- America Reads Challenge
Calls on Americans to support teachers and help ensure that every child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade.
www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/index.html
- Between the Lions
Companion site to the PBS Kids' show combining puppetry, animation, live action, and music to achieve its educational mission of helping young children learn to read.
pbskids.org/lions
- Center for Early Literacy Information (CELI)
Resource for researchers, teachers, families, school administrators, and others who are looking for early literacy information from a variety of sources including articles, books, reports, technical papers, and more.
www.earlyliteracyinfo.org
- Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) - University at Albany, State University of New York
Conducts research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy in schools across the U.S.
cela.albany.edu
- Children's Book Week (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Literacy/Children_s_Book_Week
- Choice Literacy
Resources for K-12 literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school leaders including reading comprehension strategies tools, writing workshop advice, and literacy professional development design tools.
www.choiceliteracy.com
- DIBELS
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.
dibels.uoregon.edu
- Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)
National DEAR Day is a special reading celebration to remind and encourage families to make reading together on a daily basis a family priority. It is celebrated on April 12th, which is also the birthday of beloved author Beverly Cleary.
www.dropeverythingandread.com
- Greenwood Institute
Offers courses with an emphasis on dyslexia for literacy teachers in mainstream and specialized schools.
www.greenwoodinstitute.org/institute/inindex.html
- Guys Read
Literacy initiative for boys from Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. The mission is to motivate boys to read by connecting them with materials they will want to read, in ways they like to read.
www.guysread.com
- Jen Robinson's Book Page
Promoting the love of books by children, and the continued reading of children's books by adults.
jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog
- Jim Trelease on Reading
Official site for educator Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook. Offers news, book reviews, reading lists, and recommended web sites.
www.trelease-on-reading.com
- Literacy and Education
Offers assorted links to papers on literacy and education, as well as links to several related gopher archives.
eserver.org/literacy
- Literacy Connections
Provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, and the best in children's literature.
www.literacyconnections.com
- Literacy Project
A resource for teachers, literacy organizations, and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO?s Institute for Lifelong Learning.
www.google.com/literacy
- LiteracyWeb Australia
Contains the keynote address of the National Literacy Conference, case studies, and literacy links.
www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb
- NEA's Read Across America
Annual March program seeking to have every child in every school across the U.S. to read with an adult. Find activity ideas, media tips, PR tools, materials, and resources to help plan a reading event.
www.readacrossamerica.com
- Read for the Record
Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a national campaign designed to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults from across the country to read the same book on the same day. The goal of Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign is to raise public awareness about significant disparities in early education.
www.readfortherecord.org
- Read*Write*Now
A national initiative of the U.S. Department of Education to improve reading and writing achievement among elementary and high school students.
www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN
- Reading First
Focused nationwide effort to enable all students to become successful early readers. Program focuses on students in kindergarten through third grade.
www.ed.gov/programs/readingfirst/index.html
- Reading Rockets
National multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, why some struggle, and how adults can help.
www.readingrockets.org
- ReadKiddoRead.com
Find great books for your children or the children you teach. Bestselling author James Patterson's site guides you through titles, reviews, and exclusive content on the books children will love, and readies you when they ask for more.
readkiddoread.com
- ReadWriteThink
Offers lesson plans, practices, and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
www.readwritethink.org
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