Readings - NRP Website
Gary Obermeyer, Fri October 21, 2005, 07:00 AM
In 1997, Congress asked the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read.
For over two years, the NRP reviewed research-based knowledge on reading instruction and held open panel meetings in Washington, DC, and regional meetings across the United States. On April 13, 2000, the NRP concluded its work and submitted "The Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read," at a hearing before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
Reading First builds on the research compiled by the National Reading Panel. For this reason, we want you to be familiar with the NRP and the NRP website (when you click the link below, the NRP website will open in a new browser).
Please take a few minutes to review the website and share your findings/questions. Feel free to copy/paste quotes and/or attach documents that you think might be of interest to your virtual colleagues.
This website is a good background of research supporting strategies of Reading First. I downloaded the summary and started to read about Phonemic Awareness but realized how long it was. I will need to go back and spend more time here or if I have a specific question about one of the components or what I can do help my students with one of the components.
Good for a refresser on basics. I would like to spend more time on this at a later date.
I chose the English Language Learners category. I chose the subcategory called Fun and Games for English Practice. This address had MANY links to games and activities for all levels of ESL speakers. I am excited to check out the other links to use in my classroom! I will definately return to the site to check out the other interesting stuff they have.
www.nationalreadingpanel.org: I found the FAQ section particularly helpful. In addition to basic definitions of such terms as “phonemic awareness”, it also provided answers to questions about the panel that I may not have thought to ask myself. Such as “Why didn't the Panel examine any other research topics?”
On the National Reading Panel, I found an article called "Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read". I found a lot of information on what both parents and teachers should do when their child/student is learning to read along with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. It basically talked about how parents should be reading, listening to their child read, play word games, work on sorting word families, and rhyming techniques. I think this is a good website for both teachers, as well as parents.
This website is very helpful. It defines many of the key elements in literacy terms, and gives conclusions from the panel on ways to teach them effectively to help young readers. I found the 'Frequently Asked Questions' section to be very helpful in understanding the panel. This section is also a great resource for quick definitions on literacy terms such as 'phonemic awareness' and 'fluency'. This website has a lot of very useful and helpful information and I look forward to spending more time exploring the site.
This website is easy to use. It gives great background knowledge on the National Reading Panel. It also gives information about NCLB and the research behind Reading Fisrt. The part I felt was the most useful was the Most Frequently Asked Questions. I found myself asking a lot of the same questions and it was nice to be able to find some answers.
Hi everyone, Yes... there is a lot of information regarding the National Reading Panel's study. I do have a hard copy of the complete study as well as the summary in my office if you would like to reference it as well. I will also deliver to each one of you a hard copy of the Reading First Academy Binder. The National Reading Panel is also referenced in your copy of Reading First in the Classroom. Denise
This sight was user friendly. By using the frequently asked questions list you can find information quite quickly.
A lot to take in with this site. It was informative to know that the National Reading Panel describes the its findings and provides analysis and discussion in the five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. It was also helpful to know that each section suggests implications for classroom instruction with examples of how the findings can be implemented.
I did not know that the National Reading Panel was online and am very excited to find out what they do and research. It was nice to have an outlet to get refreshed on NELIP ideas that were taught two years ago. I enjoyed the suggestions that can be applied directly to the classroom environment. I am interested in reading more about NCLB and how the Reading First program came about.
I found the questions and answers part of this website to be extremely helpful. It provided me with information about what the National Reading Panel found in their research on the five components of literacy and how it applies to the classroom.
I also found the FAQ section helpful and interesting. I did not read any articles yet. But, so far what I teach and what I believe is important in reading has been validated through this website. What a good feeling to have!
As a new teacher, I will find this website to be extremely helpful. I will be able to check and make sure I am incorporating all the appropriate elements and techniques.
This website was very helpful in terms of describing NRP and how it came about. The part that really interested me was the Q & A regarding what the Panel's findings mean to parents. I am just curious as to how many do and/or will take advantage.
This website was definitely helpful and I will spend much more time reading it in the future. Since I am new to Reading First, I will look forward to learning all that I can to help my students.
This Website is useful and has many sources that i will be looking into. it really helps define the NRP and many key elements of literacy. it is a helpful review and a new source of literacy reasearch and findings. the Q&A part was a great quick way to find iformation as well
I read Put REading First, the Research building blocks for Teaching Children to read and it really helped clarify the gray areas I wasn't understanding from the reading assignment we had in Session 2.
