Study looking at which interventions and components were found to be most effective in improving the writing of students with learning disabilities, and what is the strength of their effects?

Small research study to examine benefits of students with disabilities using two different text-to-speech programs.

Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.

There is an increase in studying the relationship between comics and graphics with reading and writing. This article shares the comprehension success of a first grade ELL classroom.

This article suggests a method for beginning to teach reading to students unfamiliar with the "Romanized" alphabet.  The method was originally developed for young native-speakers, and the author suggests adaptations to fit EFL/ESOL students.

In this 5 page article (I printed it - oops!) the author gives her opinion of the usefulness of blogging within the EFL classroom. However she proceeds to say that 'blogging doesn't just happen' and that students need to be taught how to blog etc.

This paper describes the importance of guiding students to use blogs (Web logs) for educational purposes. While blogs are commonly thought of as "simply happening," in fact, educators in a media literate world need to rethink and redefine best practices for using this tool.