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Addressing the Challenges of Reading Informational Text” Explore some of the difficulties students may have with reading and understanding informational text as well as instructional strategies to support student success with informational text in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Fostering Student Success on the OAT-Reading, Grades 57: Reading and Writing Informational Text webcast series provides classroom teachers, literacy and curriculum specialists, and other leaders in English language arts education with instructional strategies for supporting student success with informational texts in the classroom and on the Ohio Achievement Test-Reading. Go to the ORC site (ohiorc.org to watch webcasts that present 45-minute panel discussions exploring the teaching-learning implications sample OAT items, student responses, and ELA content standards suggest in relation to the reading and writing of informational text. Use the webcast viewing guides to initiate or continue professional dialogue and instructional planning on enhancing literacy in your school or district. In addition, take advantage of the webcasts’ mini-collections—small sets of ORC resources containing additional instructional examples, lesson ideas, and supplemental resource materials. Lastly, use the reference bibliographies provided for further information and reflection on effective teaching with informational texts.

We are reading excerpts from our recently published book: Success Stories in a Failing School: Teachers Living under the Shadow of NCLB. Pushing back against the label “failed”, eleven elementary school teachers have stepped out of the classroom to tell their stories. Their stories reveal how today’s teachers labor to make a difference in urban school struggling under the mandates of the No Child Left Behind legislation. Teachers living under the shadow of “NO Child Left Behind”.

Studies show nearly two-thirds of low-income families own no books for their children, yet book ownership is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success. To prevent the resulting achievement gap, Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers launches the fourth year of Operation storybook. Operation storybook provides 2300 children—most from low-income working families–with 12 new books for their home libraries over the next year. Early learning and parent education programs bring these books alive for Sheltering Arms children and their families.

Harvey Silver discusses his book Reading for Academic Success; Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 2-6

Larry M., a 53 year old man who recently learned how to read through the Reading Horizons phonics software program, shares his story.

Educators nationwide have seen great success in using Reading Horizons with their ABE (Adult Basic Education) students. Reading Horizons can help any struggling reader, or non-reader, learn how to read because it teaches them how to decode and interpret any word.

Adult basic education teachers, staff, and administrators talk about how the STARS (student achievement in reading) program, through Hamline University, has helped them achieve reading success with their own students. Find out more here: www.hamline.edu … education reading “adult basic education” teachers hamline “student achievement”

Harvey Silver discusses his book Reading for Academic Success; Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 – 12

In the Fall 2008 semester, OTC introduced a new course that helped students achieve greater success in their other classes. Students who previously struggled to remember what they had read, labored over comprehension of textbooks, or simply did not enjoy reading took RDG 040. Upon successful completion of the course, these same students found that their focus and comprehension drastically improved, and many of them learned that reading is fun and enjoyable. The ability to read effectively …

The Fast ForWord program is designed for K-12 education institutions and clinical specialists worldwide whose students are reading below grade level. The Fast ForWord program develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing—the cognitive skills essential for learning and reading success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary …