Lending Library
The Purdue University College of Education’s Teaching Resource Center (TRC) houses a lending library of children’s books and YA literature, curated by literacy faculty and K-12 educators.
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Center for Literacy and Language Education and Research
The Center for Literacy and Language Education and Research (CL²EAR) is committed to enhancing the overall quality of literacy and language instruction for PK-12 students through its research, policy transformation, and high-quality teacher development.
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The Reading Forum
The purpose of Reading Forum is to provide access to science-based research and practice to teachers, parents, and policymakers.
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Read to Succeed
To bolster the support available to young readers in their early literacy journey, Read to Succeed places volunteers in K-5 classrooms across Tippecanoe County every year. Volunteers match with a local teacher and join their classroom for at least one hour a week for the duration of the academic year.
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Literacy and Language Development Clinics
Purdue’s Literacy and Language Development Clinics (LLDC) offer an array of service options tailored to individual school populations’ needs, and resources for literacy and language development for grades K-6. Clinical services include needs assessment, screening, and one-on-one Intervention.
Teacher Release Project
The Teacher Release Project offers school districts up to one hour of teacher release time per month per classroom while Purdue educators lead classrooms in research-based reading and writing activities (given parent/guardian permission and child assent).
Advancing Science of Reading (SoR) in Indiana
Cross-disciplinary faculty are advancing the Science of Reading in Indiana through research, research-based professional development, licensure, intercampus collaboration, and connected state leadership.
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CL²EAR Briefs are a series of short reports that address topics of interest related to literacy and language education. They are intended to provide educators, administrators, and policymakers with an overview of research and practical applications on current issues in the field. CL²EAR Briefs can be accessed below.
Essentials of Adolescent Literacy
Literacy skills are essential for academic success in school, in postsecondary education and the workforce, as well as for effective communication in our personal lives. As students progress through middle and high school, the level of literacy required increases significantly…
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Developmental Trajectories of Phonological and Morphological Awareness: Implications for Literacy Instruction
The Science of Reading (SoR) has brought attention to the cognitive-linguistic foundations of literacy development, emphasizing that learning to read is not a natural process but one that depends on specific underlying skills that must be explicitly supported (Castles et…
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Integrating Science of Reading Principles into Mathematics Instruction in Early Education
As states increasingly emphasize evidence-based instruction in both literacy and mathematics, educator preparation programs have an opportunity to help future teachers understand how these domains support one another. Language and literacy are foundational to mathematical thinking, communication, and problem solving….
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Undergraduate Students and In-Service Teachers
We hire undergraduate preservice and in-service teachers. If you have taken 300 level literacy and language teaching methods coursework in the College of Education or equivalent and would like to work children one-on-one as a literacy/language clinic tutor, please contact us for training and placement.
Graduate Students
We are recruiting graduate students! If you are a current or potential graduate student interested in literacy or language education and would like to be involved with any CL²EAR-affiliated research projects, please contact us.
Teachers and Schools
We partner with teachers and schools. If you are interested in training, license additions, professional development or school-based research partnership, please contact us.
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Wayne E. Wright
Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Programs and Faculty Development & Professor and Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language
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