Using the EIRŽ Program -
Internet Resources
Readings and materials that you might find helpful in your teaching (e.g., prompts to foster self-reliance in word recognition) can be downloaded as PDF files at the end of each module. To facilitate the printing of a manual to accompany this program, Module 43 contains all of the readings and additional instructional materials available as PDF files.
If you must miss a group meeting, or if you wish to review a module on your own, you will be able to do so using your password, which will give you access to the Internet program. Please do not share this password with others. Again, it is important to consistently meet with others, to share successes, to brainstorm solutions to problems, and to collectively reflect on teaching practices.
Play Audio 1.2 on the EIR CD.
I hope you enjoy the EIRŽ Professional Development Program. For 12 years I have experienced the joy of listening to excited teachers, typically during February, as they talk about the wonderful progress they are seeing with their students. If you follow the EIRŽ program as intended, I am confident that you, too, will be excited about the progress you see in your students. Best wishes for a successful year!
Large group activity
Discuss the plan described above for using the EIRŽ Professional Development Program and jot down questions which you would like to ask you EIRŽ trainer.
Downloadable and Viewable Resources:
References:
- Taylor, B., Pearson, P.D., Clark, K., & Walpole, S. "Effective Schools and Accomplished Teachers: Lessons about Primary Grade Reading Instruction in Low-Income Schools" The Elementary School Journal 010 (2000): 121-165. Also published as a Technical Report
- Taylor, Pearson, Clark, & Walpole, (1999) "Beating the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read: Lessons from Effective Schools and Accomplished Teachers" CIERA, Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement. (1999). Summary available as a downloadable PDF file.
- Taylor, Pearson, Clark, & Walpole . "Effective Schools/Accomplished Teachers." The Reading Teacher 53 (1999) 156-159.
- Taylor, B.M.(2001). The Early Intervention in Reading Program (EIRŽ); Research and Development Spanning Twelve Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Taylor, B.M., Critchley, C.R., MacDonald, K. and Miron H.(2002). The Early Intervention in Reading Program: Internet-Supported Professional Development and It's Impact on Children's Reading Progress. Manuscript submitted for publication.
 
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