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BEST PRACTICES /PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

Links to ERIC Documents and articles describing Best Practices/Program Implementation in Reading, Mathematics and Technology. Directions for obtaining cited materials are available here.   Links of particular note are the links to The Literacy Web at the University of Connecticut, The Drexel University Mathematics Forum Website, and the U.S. Department of Education Desktop Reference describing Title I through Title X

What is Meant by Scientifically Based Research under NCLB? (.pdf Document)

 

Reading
 
Practices

  Mathematics Practices
 

This is a list of recognized, researched based, exemplary best practices, not programs,  in reading with links to materials about these practices. 

This is a list of recognized, researched based, exemplary best practices, not programs,  in mathematics with links to materials about these practices. 
Balanced Literacy Cognitive Tutor
Direct Instruction Math Journals & Logs
Early Steps Math Manipulatives
Exemplary Center  Math Their Way
Junior Great Books  Vigotsky & Constructivism
Lindamood-Bell Scaffolding of Learning Experience
Orton-Gillingham
Peer Coaching    
Reading Mastery    
Reading Recovery  
Wilson Reading System
Problem Solving    

  Commercial Programs

 

  Technology

  Title I-X Explained: Purposes, Programs
  Funding

                               
Reading

The Literacy Web at the University of Connecticut
This site has a wealth of information on classroom literacy resources (by grade level), monthly articles and special features, ideas for integrating literacy strategies into the classroom in addition to current research and professional development resources.  Click on the link below
www.literacy.uconn.edu
 


 Balanced Literacy

Diamond, Linda and Mandel, Sheila. Building a Powerful Reading Program from Research to Practice.    1996.    ERIC_Document # ED413578      For an abstract click below
 
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+ericdb-

Walpole, Sharon. Balanced Literacy: Making It Work in a Real School. 1999.ERIC Document # ED445324     For an abstract click below:
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Phonemic Awareness

Gough, Philip B. ,Larson, Kevin C.  and Yopp, Hallie The Structure of Phonemic Awareness.
www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/klarson/recife.html

Phonics

Research Regarding Phonics - A Bibliography.
http://projectpro.com/ICR/Research/Phonics/Bibliography.htm

Comprehension

A Research Agenda for Improving Comprehension.
www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1465/MR1465.ch4.pdf

Fluency

Ihnot, Candyce. A Plan to Attack Fluency Problems
/www.education.umn.edu/carei/Reports


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Direct Instruction (DI)

Adams, Gary L.; Engelmann, Siegfried. Research on Direct Instruction: 25 Years Beyond    DISTAR. 1996.    ERIC Document # ED 413575    For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

American Federation of Teachers.  Building on the Best, Learning From What Works: Five  Promising Remedial Reading Intervention Programs.
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/remedial.pdf

Bessellieu, Frances B. and Kozloff, Martin A. Teachers’ Perceptions of Direct Instruction Teaching
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/teacherperceptdi.html

Kozloff, Martin A. et al. Direct Instruction:  Its Contributions to High School Achievement.   July 2000.
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/dihighschool.html

Schug, Mark C.; Tarver, Sara G.; Western, Richard D.. Direct Instruction and the Teaching of Early  Reading: Wisconsin's Teacher-Led Insurgency. Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Report, Volume 14, Number 2. 2001.
www.wpri.org/Reports/Volume14/Vol14no2.pdf   
 


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 Early Steps (ES)

American Federation of Teachers.  Building on the Best, Learning From What Works: Five Promising Remedial Reading Intervention Programs.
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/remedial.pdf

Santa, Carol M. and  Hoien, Torleiv. An Assessment of Early Steps: A Program for Early Intervention of Reading Problems. Reading Research Quarterly; v34 n1 p54-79 Jan-Mar 1999.  ERIC Document # EJ581319  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?


