Dr. Lynn Vernon-Feagans, Primary Investigator, discusses the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), its goals, and its successes.

The most recent national consensus document on literacy focuses on early literacy research.  Particular attention is given to which children's characteristics predict later literacy outcomes.  Download the free executive summary or the entire report here or order a free hard copy.

After a brief, free online sign-up, you may download the Society for Quality Education's Stairway to Reading materials.  The Reading Materials are organized by sound, and they may be particularly useful for working with children at the Green or Purple levels of Word Work.  The games, bingo and crazy letters, may also be helpful TRI Extensions.

More advanced readers may have fun reading lots of silly poems and rating each one on this site--Giggle Poetry.  Many other poetry reads are available, including short readers' theater.  Poetry can inspire many students to read, and re-read, and re-read again. Among other virtues, performing poetry is a wonderful way to inspire re-reading practice for fluency building.

Personalize your student's reading material and ask them to say the sounds as they write them, too, with this free handwriting worksheet website.

The intital host of the TRI from 2004-2010. The National Research Center for Rural Education Support (NRCRES) is a research center funded by the Institute for Educational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The NRCRES focuses on research on significant problems in rural education. Founded in 2004 at The University of North Carolina.

In 2000, the National Reading Panel issued a widely-influential report on early reading development and instruction that formed the basis of the Reading First legislation of the No Child Left Behind Act.  Ask for a free copy of the report.

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children is a seminal consensus document that you can purchase or read online that presents a comprehensive picture of how and why children learn to read, why they sometimes struggle, and what we can do about it.