Reading Rockets offers reading comprehension and language arts teaching strategies for kids, and is a free web site for parents and educators
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Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

Reading Research & Reports

With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and other developments, the education community is routinely using research to guide decisions about reading instruction. For easy reference, Reading Rockets has gathered some of the most important research and reports here in one place. We hope this is especially useful for policymakers, researchers, graduate students, curriculum developers, school administrators, and others.

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Whenever possible, we've provided a link to a free, online version of the research article, study, or book. In other cases, you'll find a link to a publisher, journal, or online bookstore where you can purchase the resource. You may also want to check with your university or public library, which often have access to online databases and journals where research articles and reports can be found.

Please note that general and more practitioner-oriented articles on reading can be found in the Articles A-Z section.

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