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  Exemplary Center For Reading Instruction

American Federation of Teachers.  Building on the Best, Learning From What Works: Five  Promising Remedial Reading Intervention Programs.
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/remedial.pdf

American Federation of Teachers.  Seven Promising Programs for Reading and English Language      Arts: Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI).
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/seven.pdf

Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ERIC). 1999 ERIC Document # ED447425   For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Reid, Ethna R. Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ERIC). Behavior and Social Issues, Volume 7, No. 1, Spring 1997.
www.ecri.cc/articles.htm

Reid, Ethna R.  Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) Validation Study. 1996.  ERIC Document # ED414560   For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Reid, Ethna R. Practicing Effective Instruction: The Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction Approach.
www.ecri.cc/articles.htm


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Junior Great Books

American Federation of Teachers.  Seven Promising Programs for Reading and English Language     Arts:  Junior Great Books (JGB).
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/seven.pdf

Wheelock, Anne. The Junior Great Books Program: Reading for Understanding in High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools. 2000.   ERIC Document # ED441927  For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Wyatt, Patricia B.. Improving Reading Comprehension in Grade 3 Using Whole Language Activities and the Computer. 1991.    ERIC Document # ED335667  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?


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Lindamood-Bell

American Federation of Teachers.  Building on the Best, Learning From What Works: Five Promising Remedial Reading Intervention Programs.
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/remedial.pdf

Lindamood, Charles and Patricia and Bell, Nanci  Assessment: Lindamood-Bell.
http://cle.osu.edu/interactive/lindamood_bell.html

Lindamood-Bell:  Research.
www.lindamoodbell.com/research/research.html


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Orton-Gillingham

Harmes, John M.  A Study: The Acquisition of Language Skills after Two Years of Tutorial  Programming. 1980.     ERIC Document # ED201147    For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Vickery, Karen S.; And Others. Multisensory Teaching Approach for Reading, Spelling, and Handwriting, Orton-Gillingham Based Curriculum, in a Public School Setting. Annals of Dyslexia; v37 p189-200 1987.      ERIC Document # EJ368948  For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Websites of interest:
www.jwor.com/orton.htm
www.ortonacademy.org
www.orton-gillingham.com


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 Peer Coaching

Barbknecht, Arnold; Kieffer, Connie W. Peer Coaching: The Learning Team Approach. K- College.  2001.     ERIC Document #  ED454176.  For an abstract click below
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Busher, Lisa A. The Effects of Peer Coaching on Elementary School Teachers. 1994. ERIC Document #   ED367616For an abstract click below.
 
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Harlin, Rebecca P.. Developing Reflection and Teaching through Peer Coaching. Focus on Teacher Education; v1 n1 Fall 2000.   Document #  ED457151.     For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Landau, Jacqueline; And Others. An Assessment of Peer Coaching Training and Practice in New Instructional Model Schools. Final Report. Report No. 9203.  1991.  ERIC Document #  ED343893.   For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Peer Coaching: An Effective Staff Development Model.   1995.
www.ncela.gwu.edu/ncbepubs/directions/03.htm  
                                                 


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Reading Mastery

Grossen, Bonnie.  The Research Base for Reading Mastery.
www.uoregon.edu/~adiep/rdgtxt.htm


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Reading Recovery

American Federation of Teacher.  Building on the Best, Learning from What Works:  Five Promising Remedial Reading Intervention Programs.
www.aft.org/edissues/downloads/remedial.pdf

Reading Recovery. OERI Education Research Consumer Guide Number 3.  December 1992.   OR 93-3058   ED/OERI 92-38
www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/readrec.html

Reading Recovery Council of North America Website
www.RRCNA.org/

Sensenbaugh, Roger.  Reading Recovery.  ERIC Digest,  1995.  ERIC Document #  ED386713  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Swartz, Stanley L.  and Klein, Adria F.   Reading Recovery: An Overview. 1994. Literacy, Teaching and Learning, 1(1)
www.stanswartz.com/readrecover/overview.htm

Swartz, Stanley L. Reading Recovery Research Monograph.  1996.
www.stanswartz.com/researchmonograph.htm

Swartz, Stanley L.  and Klein, Adria F.  Editors.    Research in Reading Recovery.Heinemann.  1997.
www.stanswartz.com/rrtrifold.htm

Tunmer, William E. and Chapman, James W.  The Reading Recovery Approach
To Preventive Early Intervention: As Good as it Gets? August 2001.

www.nrrf.org/rdg_recov_8-01.pdf


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 Wilson Reading System

Education Commission of the States. Programs & Practices: Wilson Reading System. June 10, 2002.
www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/19/01/1901.htm  

