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Reading Research - Teaching, Learning and Literacy Web Sites

http://www.etcmcn.org/ram/ramwebliography.htm

RAM Webliography

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/sitemap.htm

This site is filled with great literacy resources for teachers/tutors/parents alike. Way too many resources to mention here...just know it's one you won't want to miss!

http://www.adrianbruce.com/index.html

This is definitely one of my all time favorite sites! Adrian teaches in Australia, so keep in mind a few spelling are slightly different (such as organisation…it appears they sometimes use "s" where we use "z"... but easily corrected if caught... and, you can download his resources in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader). Adrian 's home page will link you to wonderful reading, math, and science games, etc. Be sure you check him out! I don't think you will be disappointed if you are looking for K-3 material! If you are a frequent visitor to his site, he makes clear a donation is appreciated. However, everything is free... so don't ignore this site if you aren't able to make a donation. His resources are well worth checking out!

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/pdf.html

What a wonderful collection of resources for tutoring programs!

http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm

Another favorite site! If you want Dolch Word activities and flashcards, make sure you don't miss these great resources!

http://theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html

Another really good site for gathering Dolch Word resources!

http://bogglesworld.com/dolch/flashcards.htm

Would you believe yet another great site for Dolch Word resources?

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/beginning11.html

This site has a fun sight word game called "Bang!"

http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html

A wonderful site that contains links for teachers; everything under the sun right at your fingertips.

http://sitesforparents.com/index.html

This site has numerous links for parents ranked in order of popularity.

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html

Houghtin Mifflin has MANY helpful graphic organizers appropriate for a variety of grade and ability levels all ready for you to download.

http://www.poetryteachers.com/

If you like poetry, you'll love this site. There's poetry theatre scripts you can print off as well as many enjoyable activities and poems to read with your kids.

http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=710

This site is amazing! You name it! If it has to do with literacy, you should be able to find it here. It's among my top ten favorite sites ever! It's one of the best for comprehension!

http://www.time4teachers.com/Exchange/ReadingX.htm

This site contains activities that are sent in by teachers. You can download whatever suits your fancy.

http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/goodies.html

This site has wonderful activities and resources for 4 Blocks classrooms. Too many to mention, so don't miss them!

http://bogglesworld.com/potionbook.htm

Harry Potter fans will enjoy putting together this little book of magic potions.

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=52857&ck=&userid=1 &userpw=.&uh=1,0

This is a terrific site for upper level 4 Blocks. If you work with upper elementary grades you'll want to check this site out for sure!

http://www.dltk-kids.com/

The DLTK web site has wonderful literature props for the following pattern and rhyming books, which are wonderful to use with early emergent (pre-readers) and emergent (beginning) readers.

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/depts/eng/k5/gr1titles.htm

Books and activity resources that are loved by young children in the first grade.

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/depts/eng/k5/second/gr2titles.htm

Books and activity resources that are enjoyed by children in the second grade.

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/depts/eng/k5/third/gr3titles.htm

Literature book recommendations and activities that are enjoyed by children in the third grade.

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/depts/eng/k5/gr4titles.htm

Fourth grade literature and activities to motivate young readers.

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/depts/eng/k5/gr4titles.htm

Literature and activities for children at the fifth grade level.

Apple Paper Craft

Bulletin Board Ideas

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Handprint Crafts with Poems & Letters

Sponge Bob Paper Craft

http://www.byroncs.nsw.edu.au/library/science/frogs.htm

Great science links that are good for a variety of grade levels.

http://www.asxfrogfocus.com/ or http://asxfrogfocus.hardworking.com.au//froggyfact.html or

http://asxfrogfocus.hardworking.com.au//garden2.html or

http://asxfrogfocus.hardworking.com.au//teachideas.html or

http://www.byroncs.nsw.edu.au/library/science/frogs.htm or

http://asxfrogfocus.hardworking.com.au/cgi/websearch.pl

Awesome frog facts and photographs found here. If you like or want to study frogs, this is a site to check out!

http://www.geocities.com/tonyswebquests/spedgames

This is an awesome website, too! It has great games to print out! It's definitely a favorite! Check it out!

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

An informational web site highlighting "4,000 Years of Women in Science." Great reference source!

http://208.183.128.3/tutorials/gameboard.htm

Here's another great site for printing out pre-made board games. The games are wonderful to use in tutoring sessions!

http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/posterspage.htm

This site has wonderful 6-Trait posters you can print out!

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/trainingopps/games/games.pdf

This site has a number of learning games and activities that would be appropriate at a variety of levels to use when tutoring.

http://home.att.net/~teaching/langarts.htm

Lots of activities for language arts that might be useful during tutoring sessions.

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/menu.html

If you are interested in 6-trait writing activities, be sure and look at Kim's ideas and resources.

http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/index.htm

http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/how/index.htm

Want your kids to work cooperatively on the computer? Check this site out!

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/index.htm

The KidZone Language Arts' site has some neat activities:

Alphabet Recognition Games

Dolch Word Lists and Flashcards

Kindergarten Consonants

Poetry Projects

Preschool Writing Practice

Puzzle - Cryptogram Maker

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmsv/index.html

This site has word study ideas that are compiled by grade levels. The activities are “hands on” and will be enjoyable for teachers (tutors) and students alike!

http://www.balancedreading.com/

If you want to read some great articles on “Balanced Reading,” don't miss this site. It contains some very interesting and motivating information.

http://www.schoolmission.net/SCHOOLHOUSE/speltic.html

This site is called "Spelling Ticklers." It's another good site for finding MANY word study activities for students in grades K-8!

