Resources for Reading Educators
Rhode Island College Information
- Rhode Island College FSEHD Conceptual Framework
- Professional Organizations
- Book Reading Levels/Readability Formulas
- Children’s & Young Adult Literature
- Diversity, English Language Learners & Multicultural Issues
- Early Literacy
- Governmental Publications, Research & Resources
- Lesson Ideas & Resources
- Literacy Coaching
- Reading Assessment
- Reading Comprehension Strategies
- School & Family Partnerships
- Research in Education (non-governmental organizations)
- Technology and New Literacies
Rhode Island College FSEHD Conceptual Framework
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Professional Organizations
- International Reading Association (IRA)
www.reading.org - National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) www.nabe.org
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) www.naeyc.org
- National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) www.ncte.org
- National Reading Conference (NRC)
www.nrconline.org - New England Reading Association (NERA)
www.nereading.org - Rhode Island State Council of the International Reading Association (RISC/IRA)
P. O. Box 187
Ashaway, RI 02804Book Reading Levels/Readability Formulas
- Lexile Database
www.lexile.com
Children’s & Young Adult Literature
- American Library Association (ALA)
www.ala.org - Carol Hurst
www.carolhurst.com - Children’s Authors & Illustrators on the Web
www.ucalgary.ca/authors.html - Guys Read
www.guysread.com - Patricia Polacco
www.patriciapolacco.com - Rhode Island Children’s Book Award
www.ri.net/RIEMA/bookaward.html - Teen Reads
www.teenreads.com - Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm
Diversity, English Language Learners & Multicultural Issues
Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
www.usc.edu/dept. education/CMMR/home.html
The Internet TESL (Teachers of English as a Second Language) Journal
www.iteslj.org
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)
www.ncela.gwu.edu
Sheltered English Instruction
www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/tl-strategies/mc-principles.shtml
Sheltered Instruction
www.cal.org/topics.ell/siop.html
Teachers of English as a Second Language
www.tesol.net
Teaching Tolerance
www.tolerance.org
Early Literacy
Center for Early Literacy Learning
www.earlyliteracylearning.org
Starfall
www.starfall.com
Governmental Publications, Research & Resources
Institute of Education Sciences
www.ies.ed.gov
National Endowment for the Arts
www.nea.org
National Reading Panel Report: Teaching Children to Read
www.nationalreadingpanel.org
Office of Educational Technology
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/index.html
Rhode Island Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (RIDE)
http://www.ride.ri.gov/
Reading First
www.ed.gov/programs/readingfirst/index.html
Striving Readers
http://www.ed.gov/programs/strivingreaders/index.html
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
What Works Clearinghouse
www.ied.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
Lesson Ideas & Resources
Edutopia
www.Edutopia.org
Enchanted Learning
www.enchantedlearning.com
Hotchalk
www.hotchalk.com
Kathy Schrock
www.school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
The Reading Lady
www.readinglady.com
ReadWriteThink
www.readwritethink.org
Teachers Helping Teachers
www.pacificnet.net/
Thinkfinity
www.thinkfinity.org
U.S. Department of Education: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
www.free.ed.gov
Literacy Coaching
Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse
www.literacycoachingonline.org
Reading Assessment
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
http://nces.ed.gov/NATIONSREPORTCARD/
Program for International Student Assessment
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/
Reading Assessment Database
http://www.sedl.org/reading/rad/
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Bloom’s Taxonomy
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html
Into the Book
www.reading.ecb.org
RAND Corporation
Reading for Understanding: Toward a R&D Program in Reading Comprehension
www.rand.org/multi/achievementforall/reading/readreport.html
Reading Comprehension
www.literacy.uconn.edu/compre.htm
ReadingQuest
www.readingquest.org/strat/
Reciprocal Teaching
www.sedl.org/cgi-bin/mysqul/buildingreading.cgi?=description&showrecord=2
School & Family Partnerships
Helping Your Child publications
www.ed.gove/parents/academic/help/hyc.html
Research in Education (non-governmental organizations)
RAND Corporation
www.rand.org/research_areas/education/
Technology and New Literacies
Educational Technology Clearinghouse
www.etc.usf.edu
International Society for Technology in Education
www.iste.org
Kaiser Family Foundation: Study of Media & Health
www.kff.org/entmedioa/index.cfm
Pew Research Center: Internet & Technology
www.pewresearch.org/topics/internetandtechnology/
Technology in Education
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/te0cont.htm
Thinkquest
www.thinkquest.org
Webquests
www.webquest.org