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Reading Comprehension & Study Strategies

Faculty Resources     

• Bridging the Gap Between High School & College    
• English/ Language Arts Standards
• Content Literacy
• Readability Calculators
• Strategic Instruction
   

 Bridging the Gap Between High School & College

• What Skills and Whose Standards: Why are Students Underprepared?- Cora Dzubak
• Adolescent Literacy Research Brief - NCTE
• Resolution on Adolescent Literacy  - IRA
• Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform  -  NCTE   
• Bridging the Pedagogical Gap:Intersections Between Literary and Reading Theories in Secondary and Postsecondary Literacy Instruction  - Lisa Eckert
• Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Literacy Teaching and Learning: A Call for Change - Elizabeth Birr Moje
• Postsecondary Literacy: Coherence in Theory, Terminology, and Teacher Preparation  - Eric J. Paulson & Sonya L. Armstrong
• What Can We Learn from Developmental Reading Research in Postsecondary Education? - Deepa Rao
• Critical Research and the Future of Literacy Education  - Ernest Morrel 

Strategic Instruction

• Text Mapping Plus: Improving Comprehension Through Supported Retellings
  - Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher & Kelly Johnson
• Self-Selected Reading for Enjoyment as a College Developmental Reading Approach
  - Eric J. Paulson
• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Writing  - The Carnegie Corporation
• Strategies to Facilitate Reading Comprehension Among College Transition Students                        -  Kathrynn Di Tommaso
• Five Close Reading Strategies to Support the Common Core - Court Allam

Content Literacy

• Supporting Adolescent Literacy Across the Curriculum - LAB
• Reading Across the Curriculum:A Framework for Improving the Reading Abilities and Habits of College Students
  - J. Y. Kim & Trela Anderson
• Promoting Learning through Content Literacy Instruction
  - Katherine E. Misulis
• Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy - Carol D. Lee

ENG/ Language Arts Standards

• NCTE / IRA Standards for the English/ Language Arts
• IRA: Literacy Implementation Guidance for the ELA Common Core Standards
• Common Core Learning Standards:

Reading Informational Text/ Reading Literature/ Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects/ Literacy in Social Studies and History/ Writing

 Readability Calculators

• Palio: Microsoft Word/ Mac Readability Calculators (Flesch Kincaid – readability)
• Devyn & Alain Trottier's WordsCount: SMOG (Polysyllabic formula – grade level indicator)
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Fry's Readability Index (Sentence length/ syllable count)
• Online Utility.org: Readability Calculator
  Copy and paste!! (Various instruments)

For information, contact:

Sherry Chandler
Phone: 607-778 - 5563
Email: chandlersl@sunybroome.edu