Wilson Language Training Website
www.wilsonlanguage.com/

Wilson Reading System: Evidence of Effectiveness.
www.wilsonlanguage.com/further_reading.html

Wilson Reading System. 1999. ERIC Document # ED447439  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Wilson Reading System Website
www.interdys.org/pdf/F67-Wilson-Reading-Sys.pdf


Commercial Programs

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For information from individual publishers about their programs, check

Long Island Education Sales Association Website
 


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  Titles I-X Explained:  Purposes, Programs, Funding

       

 Title I   

 Title II A    Title IID
    
(Technology)
 Title III 
 
(BETAC)
Title IV   Title V    Title VI  Title VII
Title VIII  Title IX   Title X  


   No Child Left Behind - A Desktop Reference

 

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 Mathematics

Drexel University Mathematics Forum Website.  Mathematics Education: Research in Math Education.
Pages of links to resources for Pedagogical Research and Psychological Research

http://mathforum.org/mathed/mathed.research.html


 

Cognitive Tutor

Comprehensive, innovative, research-based mathematics curricula that integrates computer technology and classroom instruction and utilizes the latest advancements in the research of understanding human thinking.

Carnegie Learning
   www.carnegielearning.com

Pittsburgh Advance Cognitive Tutoring Center
Cognitive Tutor Implementation
    www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pact/Academia/pubimpl.htm

Cognitive Tutor Evaluation
   www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pact/Academia/pubEval.htm

 


 Math Journals and Logs

 Benko, Alice; Loaiza, Rosemary; Long, Robert; Sacharski, Michael; Winkler, Jennifer. MathWord Problem Remediation with Elementary Students. 1999.   ERIC Document # ED434015.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Blessman, Jennifer; Myszczak, Beverly. Mathematics Vocabulary and Its Effect on Student Comprehension. 2001.  ERIC Document #  ED455112.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Burns, Marilyn; Silbey, Robyn. Math Journals Boost Real Learning. Instructor; v110 n7 p18-20 Apr 2001. ERIC Document # EJ627301. For an abstract click below

http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Fuqua, Beth Howard. Exploring Math Journals. Childhood Education; v74 n2 p73-77 Win 1997-1998. ERIC Document # EJ557318.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Kroll, Linda; Halaby, Mona. Writing To Learn Mathematics in the Primary School. Young          Children;v52 n4 p54-60 May 1997. ERIC Document #  EJ544921. For an abstract click below
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Moore, Jane. Math Journals. 1991.  ERIC Document # ED333475. For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Newman, Vicki. Math Journals: Tools for Authentic Assessment. 1994 ERIC Document # ED394806.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Pinzker, Valerie. Increasing the Engagement and Understanding of Concepts in Mathematics.  2001.  ERIC Document # ED455117.  For an abstract, click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Schwarz, Justine C.. Vocabulary and Its Effects on Mathematics Instruction.  1999. ERIC  Document # ED439017.   For an abstract click below
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Vukovich, Diane. Ideas in Practice: Integrating Math and Writing through the Math Journal. Journal of Developmental Education; v9 n1 p19-20 1985.    ERIC Document # EJ322531.   For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Wason-Ellam, Linda. Writing as a Tool for Learning: Math Journals in Grade One. 1987.  ERIC Document # ED285194.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

 Website:  www.ucs.mun.ca/~mathed/t/rc/jour/JOURNAL.HTM


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Math Manipulatives

Allen, Robert. Development of a Math Manipulative Parent/Teacher Training Program for Remediating Elementary Chapter I Students.  1990.   ERIC Document # ED325399.  For an abstract click below
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

 Burns, Marilyn. How to Make the Most of Math Manipulatives. Instructor; v105 n7 p45-51   Apr 1996. ERIC Document # EJ530160.  For an abstract click below
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Chester, Jayne; And Others. Math Manipulatives Use and Math Achievement of Third-Grade  Students. 1991.  Document # ED339591.  For an abstract click below.
 http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Ernest, Patricia S.. Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Implementation of a Math Manipulatives Project.  1994.  ERIC Document # ED391675.   For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Holden, Linda. Even Middle Graders Can Learn with Manipulatives. Learning; v16 n3 p52-55  Oct 1987.  ERIC Document # EJ362974.  For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Rust, Amanda L.. A Study of the Benefits of Math Manipulatives versus Standard Curriculum  in the Comprehension of Mathematical Concepts. 1999.   ERIC Document # ED436395. For an abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

