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• A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy
  If "an apple a day will keep the doctor away", then perhaps a-rhyme-a-week will keep school failure at bay. WIL's A-Rhyme-a-Week phonological awareness program features 28 different nursery rhymes.
• Colorín Colorado
  The phrase "Colorín Colorado" appears at the end of virtually all children’s stories and fairy tales in Spanish-speaking countries - it translates roughly to "and they lived happily ever after." The website includes information, activities, and advice for parents and educators of Spanish-Speaking students.
• Effective Comprehension Instruction
  A powerpoint presentation for Nevada Reading First, January, 2004, by Nell Duke , Michigan State University.
• Fun & Games for English Practice
  The Place for English Language Learners includes activities,teachers resources, etc. Resources include materials in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
• Games
  This site of interactive activities includes making words, vocabulary, concept of word, phonics, alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and others.
• GET READY TO READ
  THIS WEBSITE has helpful information for both concerned parents and eager teachers.It has preschool teaching ideas,reading and learning activities and programs for early learners. This site contains a 20-question research-based screening tool for use with young children.
• Go to Paivi�s Library
  This site features stories that focus on different sounds. Categories include broad o, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, long and short vowels, silent letters and tricky endings, and others.
• Power for Kids: For Parents and Teachers
  This is an engaging website.It has literacy ideas and programs such as short story and letter activities.Parents can use this activities for their children at home easily.
• Reading is Fundamental
  This website provides ideas for parents to encourage reading at home. Topics include motivating kids to read, choosing good books, reading aloud, literacy-rich homes, and school connections.
• Songs
  This site features video and audio clips of songs to reinforce early literacy acquisition and phonics concepts.
• Stories
  This Web site is for parents or teachers and their kids to surf together. It contains both printable versions of stories as well as stories to read on line.
• Take Me To Your Readers
  This website was developed as part of Vanderbilt University�s �Young Children's Literacy Project.� The project is in its tenth year of research on the development of children's reading and writing skills - funded under a 1999-2003 grant from the IERI consortium of the National Science Foundation; the Department of Education; and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The project developed and tested new print and technology-supported tools to improve the reading skills of children in grades K - 2, targeting word-recognition skills and the development of literacy habits.
• The Reading Process
  This Clark County (NV) School District site provides information on guided reading, modeled reading, shared reading, independent reading, and vocabulary. Video clips of lessons are included for spelling/word study, phonics, and the alphabetic principle.
• The Writing Process
  This Clark County (NV) School District site provides information on writing traits, modeled writing, shared writing, and guided writing. In addition, it features a video clip of an interactive writing lesson.
• Things to Print
  This site includes practice with short vowel sounds, word blending, alphabet skills, listening skills, word finding, and other activities to support early literacy development.
• Where Children Love to Learn and Learn to Grow
  This site is created for helping teachers and parents. There are lessons plans and units, presented by grade level.