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Dr. Tim Rasinski Joins
Reading Plus Team

Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. He has written over 150 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 15 books or curriculum programs on reading education. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research.

Professor Rasinski recently served a three year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and from 1992 to 1999 he was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. He is also a past-president of the College Reading Association and he has won the A. B. Herr Award from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education.

Prior to coming to Kent State Tim taught literacy education at the University of Georgia. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and Title I teacher in rural Nebraska.

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School Districts In
The News!

At Trautmann Elementary in United ISD, Laredo, Texas, students that were on the Reading Plus Program scored higher on the SRI (independent evaluation) than students who were not on the program. Cynthia Rodriguez, Principal.

At Winnsboro ISD, high school students increased their ACT scores from a 25 to a 28 after being on the Reading Plus Program. Phyllis Stone, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction.

At Fort Bend ISD, 24 of the 26 Special Education students that piloted the Reading Plus Program last semeter passed the TAKS!




Visagraph: Measures Fluency Efficiency


* Fixations: the number of eye stops made while reading a 100 word passage.

* Regressions: Backward eye movements.

* Span of Recognition: The amount of text that is recognized during each eye stop.

* WPM: Words read per minute.

* Cross correlation: How well your eyes work together.

* Anomalies: Irregular eye movements.






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