This website was very intersting. It has a lot of useful information on it such as defining literacy terms, and information that would be helpful to me as an ESL teacher. In addition it is great to know that there is so much available just a click away to support us in the classroom. Ginny Warfield
Aloha! I just like the way that word sounds. Anyway..... I am trying to play catch-up with the rest of the crew, since I am a rookie over here. With regards to the NRP website, I found it quite interesting to review the publication on reading titled "Put Reading First: Help Your Child Read." What was interesting to learn was how much of an impact parents can make on the progress students make in school. So much emphasis is placed on schools, but some of the responsibilities should be placed on the home. I understand that not every child has the opportunitistic home-life, but it is vital to their overall growth. What was so great about this website was the plethera of information, not only for teachers, but for parents to utilize in the home. I would recommend this site for anyone looking to improve student growth at home. Sorry this is so late, but I am working on catching up with the team.
I thought that the site was good. The link about Putting Reading First "Helping your child learn to read" was very informative for me (It looks like others thought so too). I always struggle with giving enough information to parents about how to help their child with reading. It gave a lot of information on what activities could be done with your child at home. The other information about the NRP was informative as well. There were many links that I may go back to later.
I found the report, overall, to be somewhat exhaustive, yet thorough. I appreciate the Frequently Asked Question site. It is easy to use and the answers offered clarify much of the Panel’s complex procedures and findings. I was most impressed with the Alphabetics section of the report. It validates the role teachers play in providing phonological awareness. This section also explains the necessity of varied tools and flexibility in the teaching process.
This report was very interesting. I would like to have learned more about visually impared readers in that I have a student that wears glasses but constantly looses his place. I wonder if there is a misconnection from the brain to the vision senses.
I'm taking a visual phonics class next month that will put visual signs to the letter sounds. It sounds like it will be a real benefit to the class.
I have read many brochures and printed texts about the National Reading Panel and there was no new ideas or concepts presented at the website that I didn't already know.
I read Put Reading First and I knew most of the things teachers should be doing and what would help students at home. It is all good reinforcers. I think it is great for parents to get ahild of this. This would be a great help for parents. The parents then know where their child should be at and what they can do to help at home.
I found it fascinating to find out how very many past and present studies were perused to come to the conclusions that they did! I knew most of what was stated but it truly helps to also know why and how. This was in response to the press releases area.
I found the NRP website very easy to navigate. The FAQ area of the site was good. There are some of the basic reading issues covered and links to search for more in depth quesions and research.
I found the brochure, "Put Reading First - Helping Your Child to Read" to be a great resource for parents. As I was reading through the brochure I was thinking about how we could use this as a tool during a Family Literacy event. I think parents would enjoy an overview of this via PowerPoint. The brochure brings forth what parents should be seeing teachers doing at school at all levels of reading - whether the student is just beginning to learn to read; just beginning to read; or is reading. For instance, it highlights the following: 1. Continuing to teach letter-sound relationships for children who need more prac tice. 2. Teaching the meaning of word s, especially words that are important to understanding a book. 3. Teaching ways to learn the meaning of new words. 4. Helping children understand what they are reading. In addition, it highlights the following points on how parents can help their child at home: 1. Rereading familiar books 2. Building reading accuracy 3. Building reading comprehension 4. Share conversations with your child over meal times and other times you are toget her 5. Read together every day 6. Be your child’s best advocate 7. Be a reader and a writer 8. Visit the library often
This website seems like an important site to have marked under favorites. The information at this site is not new for me, however, I wonder how many classroom teachers,and/or administrators know abaout this site. The information provided at the NRP website is crucial in helping getting teachers to understand the reasons we have essential components for teaching reading,as well as the "why" we should be addressing the essential components of reading instruction with our students.What seems to be missing is the "how".
I am curious to know more about the research around the preservice and inservice professional development findings. Personally, that is where I see the greatest lack, and the most need. As a Literacy Specialist my goal is to work myself out of a job. What I mean by that is that my goal is to build capacity among the classrooms teachers through professional development, so that we are all able to be highly effective in the area of teaching redaing. That can only be accomplished when given time, and the opportunity to dialogue about our practice, thereby learning from one another.
I think that a lot of teachers coming right out of college tend to have very little understanding about how to effectively teach reading.Don't get me wrong, I am not implying that new teachers are bad at teahing. What I am saying is that at the University level reading is not always addressed in a practioner sort of way. We learn about how to detect reading difficulties, but spend very little time on proven effective instructional strategies that promote high achievement.Thier needs to be a more collaborative partnership with School Districts and Universities to ensure that both entities are promoting the same values and beliefs about reading which should be driven by the findings of the National Reading Panel.
