Early Literacy part of the Education Reform Network

Motivation

• Games
  This site of interactive activities includes making words, vocabulary, concept of word, phonics, alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and others.
• Internet Resources to Assist Teachers with Struggling Readers
  This website provides an overview of web-based resources for teachers of struggling readers.
• Literacy Empowerment Foundation
  LEF is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting educational programs by providing inexpensive children's books. The Reading Recycling Project provides free book collections for the cost of shipping and handling.
• Personal Readers for Transitional and Intermediate Students
  For this final class project, three students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort developed a description of use of personal readers with group content dictations, poems, and informational text. A personal reader list and discussion log template is included, along with student samples.
• Songs
  This site features video and audio clips of songs to reinforce early literacy acquisition and phonics concepts.
• Teacher Motivation
  This PowerPoint presentation on teacher motivation is one of a series of presentations and workshops for teachers produced by Literacy Leaders as part of NREA coursework (Note: these workshops are copyrighted by NREA and the authors. You are welcome to use/adapt them to your school under two conditions: a) that you give credit to the author, and b) that you return a copy of improved/adapted versions of the workshop to the NREA in care of Joan Taylor ([email protected]).
• The Read In!
  THE READ IN! is an online interaction between children's authors and illustrators, and K-12 students.
• 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.