Reading/Reading Disabilities

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.

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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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

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please give on Raise-A-Reader Day 2008With the B.C. government matching all funds raised, together we can make a big difference in literacy

COUNCIL, Idaho — The elementary school at the edge of this rural town has a playground that boasts little more than a swing set. That's no problem — the hot new game is inside.

Free poetry books are being given to pupils in reception classes in an effort to inspire a love of reading.

Justine Ferrari, Education writer ONE in 10 school students failed to meet minimum national standards in literacy and about five per cent are below par in maths.

How do you get a kid to open a book? And once it's open, how do you get a kid to keep reading, book after book? At Ferguson Elementary School in North Philadelphia yesterday, educators and publishers rolled out a brand-new answer to those questions. It's called The 39 Clues, and it's aimed at readers 8 to 12.