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Reading Strategies
All America Reads
http://www.allamericareads.org/
All America Reads is a nationwide project designed to encourage reading
and discussion; the project selects a novel and provides numerous lesson
plans and resources for educators and students.
Teacher's Resource Center
http://www.randomhouse.com/index.html
This is one of the best websites for young adult literature. The detailed
descriptions, illustrated with pictures of the books' covers, are accompanied
by excerpts from independent reviews and by extensive teaching ideas.
A search engine enables users to find
a specific book without scanning
the entire web page.
Reading in the Content Areas: Strategies for Success
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/12
This article stresses that content teachers can structure lessons to
assist struggling readers when they are reading content-based material.
Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices
and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Lesson Plans
The Educator's Reference Desk
http:www.eduref.org
Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, Search ERIC Database
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
Many web sites to language arts lesson plans are linked here; includes
poetry, story arts, Shakespeare, Chaucer, young adult authors and creative
writing for teens.
Library-In-The-Sky Language Arts Lesson Plans
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/mat.asp?ID=3&search=2&m=23&d=6
A collection of lesson plans for grades up to 12th.
SCORE: Language Arts
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Find lesson plans indexed by the California framework's themes, topics,
and grade levels.
Language Arts Resources Portal
http://teams.lacoe.edu/teachers/index.asp
Begin your comprehensive search here by categories such as authors,
grammar, comprehension and assessment.
Adding Snap to Lesson Plans
http://webs.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/lessonPlan045.shtml
Students take photographs of themselves, animals, and objects and
use
these photos as springboards for writing stories, plays, photo captions,
comic strips, ads for products, and greeting card messages.
Best Sites for Teachers
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index.html
A wealth of resources for educators. Free lesson plans, educational
materials,
word games, puzzles, links to thousands of resources.
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Assessment/Diagnostics
Diagnostics Instruments
http://www.fcrr.org/assessment/PDFfiles/DiagnosticTools.pdf
This list of assessment instruments for primary and secondary levels
was generated through a review conducted by the Just Read, Florida!
Office in consultation with the Florida Center for
Reading Research
(FCRR).
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
The reading scoring guide provides criteria for scoring students'
responses
(Grades 3-12):
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/ReadingScoringGuide.PDF
Traits of an effective reader rubrics measures the quality of students'
thinking process:
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/ReadingGrades4-12Rubrics.pdf
The Journey of a Reader: K-12 Assessment Tasks and Tools explores how readers develop critical reading skills, how
teachers can convey those
skills to students and how those skills can be evaluated both formally
and informally:
http://www.nwrel.org/nwreport/feb99/article2.html
Florida Related Sites
FCAT Explorer
http://www.fcatexplorer.org/main_content.asp
FCAT Explorer is a practice and skills reinforcement tool based on Florida's
Sunshine State Standards and provides practice skills for 4th, 6th,
8th and 10th grade reading.
FCAT 10 Reading
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/FCAT10R/DEFAULT.HTM
This program from the University of South Florida and Pinellas County
School District includes rubric scoring, sample tests and teaching strategies
to help teachers prepare 10th grade students for the FCAT reading test.
Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
http://www.fcrr.org
FCRR will provide assistance to all districts receiving a Reading First
Award, disseminate information about research-based practices and conduct
basic research on reading.
Florida DOE - FCAT Sample Items
http://www.firn.edu/doe/sas/fcat/fcatsmpl.htm
The Florida Department of Education links to FCAT sample reading test
materials for Grades 3-10.
Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD)
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/
FOR-PD will provide free, online professional development for Florida
teachers (K-12) in reading methods and research-based strategies designed
to help students become better readers.
Florida Reading Association
http://www.flreads.org/
The Florida Reading Association promotes quality literacy instruction,
advocates life-long reading, clarifies educational issues for decision
makers and supports research in literacy. One special interest group
is the Secondary Reading Council.
