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Literacy Links

Reading

Building your reading skills: a guide for students

An overview of the SQ4R method of studying, and a few other useful tips from the University of Waterloo.

Building Reading Proficiency At The Secondary Level

Mostly cites research from the late 90s, but has lots of good strategies for working with secondary students in ways that don't seem too childish.

Building Reading Skills Step by Step

An article promoting FAME, which is a reading intervention program from Boys Town (a charity in the US).

Open Dyslexic

A font which is designed to be easy to read for people who struggle with contrast/blindness, letter confusion or rotation, and crowding.

Inferencing / Indirect Questions

The Art and Science of Teaching / Teaching Inference

An article describing four questions readers can ask themselves to make better inferences.

Skills and Strategies | Making Inferences

An article from the New York Times describing strategies to make inferences. It uses examples from the Times, so it's a good example for students who don't read newspapers much.

Direct Questions

Reading Strategies to Save Time

Descriptions of previewing text, skimming, scanning, and intensive reading from the University of New South Wales.

Reading Strategies: Skimming vs Close Reading

Descriptions of the steps taken when finding information quickly in a text, and when trying to read as deeply as possible.

Writing

Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Several strategies for teaching writing at the secondary level from the Institute of Education Sciences in the US.

Develop High School Students’ Writing Skills

A summary of a 2007 paper by Graham and Perin, who investigated current research to determine the best strategies for improving high school students’ writing skills.

14 Strategies to Support Struggling Writers: Build Confidence & Increase Success

The title is fairly self-explanatory. Gives a good structure for developing writing skills.

Interventions for Students with Writing Disabilities

Gives good examples of different ways that students can struggle with writing.


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