MCPS Early Literacy Institute Sampling of Professional Development Center Resources Summer 1998

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Books	Articles
Video Tapes	MCPS Documents

Books

Education Department of Western Australia. Reading Resource Book. Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1994.

Fitzpatrick, Jo. Phonemic Awareness, Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills. Creative Teaching Press, Cypress CA, 1997.

Fountas, Irene C. and Pinnell, Gay Su. Guided Reading, Good First Teaching for All Children. Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1996.

Strickland, Dorthy S. Teaching Phonics Today, A Primer for Educators. International Reading Association, Newark DE, 1998

Articles

Angeletti, Sara R. "Group Writing and Publishing: Building Community in a Second-Grade Classroom" Best Practices in Literacy Learning, Celebration Press, 1997.

Barrentine, Shelby J. "Engaging with reading through interactive read-alouds". The Reading Teacher, vol. 50, No. 1(September 1996), 33-43.

Clay, Marie. "Introducing a new storybook to young readers". The Reading Teacher, vol. 45 No 4 (December 1991), 264-272.

Cunningham and Cunningham. "Making Words: Enhancing the Invented Spelling-Decoding Connection". Best Practices in Literacy Learning, Celebration Press, 1997.

Griffith and Olson. "Phonemic awareness helps beginning readers break the code" The Reading Teacher, vol. 45 No 7 (March 1992), 516-523.

Hoffman, Roser and Battle. "Reading Aloud in Classrooms: From the Modal Toward a 'Model'", Best Practices in Literacy Learning, Celebration Press, 55-61.

Richgels, Poremba, McGee. "Kindergartens talk about print: Phonemic awareness in meaningful contexts". The Reading Teacher, vol. 49 No. 8 (May, 1996), 632-642.

Sutton, Christine. "Helping the nonnative English speaker with reading". The Reading Teacher. (May,1989), 684-688.

"Reading Aloud and Shared Reading", Grade 1, Teacher Guide, Volume 1, Professional Resource. The Wright Group.

Video Tapes

Celebration Press. The Literacy Backbone: Connecting Teaching-Learning Approaches, Sessions 1-12. Glenville, IL. 1997.

• Session 1: "Success in Early Literacy Instruction"
• Session 2: " A Balanced Literacy Program"
• Session 3: "Modeled Literacy: Reading & Writing Aloud"
• Session 4: "Shared Literacy, Emergent-Early"
• Session 5: "Shared Literacy, Early-Fluent"
• Session 6: "Classroom Management"
• Session 7: "Matching Children and Books"
• Session 8: "Guided Literacy, Emergent-Early"
• Session 9: "Guided Literacy, Early-Fluent"
• Session 10: "Independent and Collaborative Literacy"
• Session 11: "Performance Assessment"
• Session 12: "Theory and Practice: A Review"

Taberski, Sharon. A Close-Up Look at Teaching Reading, Focusing on Children and Our Goals. Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1996.

Using Running Records, Rigby, 1993

Learning Running Records, Rigby, 1993

MCPS Documents

Early Literacy Guide

Beyond Invented Spelling: A Spelling Handbook for Teachers

Handbook for Reading/Language Arts Volunteers

Program of Studies, English Language Arts K-8, Part I: Reading & Listening and Part II: Writing and Speaking

Reading/Language Arts Program, Principal's Guide