Until all parties involved have a clear understanding of this document, we will still find ourselves leaving children behind. I strongly believe that professional development and capacity building should be our primary focus to support teachers, students and parents in the acquisition of reading.
I perused the website quickly and found some really interesting articles that I would love to read, but don't have the time to do that just now. I ordered "The Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read" since I know that paper is such a precious commodity at my school that I don't have the luxury to print off 35 pages. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading that report and spending time looking at some of the NRP's findings. All of the stuff that Reading First is using in regards to reading I was taught in college. I know have to go forth and apply all of that knowledge.
The article I viewed was "Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read". I thought the article was very informative on the value of parents reading with their children. Throughtout my teaching career, I have worked with administrators who believe in parent involvement. This has included parent classes where parents and children make take home games to use on a regular bases to practice different reading skills. The article validated the importance of this. The other issue which the article dealt with was the importance of parents reading with children. At a number of schools I have worked at, I have put on programs where children read every night for 20 minutes with someone as well as incorporating exercise. The school wide program prepared students, staff, and parents to train for schoolwide reading/health day. This article once again informed me that what I did by putting on these programs helped the students and their parents to spend quality time together reading.
I find the site informative and useful. I can't help but wonder why I had not known about this site before when I was teaching in California. The reading issues talked about here should be common knowledge and useful to all teachers involved in teaching reading to kids. The FQA on the Panel's findings is a much appreciated time saver. It is great that parents have access to this site. I'm glad our school's literacy team is planning to introduce it to the parents on Family Literacy Day.
Great Website with lots of information which is very useful. A website to keep in mind when needing a refresher. I liked the article "Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read".
I did the wrong assignment on the my first response... oops... using this site was awesome. I love how with a click of my fingers I can find so many activiites I can use to assist my ESL students.
The National Reading Panel website included lots of information about the key elements of literacy and the components of the Reading First Legislation. As a new Literacy Coordinator, the brochures available FREE are a wonderful resource. The pamphlets (available in English or Spanish) on teaching children to read both at school and at home will be perfect to hand out at Parent-Teacher nights or Literacy Lunches. We have one scheduled for January focused on the importance of early literacy so I'll order "A Child Becomes a Reader, Birth to Preschool" in bulk.
I'm happy to see this website. I clicked on the link for parents. I have a child of my own and he is 5 years old. I want to have more ideas to help him with his reading at home. I am a teacher and know a lot of techniques to teach children to read, but it is different when it is your own child. This link will be helpful and I will refer to it as I need.
I liked this website. I thought that the areas where implications were discussed and examples were given are quite helpful. I also like the area that broke down ideas into teacher and at home. Many parents want to know what to do with their children, but may not know what to do, or not realize the power their impact has.
I thought this was a great website and a good resource to have. I read the article Put Reading First, The Research Building Blocks for teaching Children to Read. It was very helpful to clear up some gray areas of my understanding.
This website contains a lot of good information. I liked the section of the most frequently asked questions the most informative because I found the contents of the website a little overwhelming at first glance. This section helped focus my attention to the types of things that I could find on the site.
Wow! What a great resource. I will explore again. I read the introduction to a book "A Child Becomes a Reader ...K-3rd Grade". I liked what they said about a child begins to "read-or understand language" the min. they are born by hearing sounds around them, hearing sounds of the spoken language, people talking, listening and singing. Yes, this is so true. If they can hear it they can speak it if they can speak it they can learn to read and write it. Stanford Univ. is doing a brand new study (nov. 2005 and this summer 2006) re: Poor Readers and Music. They are taking a group of poor readers and teaching them to play a musical instrument! They did a study with adults and actually studied the brains of the people in the study and it showed the ones that learned the musical instrument (that part of the brain that has to do with learning to read) grew tremendously but the ones with no musical training did not. Amazing. I can't wait to see the results from this study, as I'm the musci teacher and former a reading teacher. Standford says it has to do with hearing sounds.....better. Great web site and I hope to see this study on here, too. They have a web site of their own but I left it at school.
I thought that this website was of great use. There are many helpful hints that could better my teaching abilities. I think that I will be using this website thought out the year. I liked the article.."Help your child to read". Being a new teacher, everything is still overwhelming; there is just so much information out there that it is hard to get it all. I know that I will certainly use this website in the future.
As a new teacher this website is very helpful. I can check and make sure I am incorporating all the appropriate elements and techniques. There are many helpful hints that could better my teaching abilities. THings can get very overwheling, and I find myself questioning my techniques. I know that I will use this to help my students grow.