14% of US adults don’t read well enough to understand a newspaper story written at the 8th grade level or fill out a job application.
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High Plains Educational Cooperative
This site includes great reading instruction resources from the High Plains Educational Cooperative (HPEC) of Southwest Kansas. The organization provides area special education students with programs that serve students whose unique learning needs cannot fully be met without intervention; believing these students require specially designed instruction to enable them to achieve their fullest potential. HPEC is on the leading edge of innovative practices, built off the foundation that inclusive environments are critical for effective learning and teaching. Great list of publications and websites on effective reading instruction in support of the National Reading Panel's Report of 2000's five components of effective reading instruction – what HPEC calls "the five big ideas" – can be found here.
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