Web links as of Novermber 23, 2008

Here are some links to literacy websites for teachers and parents:

"Into the Book" provides teachers with posters, songs and video clips to use when teaching reading comprehension strategies.

http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/inferring/infer_teachervideo.html

”The Reading Lady” is a good resource for comprehension strategies, author studies, poetry, Six Trait writing, assessment, reader’s theater, and a very interesting blog.

http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=3

Using the “Writing Site” is a great way to understand how to score students' writings by viewing exemplar papers. These papers can be downloaded in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed), duplicated and given to students or projected on a screen to use for instructional purposes.

http://www.thewritingsite.org/exemplars/index.asp

The “Reading is Fundamental” site has lesson plans, advice and tips, articles, web resources, and a wonderful  parent component.

http://www.rif.org/

"Cando’s Helper" is a site for parents and teachers looking for content and reading practice in the primary grades.

http://candohelperpage.com/index.html

The International Reading Association site is an excellent resource for just about every literacy investigation that could be done.  There is extensive information on comprehension, ELL, beginning reading, assessment, RtI, technology, struggling learners, and recommended articles for teachers and parents. 

http://www.reading.org/resources/index.html

“Intervention Central” is a site created by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from central New York. Visit this site to check out newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools for classroom assessment and intervention. 

http://www.interventioncentral.org/

“OKAPI!” is a web-based application that allows you to enter a text sample and to format that sample as a set of Examiner and Student Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) reading probes. The application also computes a readability index for the sample. “OKAPI!” can save you hours of work in creating correctly formatted CBA reading probes that include estimates of reading level.

http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapimanual/okapimanual.php#keypts

A  great site for fourth grade teachers is “Inside Angela’s Fourth Grade Classroom.”

http://blogs.scholastic.com/3_5/2008/11/fluency-concern.html#more

“Beth Newingham’s Third Grade” is an amazing site full of beautifully created lessons and downloadable posters. This is where the beautiful genre posters are located.  I would recommend this site to all K-5 teachers.

http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/

“Reading A-Z”  is another very thorough site for literacy instruction.  It contains leveled readers, benchmark books with running records, reading lessons and worksheets, phonics and phonemic awareness materials, poetry books, alphabet materials, high-frequency word books, vocabulary books and activities, fluency passages, reader’s theater passages/scripts and assessments.  This is one site definitely worth some of your valuable time.

http://www.readinga-z.com/index.php

 

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