISBN 0-669-49006-7

This book is an excellent text for middle school/junior high school students. It contains chapters on the reading process, reading textbooks, reading nonfiction, reading fiction, reading poetry, reading drama, reading on the internet, reading graphics, reading for tests, and improving vocabulary. The book is user-friendly and contains highlighting and margin notes to help students focus on the text being discussed. Plenty of activities and practices are included in the book, and there is an accompanying student applications book full of graphic organizers and practice articles. You can also purchase beautifully done overheads to use with your classes.

Versions for upper elementary and high school are also now available. Contact Jane Dalrymple ate [email protected] or 800-289-4490 (option 4).

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Reading Thresholds by Carolyn Fitzpatrick and Marybeth R. Ruscica D.C. Heath and Company – Lexington, Massachusetts 1993 ISBN 0-66902907-0

This book is a great source of materials for a developmental reading course, especially for courses with students who have not passed the basic standards test. Three of the best chapters are on main idea, details, and organization. The chapter I use most is the one on critical reading.

Speed Reading for Better Grades by Ward Cramer; Illustrated by Mike Gorman J. Weston Walch Publisher 321 Valley Street PO Box 658 Portland, Maine 04104-0658

ISBN 0-8250-3803-5 This workbook is excellent as a resource for helping students learn how to increase their speed while maintaining or improving their comprehension.

Timed Readings – Nonfiction by Edward Spargo 1989 Jamestown Publishers 1-800-USA-READ ISBN 0-89061-503-9 Each book contains 50 nonfiction articles that are 400 words long, followed by 10 comprehension questions. Book 1 is leveled at grade 4; book 10 is leveled at grade 13. Articles may be used for increasing rate as well as for comprehension.

Timed Readings Plus by Edward Spargo 1998 ISBN 0-89061-912-3 Each book contains 25 nonfiction articles that are 400 words long, followed by 10 comprehension questions. After the comprehension questions, you'll find a skill section that focuses on concepts such as inference or context clues. Book 1 is leveled at grade 4; book 10 is leveled at grade 13.

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Professional Library PRACTICAL TEACHER RESOURCE

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning - 2nd Edition by Doug Buehl International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org ISBN 0-87207-284-3 copyright 2001

Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners By Charlotte Rose Sadler International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org ISBN 0-87207-292-4

Content Area Literacy: An Integrated Approach 7th Edition by John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, R. Scott Baldwin Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 4050 Westmark Drive Dubuque, Iowa 52002 ISBN 0-7872-7648-0 Copyright 2000

Guiding Readers Through Text by Karen D. Wood, Diane Lapp, James Flood International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org

A Practical Approach to Content Area Reading by Richard P. Santeusanio (This is out of print, but you can request it at Amazon.com.) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Reading, Massachusetts ISBN 0-201-07407-9 Copyright 1983

Prereading Activities for Content Area Reading and Learning – 3rd Edition by John E. Readence, David W. Moore, Robert J. Rickelman International Reading Association 6 Reading Resource List – Barrett Page 7

Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms by Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia Greenleaf, Christine Cziko, Lori Hurwitz Jossey-Bass Publishers 350 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94104 www.josseybass.com ISBN 0-7879-5045-9 Copyright 1999

Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Collection of Teaching Strategies Edited by David W. Moore, Donna E. Alvermann, and Kathleen A. Hinchman International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org ISBN 0-87207-272-X

Teaching Reading in the Middle School – A Strategic Approach to Teaching Reading That Improves Comprehension and Thinking By Laura Robb Scholastic Professional Books 555 Broadway New York, NY 10012 ISBN 0-590-68560-0 Copyright 2000

When Kids Can’t Read – What Teachers Can Do A guide for teachers 6-12 by Kylene Beers Heinemann Greenwood Publishing Group PO Box 6926 Portsmouth, NH 03802-6926 800-22505800 www.greenwood.com or www.heinemann.com 7 Reading Resource List – Barrett Page 8

Professional Library TEACHER REFERENCE BOOKS http://wwwmnreading.org This is the MRA (Minnesota Reading Association) web site address and is absolutely the greatest resource. Thanks to Dick Pearl for reminding me of this!

Best Practice – New Standards for Teaching and Learning in American Schools – 2nd Edition by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, Arthur Hyde Heinemann A division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, NH 03801-3912 www.Heinemann.com ISBN 0-325-00091-3 Copyright 1998

Building a Knowledge Base in Reading Jane Braunger, Ed. D. and Jan Lewis, Ph.D. Northwest Regional Education Laboratory's Curriculum and Instructional Service 3rd Edition, June 1998 www.nwrel.org/psc/ci/ ISBN – none given. This book was published by the Dept. of Ed under contract #RJ96006501. Stock # 9118 (IRA) $12.95 Stock # 03871 (NCTE)

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Assessing Student Outcomes – ISBN 0-87120-225-5 A Handbook - ISBN 0-87120-522-X Research-Based Strategies – ISBN 0-87120-504-1 What Works in Schools – ISBN 0-87120-717-6 Association for Supervision and Curiculum Development 1703 N. Beauregard St. Alexandria, VA 22311-1714 1-800-933-2723 or www.ascd.org

Content Area Reading Vacca and Vacca – 7th Edition ISBN #0-321-08810-7 Allyn and Bacon

Copyright for Schools: A Practical Guide Carol Simpson Linworth Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1-58683-018-X 2001 Worthington, Ohio I purchased this from the International Reading Association.

I Read It, but I Don't Get It : Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani, Ellin Oliver Keene Stenhouse Publications Portland, Maine www.stenhouse.com ISBN 1-57110-089-1

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Qualitative Assessment of Text Difficulty By Jeanne S. Chall, Glenda L. Bissex, Sue S. Conard, and Susan Harris-Sharples Brookline Books PO Box 1047 Cambridge, MA 02238-1047 1-800-666-BOOK ISBN 1-57129-023-0 Copyright 1996

Reading Don't Fix No Chevys – Literacy in the Lives of Young Men by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm Heinemann 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801-3912 ISBN 0-86709-509-1 Copyright 2002

Reading For Meaning: Fostering Comprehension in the Middle Grades Edited by Barbara M. Taylor, Michael F. Graves, and Paul Van Den Broek Teachers College Press International Reading Association Columbia University 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 New York, NY 10027 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org ISBN 0-8077-3896-4 Copyright 2000

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Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom By Pauline Gibbons Heinemann Press 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, NH 03801-3912 www.heinemann.com ISBN 0325-00366-1 Copyright 2002

Scaffolding Reading Experiences: Designs for Student Success 2nd Edition by Michael Graves and Bonnie Graves Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. 1502 Providence Hwy., Suite 12 Norwood, MA 02062 800-934-8322 ISBN 1-929024-48-7 Copyright 2003

Starting Over – A Literacy Program: A Combined Teaching Manual and Student Textbook for Reading, Writing, Spelling, Vocabulary, and Handwriting Joan Knight Educators Publishing Service, Inc. 31 Smith Place Cambridge, MA 800-435-7728 Catalog #1655 – ISBN 0-8388-1655-X

Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading 4th Edition Edited by Robert B. Ruddell, Martha Rapp Ruddell, and Harry Singer Edited by Alan E. Farstrup and S. Jay Samuels International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139 Newark, Delaware 19714-8139 www.reading.org ISBN 0-87207-437-4 Copyright 1994

Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing Marie L. Radford, Susan B. Barnes, and Linda R. Barr ISBN 0-205-33249-8 Allyn and Bacon www.ablongman.com

What Research Has to say About Reading Instrucion 3rd Edition Edited by Alan E. Farstrup and S. Jay Samuels 11 Reading Resource List – Barrett Page 12

You Gotta BE the Book – Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm NCTE Teachers College Press Columbia University 1234 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 ISBN 0-8077-3567-1 Copyright 1997

Professional Library TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

All of these books on assessment can be purchased from the International Reading Association Bookstore. International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road Newark, DE 19714-8139 302-731-1600 http://newbookstore.reading.org/cgi-bin/OnlineBookstore.storefront/

The prices I am listing are before a member's discount is taken, so you may be able to buy these for less.

A Practical Guide to Reading Assessments A joint project of the US Department of Education, the International Reading Association, and HCI The Life Issues Publisher (Health Communications, Inc.) Edward Kame'enui, Deborah Simmons, and Cheri Cornachione Order # 9152 - $7.95 Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English ISBN (IRA) 0-87207-674-1 Stock # 674 ISBN (NCTE) 0-8141-0213-1 Stock # 02131 $8.95 (I received a note that this book will be revised.)