 Stone, Janet I.. Hands-On Math: Manipulative Math for Young Children. Ages 3-6.  1990.  ERIC Document # ED309962.  For an abstract click below.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

Utah State University.  National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/projinfo.html


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Math Their Way

Center for Innovation in Education, Inc.  Website
www.center.edu/

Hay Academy. (Chicago) Hay Math Team Adopts the "Math Their Way" Approach. Ingebo, George; And Others.  Third Grade Math Their Way Pilot Project in the Portland  Public Schools: 1983-84 Evaluation Report. 1984. ERICDocument # ED253592.
http://askeric.org/plweb- 

Tankersley, Karen. The Changing Curriculum: Teaching Math Their Way.  Educational Leadership, vol. 50, no. 8, May 1993.
www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9305/tankersley.html   


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 Problem Solving

Charles, Randall I., Ed.; Silver, Edward A., Ed. The Teaching and Assessing of Mathematical  Problem Solving. Research Agenda for Mathematics Education Series. Volume 3. 1988  ERIC Document # ED307120   For abstract click below
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?

DeCorte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven; Greer, Brian  Connecting Mathematics Problem Solving to the Real World
 http://math.unipa.it/~grim/Jdecorte

 Mathematics Association of America. Research Sampler: What Does It Take to Be an Expert Problem Solver 1997
www.maa.org/t_and_l/sampler/rs_4.html

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics(NCTM) Principles and  Standards for School Mathematics: Problem Solving
http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/prob.htm

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Math Problem Solving Model
www.nwrel.org/msec/mpm/index.html

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.  Problem Solving: Getting to the Heart of Mathematics: Open-Ended Problem Solving Weaving a Web of Ideas.
www.nwrel.org/msec/nwteacher/spring2000/open.html

Taplin, Margaret   Mathematics Through Problem Solving
www.mathgoodies.com/articles/problem_solving.shtm


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 Vigotsky and Constructivism 

Drexel University Mathematics Forum Website.  Mathematics Education:  Constructivism in the Classroom.
 A page of links to sites on Constructivism and Mathematics Education
http://mathforum.org/mathed/constructivism.html

Lind, Karen K. Science in Early Childhood:  Developing and Acquiring Fundamental Concepts and Skills.  1998.  ERIC Document # ED418777
http://askeric.org/plweb-


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Scaffolding of Learning Experience

Diezmann, Carmel M.; Watters, James J.  Catering for Mathematically Gifted Elementary Students: Learning from Challenging Tasks. 2000.  ERIC Document # EJ614670.
http://askeric.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+ericdb2+ericdb


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 Technology       

(Information about technology and what works well in schools)

eschool News Online
www.eschoolnews.com/publications/directories/stbp/

Riverdeep Software
Today, education funding is often linked to the use of existing scientific, research-based instructional programs. Riverdeep has a wide variety of highly-respected, proven, award-winning products to help meet this mandate and the others that make up No Child Left Behind Legislation. For more information go to:

www.riverdeep.net/ad/nclb/index.jhtml

U.S. Department of Education
How Technology Can Work Well in Schools
 

White Paper: In Response to the Application for State Grants Under the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EdTech) Program, prepared by Learning.com. May 2002.
This white paper outlines the requirements of the EdTech Program and how to receive the necessary funding for your school or district. Click on the link below to read this document.
http://learning.com/Resources/1,1125,523,00.html

 

 

 NOTE: Some of the items cited  link to their ERIC Abstracts only.  To obtain full texts of articles there  are several options. 

  1. If you are a member of the staff of a Nassau County school district, your School Library Media Specialist can help you to obtain a copy of ERIC documents that have an ED or EJ Prefix via interlibrary loan from the Nassau BOCES School Library System.  Please note that ED prefixed documents are available in microfiche format only and require a microfiche reader to read or a microfiche reader printer to print in hard copy.
  2. College and Public Libraries are also able to obtain interlibrary loans of ERIC documents.
  3. The ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) can provide a copy of ERIC documents for a price. Ordering information is usually available on the abstract citation.

 

 

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