Study Tips and Resources for Foundations of Reading

Suggested Readings and Texts

• Review text books and notes from literacy courses
• Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read [pdf], 2nd Edition, June 2003
• Beating Them All! Thirty Days to a Magic Score on Any Elementary Literacy Instruction Exam for Teacher Certification by Chris Nicholas Boosalis (available commercially or at Lesley-Sherrill Library
• Sound it Out by John Savage (in Lesley-Sherrill Library or available commercially)
• Teaching Reading in the 21st Century by Michael F. Graves, Connie Juel, Bonnie B. Graves
• Burns, Row, and Smith. Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
• Cunningham, Patricia. Phonics They Use. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
• Head-Taylor, Gail. The Beginning Reading Handbook. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.
• Tompkins, Gail. Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies. New Jersey: Merrill Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Wilson, R.M., et al. Phonics, Phonemic, and Word Analysis for Teachers: An Interactive Tutorial, 7th edition. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Zarillo, James. Ready for Rica: A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment. New Jersey: Merrill, 2002.

• Leu, Kinzer, Wilson & Hall. Phonics, Phonemic Awareness and Word Analysis for Teachers, An Interactive Tutorial - according to one student this is a great book; wonderful study aide

• Foundations of Reading: Effective Phonological Awareness Instruction and Progress Monitoring

Ideas and concepts to review

• Anything having to do with word recognition. In particular, phonological terms and concepts and elements of structural analysis.
• Reading theories and philosophies -- whole language philosophies, skills-based approaches, literature-based approaches. If possible, please visit the selection of basal readers available in Sherrill Library
• Review running records and miscue analyses.
• Review comprehension chapters in texts (Chapters 5 & 6 in Burns, Roe, and Smith are manageable and cover most material).
• Review comprehension of expository versus narrative texts.