Just Read, Florida!
http://www.justreadflorida.com/
The Just Read, Florida! initiative works with local school districts,
educators, parents and community members to review current reading programs
and make recommendations on reading standards, effective teaching strategies
and reading course requirements.
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Literacy-Related Organizations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
http://eric.indiana.edu/
Middle Grades Reading Network
http://www2.evansville.edu/mgrnweb/
This Indiana organization has links to articles and publications to
help promote voluntary reading among young adolescents.
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
http://www.ala.org/yalsa
A section of the American Library Association, YALSA links to professional
resources, best books for young adults, winning titles and the results
of a survey on the most important authors for young adults.
National Institute for Literacy
http://www.nifl.gov/
Disseminates information on scientifically based reading research pertaining
to children, youth, and adults as well as information about development
and implementation of classroom reading programs based on the research.
National Reading
Conference
http://www.nrconline.org/
Engages in literacy research and dialogue around literacy and related
topics.
The Partnership for Reading
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/
Offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children,
adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research.
Explore this site for information on the research, principles about
reading instruction suggested by the research, and products for parents,
teachers, administrators, and policy-makers.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teachercreate.html
Teacher
Created Resources (Boardmaker/Intellipics, etc.)
http://www.flashcardexchange.com
The place to create, study, print, download and share flashcards.
http://www.songs4teachers.com -
Theme related poems and song words
http://usevisualstrategies.com-
Provides tools to help improve communication. Articles, pictures, books
and products.
http://marcias-lesson-links.com/ChildrensLit.html
A site containing a multitude of literacy links listed by grade levels,
cultures, and topics.
http://www.callier.utdallas.edu/ACT/res.html#literacy
Site that facilitates literacy skills for students who use AAC devices.
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David
Edyburn recommended Web sites:
Audio Books
http://www.donjohnston.com
Reading Strategies for Older Students- Provides a full array of
critical intervention products.
http://www.aph.org
American Printing
House for the Blind- Provides specialized materials, products and
services needed for education and life.
http://www.booksaloud.org
Audio library for the visually, physically and learning disabled of
all ages.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped that offers
a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to
eligible borrowers in the US by postage-free mail.
http://www.rfbd.org
Recordings for
the Blind and Dyslexic- the national educational library for those with
print disabilities.
e-texts Via Membership
http://www.bookshare.org/
Has accessible books for people with visual or other print disabilities.
e-texts in the Public Domain
http://www.bibliomania.com
FREE on-line literature with more than 2000 classic texts.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Electronic Text Center - Combines an on-line archive of electronic
texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software
suitable for the creation and analysis of text.
http://www.loc.gov
Library of Congress
- Words, pictures and sound, more than a library.
http://www.worditude.com
Contains
current and public domain literature in ebook file formats, free to
download.
http://promo.net/pg/
Project Gutenberg-
The internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
Ready Reference
http://www.askjeeves.com
A search engine.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
A great resource to look up words. Also contains a thesaurus and links
to other dictionary resources in foreign languages and translators.
http://refdesk.com
RefDesk-Indexes
and reviews quality, credible and current information-based sites and
assists readers in navigating these sites.
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Scan Print Materials using OCR Software
http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/ - OmniPage-Turns PDF into editable word processing and apreadsheet documents.
Scan
Print Materials Using OCR Software & Text-to-Speech
http://www.texthelp.com
TextHelp-A
range of software products designed to help computer users improve their
reading and writing skills.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/
A line of products that help people read, write, study and take
tests more effectively.
Language Translation
http://world.altavista.com
Bablefish. Translate a block of text or webpages from/to English and
a multitude of other languages.
Talking Word
Processors
http://www.readplease.com
FREE text to speech software.
Text to Speech
Conversion Software
http://www.textaloud.com
Convert
any text to speech and even to MP3. Listen to email, web pages, eBooks
and documents.
Making Your Own
Books
http://Audiobookmaker.com -
Information about text-reading software which can speak any text using
different human voices.
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