The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)
The NCFL is recognized as the worldwide leader in family literacy development. NCFL works with educators and community builders through an array of services to design and sustain programs that meet the most urgent educational needs of disadvantaged families.
www.famlit.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation’s largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.
www.naeyc.org

International Reading Association
The International Reading Association is a professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. IRA members include classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants, administrators, supervisors, university faculty, researchers, psychologists, librarians, media specialists, and parents.
www.reading.org

LDonline
LD Online is the leading web site on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals. The service offers the latest information on issues such as ADD/ADHD, special education, assessment, and adult issues.
www.ldanatl.org/

American Association of School Administrators
AASA, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for over 14,000 educational leaders across America and in many other countries. AASA’s mission is to support and develop effective school system leaders who are dedicated to the highest quality public education for all children.
www.aasa.org

American Educational Research Association
The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
www.aera.net

American Federation of Teachers
A group of teachers founded AFT to protect their professional interests, benefit the people they served and create strong local unions affiliated with the labor movement. The AFT has grown into a trade union representing workers in education, health care, and public service.
www.aft.org

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ASCD, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan education association committed to the mission of forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners. Founded in 1943, ASCD provides professional development in curriculum and supervision; initiates and supports activities to provide educational equity for all students; and serves as a world-class leader in education information services.
www.ascd.org

National Board of Professional Teaching Standards
The mission of the National Board is to establish high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do, to develop and operate a national voluntary system to assess and certify teachers who meet these standards, and to advance related education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.
www.nbpts.org

National Education Association
The NEA's work ranges from coordinating innovative projects to restructuring how learning takes place to fighting congressional attempts to privatize public education.
www.nea.org

Ask Eric
Welcome to the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication! It is dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts.
ericir.syr.edu

Booklist
Welcome to the digital counterpart of the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine.
www.ala.org/booklist/index.html

BookSpot
Bookspot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book related content on the web.
www.bookspot.com

Colorado Family Literacy Consortium
Colorado family literacy consortium improves and expands family literacy services by developing and disseminating: 1) policies and procedures to improve student achievement, 2)info and training to literacy professionals, and 3)performance plans and indicators.
www.coloradoliteracy.net

Columbia Education Center
Mini-Lessons for K-5 from the Columbia Education Center. Grade level for each is marked.
http://www.col-ed.org/

Discovery School
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. This site utilizes pull-down menus to browse by subject, grade, or both.
school.discovery.com

Education News
Updated daily, this site provides summaries and links to the top news articles and commentaries on education, from newspapers across the country and the world. Free online subscription allows you to receive a daily e-mail news update.
www.educationnews.org


Education Planet
Education Planet is a K-12 web services company designed to help teachers, students, and parents easily find and utilize teacher approved educational resources, web tools and e-learning services. It features a database of more than 100,000 educational resources. Teachers use Education Planet to search over 16,000 lesson plans, utilize powerful teacher web tools, share teaching ideas and learn more about how to integrate technology into curriculum.
www.educationplanet.com

Education Week
This online edition of America’s top educational newspaper features daily news and current and archived issues of Education Week and Teacher Magazine.
www.edweek.org

Education World
Education World features a search engine for educational Web sites only, news from USA Today, monthly site reviews, employment listings, and original content such as lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom.
www.education-world.com


Education Place
Elementary resources for teachers, students, and parents.
www.eduplace.com

Kids @ Random
Kids @ Random, Random House Children’s Publishing site for young readers features book reviews, chat groups, contests, and more.
www.randomhouse.com

Kim’s Korner for Teacher Talk
This is a teacher created site full of lessons and ideas for six trait writing, reading, literature, and many areas of classroom management, including getting organized. Although intended for middle school teachers, most of the ideas at Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk can be easily adapted for other grade levels.
www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com

Learning Network
Learning Network aims to satisfy every learner’s needs by offering learning solutions in five separate but interrelated resource areas: K-12, serving students, parents, and teachers, College, Professional Development, Lifelong Learning and Reference Channel.
www.fen.com

Phonics-Spelling-Whole Language: How we put them together for the best of both worlds
Reprinted from the College of Education, University of Oregon
www.riggsinst.org

Puzzle Choice
An award winning site with printable and interactive puzzles and games for all ages. There are twenty different types of crosswords to choose from plus wordsearches, quizzes, logic puzzles, brainteasers, number puzzles, mazes, jigsaws and online games. There is a separate kid’s menu with puzzles, games, rhymes and teacher resources. Fun and educational.
www.puzzlechoice.com

Reading Comprehension Connection
Interactive online lessons to help improve students’ reading comprehension and build their vocabulary skills.
www.readingcomprehensionconnection.com

Reading Lady
ReadingLady.com was founded to provide personal support to teachers and offer them access to the best teaching resources on the market. Includes lesson ideas for comprehension strategy instruction, author studies, and information on the Four Blocks framework for literacy instruction.
www.readinglady.com

Resource Room
The Resource Room is a site with resources for people who learn differently, especially for people with specific language disabilities such as dyslexia or dysgraphia.
www.resourceroom.net

