The Reading Success Network

The Region III Comprehensive Center RSN trains and supports reading specialists to become reading coaches for K-3 classroom teachers. Reading coaches work with classroom teachers to assist them in using assessment data to identify the needs of their low performing readers and to improve their instruction of these students.		About The Reading Success Network RSN Resources Ideas for helping your school or district get started with RSN. The Region III Comprehensive Center Reading Success Network Newsletter January 1999 Contents In the Press: "What's Basic in Beginning Reading? Finding Common Ground" Team Tips for Your School's Reading Success Network Focus on Assessment: Phonemic Awareness School-to-School: News From RSN Teams May 1999 Contents RSN Meets Nationally in New Orleans In the Press: "Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success" RSN: A Powerful Means for Staff Development Phomenic Awareness Followup School-to-School: News From RSN Teams The National Reading Success Network Provides a national perspective on each Comprehensive Center's regional implemenation of RSN The Reading Success Network Partnership in Lorain, Ohio Schools The Southern California Comprehensive Assistance Center Reading Success Network Literacy Resources The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's Balanced Reading Instruction Pathway Provides an overview of the skills-based, the meaning-based approach, and the "balanced" approach to teaching literacy. Offers a number of links and resources related to literacy learning and teaching. The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education's Bilingual Reading Instruction Pathway Provides links to resources, articles, and research pertaining to literacy development in bilingual students. Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children A project of the National Research Council and published by the National Academy Press, this synthesis of reading research provides a comprehensive analysis of what over 30 years of reading research tells us about how young children learn to read. Seeking Common Ground by Lee Sherman (published by Northwest Education Magazine) comments on the guidance Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children provides for practioners "seeking common ground" between whole language instruction and phonics based instruction. Other Literacy-Related Web Sites Summaries of Recent Articles on Literacy Development. Articles summarized include: What's Basic in Beginning Reading? Finding Common Ground by D.S. Strickland; A Second Chance to Learn to Read by B. Showers, B. Joyce, M. Scanlon, and C. Schnaubelt.