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NGS/LARC Literacy Institute 2008  |
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When: July 9-10, 2008 |
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Where: Washington, DC |
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Details available at: http://www.literacyinstitute.org/ |
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New Assessment Materials Now Available: The Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA)™ and the Informational Strategic Cloze Assessment (ISCA)™ |
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We are pleased to announce the availability of two new assessments of informational reading comprehension: The Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA)™ for grades one and two and the Informational Strategic Cloze Assessment (ISCA)™ for grades one, two, and three. Both assessments are designed to measure four contributors to reading comprehension: comprehension strategy use, vocabulary strategy use and knowledge, knowledge of informational text features, and comprehension of graphics in the context of text.
We are making the ISCA™ and COCA™ assessments and all associated materials (including administration and scoring training videos) available free for download at the following links:
Informational Strategic Cloze Assessment (ISCA)™
Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA)™
We are grateful for generous support provided to this project by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Literacy Achievement Research Center. |
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Patricia Edwards's Presidential Address from National Reading Conference 2007:
Video now available online!
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In November 2007, Michigan State University professor and LARC Principal Investigator Pat Edwards gave the Presidential Address at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Her presentation -- entitled "The Education of African American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions" -- is now available for online viewing. To view this informative and inspirational presentation, click here.
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Nell K. Duke's Presentation from the 2008 Wisconsin State Reading Association Convention |
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To download a copy of the powerpoint presentation, titled "Beyond bedtime stories: Ways parents and early childhood educators can build literacy in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers," click here. |
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Help spread the word about
LARC! |
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Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy:
Research We Have, Research We Need (April, 2008)
by Mark W. Conley, Joseph R. Freidhoff, Michael B. Sherry, & Steven F. Tuckey (Eds.)
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This edited volume features chapters by speakers at the Fall 2006 LARC Research Symposium on adolescent literacy. These distinguished contributing authors offer their analysis of the existing knowledge base on adolescent literacy, discuss implications for classroom instruction, and outline an agenda for future research. Specific topics include fluency, literacy coaching, and interventions for struggling readers. The book also includes chapters about teaching and learning content-area literacy, literacy development of African-American adolescent males, and literacy in math and science classrooms.
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