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• Coaching and Mentoring
  Three programs of coaching and mentoring are currently found in school settings. These include peer coaching, building resource teachers, and the Success For All program.
• Family and Intergenerational Literacy in Multilingual Communities
  This article presents research that has informed family and intergenerational literacy work, policy initiatives that affect family literacy work, goals of family and intergenerational literacy programs, program design, and curricula for family literacy programs. The article concludes with promising directions for the future.
• 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.
• Songs
  This site features video and audio clips of songs to reinforce early literacy acquisition and phonics concepts.
• NRC (National Reading Conference) Online
  NRC is a professional organization for individuals who share an interest in research and the dissemination of information about literacy and literacy instruction.
• Awesome Authors
  The selected DVL lesson is taught by Karyl O'Banion, a 3rd grade teacher from Dolby Elementary School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The lesson is entitled Awesome Authors and demonstrates students learning how to participate in an online discussion, how to videotape live interviews, and how to conduct Internet searches to research an author.
• 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.
• IRA Position Statement on Phonics
  Summary of a position statement of the International Reading Association on the role of phonics in reading instruction (April 1997) with a link to the full text of the position statement (in PDF format). The Role of Phonics in Reading Instruction (April 1997) .
• Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners: A Position Paper
  In addition to this on-line position paper, links at the bottom of the document connect to definitions of literacy, L2 teaching methods, and a literacy framework. This website is useful for both classroom and university instructors.
• The Read In!
  THE READ IN! is an online interaction between children's authors and illustrators, and K-12 students.
• 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.
• Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
  This collaborative includes the Information Technology Group (ECAP/ITG) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Website includes a link to the former ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE) .
• Vocabulary
  This site contains interactive grade level puzzles and word activities to support vocabulary development. Material starts at junior high/middle school level, but would be valuable for teachers to use to enhance their own vocabulary knowledge.
• Literacy Training for Teachers Shows Positive Impact on Head Start Students
  This EDC study found that training Head Start teachers to enhance literacy activities in their classrooms translates into measurable vocabulary gains for their students.
• The Importance of Automaticity and Fluency for Efficient Reading Comprehension
  This online article is reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association quarterly newsletter, Perspectives. Its sections include definitions of key terms, ideas about relationships among fluency and other key elements of reading, and several figures.
• Professional Development Policies
  This article highlights goals, characteristics, gaps, future directions, and federal leadership related to professional development. An appendix to this piece includes guidelines from the U.S.
• National Assessment of Educational Progress
  The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S.
• 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.
• Effective Comprehension Instruction
  A powerpoint presentation for Nevada Reading First, January, 2004, by Nell Duke , Michigan State University.
• Vocabulary instruction
  This document contains definitions, how children learn vocabulary directly and indirectly, and types of vocabulary. A section on what does scientifically-based research tells us about vocabulary instruction is included.
• Games
  This site of interactive activities includes making words, vocabulary, concept of word, phonics, alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and others.
• 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.
• Best Practices Programs
  Various approaches to the teaching of reading, all considered best practice in literacy teaching and learning, include Project READ, The Kamehameha Early Education Program, Follow Through, Reading Recovery, and SRA/Open Court Reading. This piece is part of a larger NCREL publication entitled Professional Development for Teachers of Reading (2001) by Peggy A.
• Vocabulary University
  This site contains many word building activities including Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Match, Synonym & Antonym Encounters, Crosswords, Word Finds, True/False and Word Stories.
• Oral Reading Fluency/Accuracy - Relevant Quotations
  Quotes from experts and research related to Oral Reading Fluency/Accuracy (ORF/A) as a General Outcome Measure for reading proficiancy.
• Areas of Study with Writing Project
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort developed a lesson plan to assist students in writing a �well-developed, short essay on a content area.� The teacher has included a series of photographs including reading materials and motivators, vocabulary chart, fact chart, and a final draft.
• Approaches to Professional Development
  Typical inservice models of professional staff development are the training model and the reflective practice model. Outcomes for both models are suggested.
• Text Comprehension Instruction
  This online article contains sections about scientifically-based research, metacognition, examples of question-answer relationships (text explicit, text implicit, and scriptal), and teaching students to use comprehension strategies.
• IRA FOCUS on Reading Comprehension
  Sponsored by the International Reading Association, this website focuses on reading comprehension, including position statements, lesson plans, recommended readings, and other resources.
• Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
  This article summarizes research on instructional design and classroom management.
• Because Writing Matters
  Excerpted from the introduction of Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools by the National Writing Project and Carl Nagin (Jossey-Bass 2003).
• History of Professional Development in Reading Instruction
  Focus is given to the role of the teacher, the nature of literacy instruction, and the nature of professional development from 1800 through the beginning of the 21st century. Links to reports and articles on expertise in teaching reading are included.
• 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.
• Internet Resources to Assist Teachers with Struggling Readers
  This website provides an overview of web-based resources for teachers of struggling readers.
• FOCUS on Struggling Readers and Writers
  This International Reading Association site provides links to resources, publications, books and sample chapters, journal and newspaper articles, and position statements relating to various aspects of literacy teaching and learning.