Scholastic
Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain, and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge the understanding of the world around them.
www.scholastic.com

Storyplus
Storyplus promotes children’s literacy and offers many original children’s stories to visitors for free.
www.storyplus.com

Teachers.Net
Teachers.Net web site provides teacher networking, columns by educators such as Alfie Kohn and Harry Wong, lesson plans, live meetings with experts, and job information.
www.teachers.net

Teachnet
Teachnet offers lesson plans in a variety of content areas, and classroom tools to help with classroom management and organization.
>www.teachnet.com

Teacher Vision
Lesson plans online with ideas for great children’s activities and classroom management advice.
www.teachervision.com

Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print
	by Marilyn Jager Adams ISBN 0262510766 Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read. Drawing on a rich array of research on the nature and development of reading proficiency, Adams shows educators that they need not remain trapped in the phonics versus teaching-for-meaning dilemma. She proposes that phonics can work together with the whole language approach to teaching reading and provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge and process involved in skillful reading, the issues surrounding their acquisition, and the implications for reading instruction.
Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment
	by Barbara J. Walker ISBN 0130837520 This text provides a tool for teachers to understand various instructional frameworks underlying diagnostic teaching techniques. It is designed as a supplement in the diagnosis and remediation of reading difficulties and is suitable for a clinical practicum. A highlight of the text is the rich collection of over 60 teaching strategies, drawn from multiple perspectives, to use with all types of children based on their individual needs.
Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children
	by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell ISBN0435088637 Guided Reading was written for K-3 classroom teachers, reading resource teachers, preservice teachers, teacher educators, researchers, administrators, and staff developers. Based on the authors' nine years of research and development, it explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by reading aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches. While there is an entire chapter devoted solely to the process by which children become literate, every chapter presents theoretical underpinnings for the practices it suggests.
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop>
	by Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann ISBN 0435072374 How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmerman embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers--a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and reflection. Mosaic of Thought chronicles the journey, which ultimately led the authors to elaborate on eight cognitive processes identified in comprehension research and used by successful readers. These serve as models for the strategies offered in this book--strategies intended to help children become more flexible, adaptive, independent, and engaged readers.
Off Track: When Poor Readers Become Learning Disabled
	by Louise Spear-Swerling, Robert J. Sternberg ISBN 0813387574 In this book, the authors identify the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon. In order to diagnose and help children, educators and parents need to understand the multiple sources of reading difficulty before they can choose appropriate means to correct it.
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum
	by Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R. Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, Terri Beeler ISBN 1557663211 Phonemic awareness is the first step in any child's journey to literacy, and more than 25% of all children don't master it by third grade. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness, this program helps young children learn to distinguish the individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings. With the unique screening method that accommodates up to 15 children at a time, educators can gauge the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing. And teachers can choose from a range of activities to use with the whole class-from simple listening games to more advanced sound manipulation exercises such as rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation.
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
	by Catherine Snow, M. Susan Burns, Peg Griffin ISBN 030906418X Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.
Reading Difficulties: Instruction and Assessment
	by Barbara Taylor, Larry A. Harris, P.David Pearson ISBN 0070631824 This new edition continues to focus on informal, teacher-led assessment and correction of reading difficulties using regular classroom reading materials. This focus on informal rather than formal (clinical) assessment and its detailed descriptions of instructional procedures set it apart from the competition.
Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers
	by Louisa Cook Moats ISBN 1557663874 This thorough and well-written book ties textbook theory to classroom practice, transcribing the process of learning how to read-from speech to print! Working through the exercises will enable you to recognize, understand, and solve problems that children encounter when learning to read and write. Self-tests are included within the chapters for you to rehearse the language skills presented. Complete with case studies, field-tested lesson plans and their adaptations, and extensive appendices of answer keys, Speech to Print is your indispensable course in the art of language.
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
	by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis ISBN 1571103104 A child may be a great decoder, but that's only one step toward becoming a fluent reader. Reading implies thinking and understanding, and teachers can help children develop strategies for comprehension. Children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and to synthesize information if they are to become fluent readers. Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis show how teachers can model these strategies by thinking aloud and coding the text, lifting text onto the overhead and reasoning through it in class discussions, and bringing in their own books to model how adults use these strategies. All the while teachers give students long blocks of time to practice these strategies independently in their own reading (From the publisher).
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs
	by Richard L. Allington ISBN 0321063961 In What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, nationally recognized scholar Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles and show teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers: Children need to read a great deal to become proficient readers. Offering summaries of research on the subject, the text shows how to monitor the amount of reading and create interventions that expand reading activity. Children need access to appropriate books. Exploring the research on the subject, the text contains suggestions for designing schools where books are available and appropriate for all children. Children need to develop fluent reading to become proficient readers. Reviewing the research on reading fluency, the text provides instructional models and methods for fostering fluency.
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
	by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi , Shane Templeton , Francine R. Johnston ISBN 013021339X “Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction provides a practical way to study words with students. Based on the research on invented and developmental spelling, the framework of this text is keyed to the five stages of spelling or orthographic development. Ordered in this developmental format, Words Their Way complements the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and vocabulary curricula”.