Standards for the English Language Arts

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Testing to Learn – Learning to Test Joanne Capper ISBN 0-87207-145-6 IRA Stock number 145 - $7.50 While the focus of this book is improving testing in developing countries, many of the issues discussed are ones we face. The philosophy of good testing development is universal.

Professional Library READING AND WRITING

The Reading/Writing Connection – Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom by Carol Booth Olson Allyn and Bacon 75 Arlington Street Boston, MA 02116 ISBN 0-321-049000-4 Copyright 2003 Pearson Education, Inc.

Science and Writing Connections by Robin Lee Harris Freedman Dale Seymour Publications, an imprint of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 10 Bank Street White Plains, New York 10602 1-800-872-1100 Customer Service ISBN 1-57232-576-3 Copyright 1999

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WEB SITES RESOURCES The articles at the following three sites can be downloaded and used in your classroom. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf This website will take you to an evaluation form for the Web. It will download in PDF format. http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-05-15/syndication/ This web site is maintained by the Columbia University school of journalism. All of the students in the school post articles here; you can use them free of charge simply by registering. http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ This site has a new word posted each day. In addition to a definition, you will find quotes that incorporate the word as well as information on a word's etymology. You can access archives that go back to 1999. http://englishcompanion.com This web site is a treasure trove of great materials. You will find note-taking information, literature tools, research, etc. The man who maintains the site is the author of the Great Source Reader’s Handbook at the high school level, Jim Burke. http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/ This website is very similar to the one maintained by the Star Tribune. One big difference is that these articles have readabilities in the grades 6-8 range. Another difference is that the site is interactive; you can have students take quizzes at the computer and get immediate feedback. http://wwwmnreading.org This site is an excellent resource for teachers. Maintained by the Minnesota Reading Association, you will find tons of helpful stuff. http://news.mpr.org/collections/education/ The web site for MPR curriculum is www.soundlearning.org This site is the Minnesota Public Radio section that is specific to education. Several teachers have said they regularly download information for classroom use here. If you back up to the homepage, you can get audio tapes to use for the listen portion of the standard. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ This is a web site with educational activities. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/ Home page for Pioneer Press articles. Copyright permission is very easy to obtain. http://www.readwritethink.org> This site is sponsored by IRA, NCTE, and Marcopolo. It is a collection of lesson, standards, web resources for both students and teachers in reading/language arts. I

14 Reading Resource List – Barrett Page 15 previewed a lesson called “Convince me” that contained lesson plans, worksheets, and a student scoring rubric as well as hyperlinks to other sites. Great resource! http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Homepage: Kathy Schrock. Lots of information about evaluating text. http://www.startribune.com/stories/1594/ This Star Tribune web site has articles that have been modified to a grade 4-6 readability. The site includes pre-teaching and post-teaching materials. The Star Tribune has announced that they will not maintain the site after this year, so download and print out the pages you like. www.themoonlitroad.com This web site has short stories that you can read or listen to, lots of support materials, and beautiful graphics. Most of the stories are eerie; the ones I previewed I think kids would love.

FREE BROCHURES

Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read Kindergarten Through Grade 3 This is a brochure of about 60 pages that gives an overview of all the research done regarding beginning reading instruction. It was created by the National Institute for Literacy, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the US Department of Education.

Put Reading First: Helping your Child Learn to Read – A Parent Guide This is a 4-panel color brochure intended to be given to parents. It is glossy, beautiful, and simple enough for parents to actually use. Again, you can order as many as you think you’ll need.

You can order these publications by e-mailing [email protected]

With a Heads Up from Sheila Bennett in Roseville: I agree that this is an excellent resource! Even though its focus is K-3, much of the information is important for grade 4-6 teachers to know too. A caution about sending it out without discussion, however: Many reading professionals take serious exception to the statements/conclusions regarding the importance of providing extended independent reading time in school (pages 25 and 29). We felt that those conclusions were potentially very destructive and ran counter to what we have been emphasizing about increasing the amount of reading time for all students as an essential part of our total reading program. Therefore, I prepared a kind of rebuttal statement, summarizing the findings of other types of research (especially well summarized by Richard Allington) regarding the crucial importance of independent reading time, which we handed out and discussed along with these booklets. Just a heads up I thought I'd share!