Free and Low Cost Online Sources
for
Alphabetics Instruction
Grade Leveled Passages
California Distance Learning Project Online
www.cdlponline.org
This free site contains hundreds of short news articles taken from California media. Most stories are provided in two levels, “basic” and “full”. Audio is available for each article. Articles are organized into topic categories. Readability levels are not provided, but the basic stories generally are around a GLE 4-5, and the full stories are often 8+.
Marshall Adult Education Reading Skills for Today’s Adult
http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/reading_skills_home.htm
This free site offers hundreds of grade-leveled short nonfiction reading passages that can be used for repeated reading, echo reading, and marked phrase boundary work. The passages are provided in a printable version as well as online, along with audio which students can listen to as a model or while reading. Note that many passages contain bulleted lists rather than paragraphs of text, and as such will not be as suitable for fluency practice as passages that have full paragraphs.
Teacher Resources
Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades. Blevins. W.
ISBN 0-439-16352-8, Scholastic Professional Books www.scholastic.com 2001.
An invaluable resource containing extensive lists of words and word parts to use for teaching higher-level alphabetics. Complete explanations of phonetic elements are provided, along with detailed instructions for teaching these elements to intermediate readers.
Webcast: From Assessment to Practice Part 1: Research-based Approaches to Teaching Reading to Adults
lincs.ed.gov/professional-development/resource-collections/profile-286
Watch this recorded webcast featuring reading researchers Susan McShane, John Kruidenier, and Rosalind Davidson discussing approaches to teaching alphabetics and comprehension in particular. Users can view the webcast and download slides or transcripts.
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