Literacy Research

The requirements of the Strong Readers Act align with the cognitive science of how students learn to read, and utilizes the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework.

General Information

• Science of Reading white paper
• Science of Reading handbook
• Science of Reading: The Podcast
• Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science

• Center on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support 
• IES Practice Guide: Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
• National Center on Intensive Intervention
• RtI Network

• Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
• Evidence that early intervention prevents reading failure
• IES Practice Guide: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding In Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
• IES Practice Guide: Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9
• RSA Annual Growth vs. Catch Up Growth
• Scientifically-Based Reading Research

• Reading Rockets: Oral Language
• Fluent U

• Explicit Instruction for Phonological Awareness 
• Phonemic Segmentation with Dr. Louisa Moats
• Reading Rockets: Phonemic Awareness
• Tried and True Recipes for Teaching Phonological Awareness

• Orthographic Mapping (Five from Five)
• Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping
• Implementing a Sound Wall
• Reading Rockets: Phonics

• Literacy How: Spelling
• The Relationship Between Early Spelling and Decoding 

• Reading Rockets: Fluency

• Reading Rockets: Vocabulary

• Keys to Litearcy: Grammar and Syntax
• How to Teach Writing and Syntax in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade
• How Syntax Contributes to Reading Development

• IES Practice Guide: Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
• The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: The Why, The What & A Little Bit of the How

• Multisensory Techniques for Teaching Handwriting
• Pencil Grip

• IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
• Keys to Literacy: Writing
• The Writing Revolution
• The Simple View of Writing (webinar)
• Reading Rockets: Writing

• National Center on Improving Literacy
• The Reading League
• International Dyslexia Association

• Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
• University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI)

• Colorado Advisory List for Instructional Programming
• What Works Clearinghouse-Literacy

• Oklahoma Dyslexia Handbook
• About Dyslexia & Reading Problems
• International Dyslexia Association
• Middle Tennessee State University Dyslexia Center
• Misunderstood Minds

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• National Center on Intensive Intervention

literacy@sde.ok.gov

Deann Jones
Project Director,
Strong Readers
(405) 522-4098

Melissa Ahlgrim
Program Director, Literacy Policy & Programs
(405) 522-1591

Chelsea Lewis
Administrative Assistant
(405) 522-8131