Reading Links

• International Reading Organization
• National Council for the Teachers of English: Elementary
• National Council for the Teachers of English: Middle School
• National Council for the Teachers of English: Secondary

Research Information and Other Reading Organizations

• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA): Research and principles of early reading instruction.
• Every Child Reading: Read the professional development action plan from the Learning First Alliance.
• Learning to Read/Reading to Learn: Research from the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITS) which identify the skills and understandings children need in order to read.
• Northwest Regional Laboratory: You know about the Six Traits for Effective Writing; learn about the Six Traits for Effective Reading. See scoring guides, content area reading tips, lessons plans and more.
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC): A tool for locating educational research articles, lesson plans, and more.
• State of the Art Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning To Read
• Compact for Reading: Activities for families, teachers, and students in grades K-3.
• Helping Your Child Become a Reader: Designed for parents to help their children from infancy through age 6.
• Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements in Reading

• Scholastic: Lesson ideas which support Literacy Place 2000. Also can be used to determine the reading levels of most books at the Reading Counts site.
• Readwritethink: Outstanding site with reading and languge lesson plans for K-12 classrooms, sponsored by NCTE and IRA
• Reading Comprehension- Free Worksheets
• Teachnet.Com
• Reading Plans From the Teacher's Desk
• NCTE Teaching Ideas
• Content Reading and Comprehension Strategies
• Proteacher.com
• CyberGuide: Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature for grades K-12
• Web English Teacher: Online teaching resources: lesson plans and activities, biography, e-texts, online criticism, Webquests, professional resources, jokes, puzzles, classroom-friendly sites, and videos
• Ask the Author: Author biographies and authors' answers to questions that students ask.
• Novel Guides from McDougall Littell
• Education World
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Literature and Language Arts
  Hundreds of links to sites about literature, lessons plans, authors, and professional growth.
  
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication: Many links to sites for lesson plans, project ideas, and literacy resources on the Web.
• Dr. Katherine L. Schlick Noe's Literacy Resources: A comprehensive site that includes themed literature units, ideas for literature circles, and links to assessments, authors, searchable databases, and other literacy resources.
• Literature Circle Resource Center: Dr. Katherine Schlick Noe's site for how to implement literature circles in your classroom.

• Univeritsy of Washington Children's and Young Adult Literature Resource
• The Children's Literature Web Guide
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
• Book Links
• Booklist: Youth Fiction
• Reading Zone at the Internet Public Library: Youth Division
• Booklists for Young Adults on the Web
• Children's Cooperative Book Center
• Kay Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Web Site
• Young Adult Librarians' Help/Homepage
• American Library Association (ALA)
• Canadian Review of Materials
• ISLMC Children's Literature/Young Adult Literature Book review Sources for K-12
• Over 700 Sites for Children's Books

Novelguide.com : A source for literary analysis on
the web for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through chapter summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analyses, and author biographies.
Novel Guides: Outstanding site for literary analysis of classic literature. Includes chapter summaries and analyses, main themes, character traits, author biographies, essay ideas, quizzes, and other links.
CyberGuide: Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature for grades K-12
Web English Teacher: The best of online teaching resources: lesson plans and activities, biography, e-texts, online criticism, Webquests, professional resources, jokes, puzzles, classroom-friendly sites, and videos
Online Books

Bartelby Online Books, Short Stories and Poems

Authors and Classics

Generic Novel Activities for 7-12 Teachers
Short Stories

For English Teachers
Novel Guides from McDougall Littell
Vintage Book Guides

Dictionary of Literary Terms
Library Spot "Invisible Web"

Copyright Website

Mr.William Shakespeare and the Internet
Surfing With the Bard

Talking to William Shakespeare

Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance

For guides of specific works by Shakespeare see Novel Guides, Novelguides.com or CyberGuide.

Please let me know if you've found some useful web sites, or if you have problems with the ones listed above. megan.chamberlin@shorelineschools.org.