- America
Reads Challenge - Program seeks to have every American child reading
well and independently by the end of 3rd grade. Site includes directory
of program participants, resource kit, and information on getting involved.
- Book Adventure - A free
on-line reading program encourages students in grades K-8 to read more
often, for longer periods of time, and with greater understanding. Requires
free registration.
- Booktalks
-- Quick and Simple - Database of over 600 ready-to-use booktalks.
Designed for K-12 teachers and librarians.
- The Catch Up Programme
- Literacy intervention program designed for use with primary school
children who have difficulty with reading and writing.
- Cerbranetics Institute
- Provides free phonics lesson to teachers and parents. Material may
be used with students who have dyslexia.
- CyberGuides
- Standards-based, teacher-designed, Web-searching and writing/reading
activities for K-12 students; based on core literature.
- Issues in Literacy
Development - Summarizes the research and professional expertise
related to literacy instruction for students from kindergarten through
Grade 8.
- KidBibs - Identifies strategies
and resources to help children become better readers, writers, and learners.
- Mrs. ABC's Spelling and Phonics Curriculum
- Interactive site helps students learn spelling, phonics, alphabetical
order, rhyming, punctuation and capitalization. Requires free registration.
- Nerd
World: Education - Literature - Links related to the teaching of
literature.
- The Phonics Room -
Provides poems, songs, literature, and other activities related to the
letters of the alphabet.
- Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children - A guide to prevention and
intervention.
- Reading
and Language Arts Resources on the Web - Annotated directory of
some 200 sites on phonics, whole language, lesson plans, and reading
research.
- Reading Comprehension
- Includes weekly worksheets for upper elementary and middle school
levels.
- The Reading Genie - Links
and lessons about learning to read including research based methods.
- Read In- A one-day-a-year Internet
event that lets thousands of children around the world talk to famous
authors and with each other.
- Reading-n-Phonics
- Learn to read using phonics. Interactive phonics lessons for preschool
and kindergarten children use colorful pictures and stories.
- Reading Online - A journal
for literacy educators K-12; includes articles, commentaries, reviews,
and discussion forums.
- Reading Rainbow - The Official
Web Site - Companion site to the PBS program provides classroom
activities to accompany daily programs as well as information on annual
young writers' and illustrators' competitions.
- ReadingLady.com - The place
where teachers can turn to find ready to go units, as well as information
about reading and learning with other teachers. Lesson plans are ready
to go in your classroom.
- Rhode Island READS
- Statewide program utilizes AmeriCorps*VISTA workers and other volunteers
to increase literacy among children, and promote and support literacy
programs.
- Speed Reading
Self-Pacing Methods - By Dennis Doyle - Glendale Community College.
Provides simple motion techniques to increase reading speed.
- Speed Reading Software-
Unleash your reading genius with RocketReader. FREE trial download.
Try speed reading and advance in your career and studies today with
RocketReader.
- Succeed to Read - Provides
tips and techniques parents and teachers can use to teach children how
to read.
- Teachers' Developmental
Reading Resource For Young Adult Fiction - Metasite containing original
summaries, reviews, and readability assessment of YA fiction. Lots of
resource links
- Using
Picture Books to Teach Narrative Writing Traits - Bibliography contains
annotations for narrative writing traits, character traits, and curriculum
connections.
- What is
Speed Reading? - Provides a basic guide to speed reading.
- Whirlwind Basic Reading
Through Dance - Organization partners with teachers to improve children's
language arts and learning skills through the arts.
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