Read Write and Think
This site, hosted by the International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English and Marco Polo, includes a vast array of lessons, standards, web resources, and student materials. Check out the student materials sections for free and motivating interactive student tutorials and templates.
www.readwritethink.org
del.icio.us/Supported_etext
This site provides an extensive list of resources, supports, tools, and links to other web sites that provide a variety of supports for electronic texts. Sort by content area, cost, student population, level, type of resource, and type of support.
del.icio.us/Supported_etext
ClassZone
A web site of McDougal Littell, ClassZone provides companion web sites for students' textbooks. Access math, world languages, science, social studies, and language arts tools, resources, current events, quizzes, and online puzzles to support teachers' lesson plans.
www.classzone.com
Children's Literature Web Guide
A comprehensive site developed in Australia that offers everything from Readers' Theatre ideas to links to journals and book reviews.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Infosheets
On this site, the Council for Learning Disabilities offers overviews of information on reading for secondary students with disabilities.
www.cldinternational.org/c/@H24V9mSzbECck/
Pages/sheets.html
Instructional Strategies Resources
Hosted by the School of Education at the University of Virginia, this site includes many links related to reading comprehension, writing, and many other literacy topics. The section on comprehension includes many sites that feature graphic organizers.
curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/clic/
instructional_strategies_resources.html
Learning Strategies Database for Reading Comprehension
A resource for teachers interested in learning about reading comprehension strategies, this site discusses the purposes and advantages of reading comprehension strategies. Includes a comprehensive list of over 50 strategies for improving students' reading comprehension.
muskingum.edu/home/cal/index.html
MiddleWeb's Reading and Writing Workshop Project Index
This site is a source for online articles by Julie Kendall, handouts, and middle school reading resources.
www.middleweb.com/mw/workshop/R_W_Project.html
Misunderstood Minds—Reading
This PBS site is designed to help teachers gain insights into reading difficulties and reading strategies for students with reading difficulties.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/readingstrats.html
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
This site is designed for teachres working with non-English speakers. Search by subject area.
www.ncela.gwu.edu/
Reading/Literacy
The Education Commission of the States provides an extensive literacy section focusing on what states are doing, selected research, programs and practices, test results, and related links.
www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueid=97
Reading Online
This site is a resource for teachers who want to keep up with the latest research findings in literacy and innovative ideas for incorporating them in classrooms.
www.readingonline.org
Strategies that Work
By Harvey and Goudvis (2000), this book focuses on practical classroom comprehension strategies. For a site that summarizes their comprehension strategy work and offers classroom strategies and book lists, see the Reading Workshop site.
www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/
readingwriting/readcomp.html
VoyCabulary
This site offers the ability to make any web page a "live" glossary. It makes the words on a web page into links so that you can look them up in a dictionary or other reference site by simply clicking on the words.
www.voycabulary.com
What Does Research Say About Reading?
Published by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), this article presents major findings from cognitive psychology regarding the reading process, characteristics of poor and successful readers, characteristics of successful teaching/learning environments, and much more.
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/stw_esys/str_read.htm |
