Section 1: Knowledge of Emergent Literacy and Reading
Components of Effective Reading Instruction: Comprehension

Required Reading

The Big Ideas: Comprehension

http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/comp/comp_programs.php

Don't Wait to Address the Fourth-Grade Slump in Reading

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr11/vol68/num07/Don't-Wait-Until-4th-Grade-to-Address-the-Slump.aspx

Helping Struggling Readers

http://www.readingrockets.org/helping

Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon, by Michael Pressley:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7585/89eade45b7d230fdd7acca8dd5b65524dc07.pdf

Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/rocketsci.pdf

Comprehension Strategies

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/3479

http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/comp/comp_dr_1.php