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Pando, Bolivia Free of Illiteracy

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:20:15 EDT

La Paz, The northeastern Bolivian department of Pando will today be declared free of illiteracy, the third in that country after Oruro and Santa Cruz in a program that began in 2006.

Days of children reading books 'are numbered'

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:58:05 EDT

The days of children reading traditional books are numbered, claims the man spearheading a campaign to improve literacy in schools. Publishers must adapt titles to the demands of modern young readers who spend more time on the internet if they are to succeed in persuading the next generation to read, says Jonathan Douglas, the director of the National Literacy Trust.

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Teachers using new strategies to help teens boost reading skills

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:20:27 EDT

Ellen Rose's sophomore language arts students weren't just reading an Arthur Miller essay. They were taking it apart, scribbling in the margins of the text questions about the essay, highlighting words they didn't understand, recording their observations and making notes about interesting phrases

Nemours aims to give dyslexic preschoolers a bright start

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:41:53 EDT

If you have dyslexia, it's hard to read, and it's nearly impossible to keep up in school. That's why Nemours Children's Clinic Orlando is unveiling a pilot program aimed at helping preschoolers in Orlando with dyslexia and other reading disabilities — before they head to elementary school.

KEY PRINCIPAL PASSION FOR SPECIAL ED

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:41:20 EDT

By RITA DELFINER
When Mary McInerney was 8 years old, she was so distressed that a beloved, mentally retarded cousin could not read that she resolved she "would teach people like him."

Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:13:44 EDT

By MOTOKO RICH
Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.

Traditional textbooks waning in importance

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:16:06 EDT

by Dr. Robert Sharples
The need for computers and school librarians in the Dartmouth school system is critical, as is a strong and inclusive preschool-to-Grade-12 literacy program. (It should not be halted at Grade 5.) The use of textbooks in the classic sense, however, is open to review.

Learning to Read Your Child's Reading Scores

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:49:53 EDT

You send your child off to kindergarten, confident she is a capable reader. She comes home one day with a report that says she is reading at Level 5. Is this cause for celebration or panic and self-recrimination? You are not sure.

Audit: D.C. Schools' Contract May Be Illegal

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:25:15 EDT

By Joe Stephens
Arrangement with the nonprofit Teachers Institute, which provides reading instruction, violated city regulations and might have broken the law, an audit concludes.

Gene link to poor reading skills

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:14:31 EDT

A common genetic variant may be partly to blame for poor reading ability, research suggests. The variant, carried by more than one in seven people, has already been associated with dyslexia.Tests by the University of Oxford found people carrying the key sequence tended to perform worse than average in tests of their reading ability. But the study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, found no impact on general intelligence.