David,
Thanks for responding. I am just getting started with this and I expect that I will add more categories as I find new ideas and collect ideas from others. I do have many of the books and publications you mentioned so I will review them. The nice thing about a sabbatical is that without teaching and grading papers, I really have time to put into this.
Are you going to be at Nade this February? I would like to ask you about this "new literacies " and "differentiated instruction..." I work at the Downtown Campus of our college where most of the immigrants, refugees and international students end up. I am in some cases teaching classes with 80% ESL students. Thanks again for your input.
Marty Frailey
Lead Faculty Reading- Downtown Campus
office CC272
phone (520) 206-7020, fax (520) 206-7044
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Marty,
Thank you for beginning this excellent project on behalf of those who teach developmental reading. Collecting and documenting instructional interventions into these 11 categories will become a useful resource for all of us.
I would also encourage submissions that improve "fluency", "new literacies", as well as "differentiated instruction for students who are culturally and linguistically different and students with special needs." These submissions can easily be integrated into your 11 categories.
Second, I would ask potential submitters include in their documentation evidence of success ranging from student comments, instructional histories, to quantitative or qualitative data. Even if the instructional strategies have not been tested, chronicling them is an important first step to informing us all.
Finally, I would encourage your submitters or you to connect these instructional strategies with the most current research as found in the new Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research, 2nd Ed. (Flippo & Caverly, 2009), Teaching Developmental Reading (Stahl & Boylan, 2003), and What works: A guide to research-based best practices in developmental education (Boylan, 2002). Comparing these instructional strategies to the extant research literature will provide a useful benchmark to help us make sound instructional decisions.
Boylan, H. (2002). What works: A guide to research-based best practices in developmental education. Boone, NC: National Center for Developmental Education. Retrieved September 12, 2007, from http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/whatworks.htm
Flippo, R. F., & Caverly, D. C. (2009). Handbook of college reading and study strategy research (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
Stahl, N. A., & Boylan, H. R. (2003). Teaching developmental reading. Boston, MA: Bedford-St. Martin's Press.
I, for one, am looking forward to what you find.
David C. Caverly, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction
Texas State University - San Marcos
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