Reading & Literacy Resources
These reading and literacy resources include General Resources, Research & Longer Documents, and Web Sites.
General Resources
Issues in Education | NEA
Reading issues covered include an overview of reading instruction, reading research, NEA reading resources, other reading resources, and reading in the news.
http://www.nea.org/reading/index.html
Multicultural Web Resources: Celebrate Reading 365 Days a Year
These Web resources promote multiculturalism through literature. They provide a window on the world for your students.
http://www.nea.org/webresources/readmulticult0509.html
Between the Lions: Literacy Tips for the 10-Minute Parent | PBS Kids
Here are some useful and engaging expert-approved ideas to help you teach your child to read, and have fun doing it!
http://pbskids.org/lions/tips/
Effective Reading Series | NEA
These seven short, user-friendly pamphlets were written by nationally recognized authorities in reading and expert reading teachers. The pamphlets, which provide strategies for all grades and subjects that lead to reading success, were designed for reading teachers and for members who are not reading teachers, but who nevertheless spend time on reading instruction.
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/readseriesnea040831.html
Read Across America | NEA
Started in 1998 as a way to get kids excited about reading, Read Across America has become the nation's largest reading event. The year-round program culminates each year on or near Dr. Seuss's birthday -- March 2.
http://www.nea.org/readacross/
Read and Rise
Research-based information and practical tips designed to help families ensure that their children have the necessary early literacy and pre-reading skills to prepare them to do well in school. Developed by Scholastic in partnership with the National Urban League and United Parcel Service. A free, downloadable version is available in pdf format, which requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/readandrise/ (PDF, 15pp)
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help them. Reading Rockets includes: a five-part PBS television series called "Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers"; a one-hour documentary for public television called "A Tale of Two Schools"; an extensive Web site that is updated daily; a national outreach campaign in partnership with the country's foremost education associations; a new mentoring project called "First Year Teacher"; a teleconference series for teacher professional development; and, print guides for viewers, educators, and families.
http://www.readingrockets.org/
12 Strategies for Teaching Reading | NEA
An article describes 12 strategies for teaching reading -- anticipation guides, concept cards, Directed Reading Activity, graphic organizer for pre-reading, jigsaw sentences, Know, Want to know, Learned, sound burglar, story road map, using text structure, word-a-likes, word webs -- and tells how to use each strategy.
http://www.nea.org/reading/readingstrategiessum.html
Research & Longer Documents
Put Reading First
Put Reading First describes the findings of the National Reading Panel (NRP) and provides analysis and discussion of five areas of reading instruction. NRP studies found five components essential to a child's learning to read: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Study focuses on K-3 students. From the National Institute for Literacy.
www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/
reading_first1.html#phonemic
Ten Proven Principles for Teaching Reading | U.S. Department of Education
These ten principles, based on research and practical experience, can transform reading instruction and heighten literacy for all students. The principles and ideas are interrelated and build one upon the other. This document is the NEA (2000) revised edition of State of the Art: Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning Reading (U.S. Department of Education 1993).
http://www.nea.org/reading/images/10proven.pdf
Web Sites
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes, and professional topics.
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
Children of the Code
This Web site presents a wide range of perspectives and captures the issues around learning to read. Children of the Code is a social education project and public television documentary series. It includes over 80 interviews with leading neuroscientists, psychologists, reading researchers, educators, historians, economists, technologists, and policy leaders.
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/index.htm
DIBELS - Measures of Early Literacy Development
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. Short fluency measures can be used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills. Measures are free to download and use, but registration is required.
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/index.php
The International Children's Digital Library
The goal of this 5-year project is to create a digital library of international children's books (for ages 3-13) that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature. The collection now includes over 700 titles, all available for free. The ICDL is a public library for the world, reflecting diverse cultures, perspectives, and historical periods. The ICDL searching and reading tools are now available in 9 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Filipino/Tagalog, German, Hebrew, Persian/Farsi, and Spanish. (University of Maryland)
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
Elementary Literacy Instruction | The Knowledge Loom
This area of the Knowledge Loom site presents promising practices in reading instruction for grades K-6. It focuses on developing students' thinking skills by integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening into daily classroom activities. It includes materials with specific insights and strategies to use with English language learners (ELLs), many of which can be used with all students.
http://knowledgeloom.org/practices3.jsp
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Media Literacy
The site provides background information and teaching materials on media literacy -- accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating media. Resources include a "how-to" program for teaching media literacy skills to K-5 students, with replicable structure, tools, and lesson plans; a downloadable classroom activity guide that provides 25 lesson plans for K-12 media literacy; over 350 online magazine articles; and a media literacy kit with materials for free and for sale, in English and in Spanish.
www.medialit.org/
Read Write Think
This site provides high-quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. It offers classroom activities, lesson plans, Web links, and suggested texts for monthly topics based on historical events. A collaboration of International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and Marco Polo.
www.readwritethink.org/index.asp
Reading Is Fundamental
This program provides children with hands-on activities that stimulate the desire to read and surround themselves with books to choose, keep, take home, and read. The organization honors local wisdom in the selection of motivational activities, which children to serve, what books to give children, and which segments of the community to involve in their activities. RIF adheres to the following principles:
- Always provide books for children to explore and keep.
- Always involve volunteers in children's reading (more than a third of RIF's volunteers are parents).
- Always use imaginative activities to spark a child's desire to read.
http://www.rif.org/
Virtual Spelling Bee
Brandeis University offers students in grades 2–6 a chance to compete with their peers in an online spelling bee. Registration is required. Students use a nickname to register and log in, choose a partner, and test their reading, spelling, and listening skills. No personal information is asked for or given. Players only communicate by the choices they make during the game. The site's creators hope the spirit of competition will encourage students to improve skills. (Brandeis University)
www.spellbee.org/
Updated April 2006.
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