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Beginning Reading
How children are initiated into reading influences their overall success and their engagement over their lifetimes. Reading opportunities that recognize young children’s developmental capacities, their interests, and their ways of learning all contribute to creating engaged and proficient, lifelong readers.
Text—whether it is on a sign or in a book—is central to reading. The texts in school can be thought of as a diet for beginning and struggling readers. To get a good start in reading (or restart, in the case of struggling readers), texts need to give students core and critical information about the written language. TextProject is the premiere site for information on appropriate texts for beginning and struggling readers.
Visit our Pinterest board on Beginning Reading for an overview of our resources.
What Do Beginning Readers Need To Learn?
- TextProject Answers: Beginning Reading (Research Digest)
- Early Literacy Instruction, Chs. 1-3(Books)
The Texts of Beginning Reading
- 77sec: What are Good Books to use with Beginning Readers? (YouTube)
- BeginningReads (Student Resources)
Critical Questions
Frankly Freddy Posts:
- Have the texts of beginning reading been dumbed down over the past 50 years?
- What exactly is a decodable text?
- Whatever happened to Dick and Jane?
New Research on Beginning Reading
- An analysis of two reading intervention programs: How do the words, texts, and programs compare? (Research Articles)
- Changing Readers, Changing Texts: Beginning Reading Texts from 1960 to 2010 (Research Articles)
77sec on Text Complexity: What Are Good Books to Use with Beginning Readers?