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson241.shtml/

Oh my! Too many resources to even try and list them all! But, I can tell you it will be worth your while to check them out for tutoring activities to cover all required areas!

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

An outstanding web site for two and three letter word families! Check it out!

http://www.aesopfables.com/

This is a great source for Aesop Fables. Too many to mention!

http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/

This is one of my favorite sites. I like it because it allows you to customize the word lists and flash cards, games, and other activities. Be sure you visit this site! It will give you hands on materials for tutoring…FREE!

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/dolchflash.htm

This is another good site that has basic sight word cards to print.

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/

This site has a great “Bingo” card maker. You can make your own cards for free!

http://208.183.128.8/read/Phon-Awareness.htm

Phonemic awareness: Elkonian Box activity Objective: To explicitly help children to analyze the segmenting and blending of phonemes and to better understand the alphabetic principle in decoding and spelling (quoted from the web site).

http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html

This is a wonderful site that allows you to download printed “Dolch Word” cards (sight words arranged by grade level)! The site contains: flashcards, phrase cards, game boards, bingo sight word cards, and directions for playing a number of card games. The cards range from the pre-primer to third grade levels.

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/Names.html

This site has many “name” activities that teachers and tutors might be interested in checking out!

http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/www_activitycards.pdf

This is a great site for primary level activities used in the 4-Blocks reading approach. “Working with Words” and other spelling and decoding activities are abundant. The activities are designed for grades 1-3 and help children increase their reading fluency skills by stressing a strong base of sight words (words known instantly) and ongoing support in detecting word patterns. Phonics skills are also encouraged to help students develop their spelling skills.

http://www.alphabet-soup.net/ttools/abcpictures.html

This site contains alphabet pictures to color.

http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/animal-abc/a.html

Another alphabet site with awesome pictures of animals on flash cards ready to use!

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

You can customize and download word activity puzzles on this site!

http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/a/naneb/

This is a great upper elementary site that provides information and activities to use in the 4-Blocks. Other links to great sites are provided, too.

http://6traits.cyberspaces.net/

A great site for primary (grades 1-3) activities for 6-Trait Writing (a great way to teach children writing skills!). It has links to other helpful sites including the home of 6 Traits, the NWRE Laboratory.

http://www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html

This site has many colorful writing prompts for young writer (if you have a colored printer).

http://www.state.ar.us/childcare/storymonth.html

A story a month for 3 years (all available right now)! All stories have picture props to go with the story that can be downloaded to help students with story retellings and sequencing story events.

The Napping House

The Snowy Day

Hattie And The Fox

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

Charlie Needs A Cloak

The Three Little Pigs

The Runaway Bunny

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Lady With the Alligator purse

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

http://www.abcteach.com/

This site has many reading and writing activities. Check it out!

http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/Pubs/Tutorman.html and

http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/index.html

This is the American Reads web site. It has many reading and writing activities to check out. The top link will take you to the America Reads tutoring manual.

http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/resources/online_pubs/literacy/index.php

National service Resources: This site has another helpful tutoring manual.

http://www.interventioncentral.org/index.shtml

Intervention Central is an awesome collection of strategies, examples, definitions, and tools for educators. It has everything and anything to do with literacy and learning among other topics and subjects in education. It's your “one-stop” shopping site. You really need to check it out this amazing collection of resources.

http://www.readinglady.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&fil=index

A terrific site for activities and information! The Reading Lady allows you to download word recognition activities, comprehension activities, writing activities, and more for free!

http://www.janbrett.com/

This is a wonderful site full of neat activities to go with Jan Brett's books and more! Her illustrations are beautiful!

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html

What a great site! This site provides teachers and students an enjoyable activity (much like “Mad Libs”) to practice parts of speech. It's another enjoyable resource for children in grades 2-5.

http://teams.lacoe.edu/village/k3.html#site

You name it and this site has it! Be sure and check it out! It has professional links and a variety of professional resources; as well as many language arts activities.

http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/tour/tour7.html

You need to be a member to download the leveled books on this site. However, 30 of the books can be downloaded free of charge. Students who are at the emergent to developing levels enjoy these books because they can take them home after their tutoring sessions.

http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html#WordFamilyBooklets

More emergent books you can print for free! This is a great site! It has word family books, sight wordbooks, seasonal books, and activities to use with picture books that emergent readers enjoy.

http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/ and/or http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html

These sites give good explanations and visual examples of the five main types of graphic organizers. It also has good links to other sites that have organizers and more.

Graphic organizers are valuable instructional tools. Unlike many tools that have one purpose, graphic organizers are flexible and endless in application. One common trait found among graphic organizers is that they show the order and completeness of a student's thought process - strengths and weaknesses of understanding become clearly evident. Many graphic organizers show different aspects of an issue/problem - in close and also the big picture. Since many graphic organizers use short words or phrases, they are ideal for many types of learners, including English Language Learners with intermediate proficiency. (Quoted directly from write/design home page)

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html

This site, which is organized by Houghton Mifflin, is a great one for printing out free graphic organizer templates! Be sure and check out these resources!

http://www.createdbyteachers.com/vowelhomecardsmain.html

This site has cards of various vowel sounds that help students practice vowel patterns. They can take the cards home to practice and would make great game cards for a miscellaneous game board...

http://www.mlpp-msl.net/assessments/default.htm

This is a great site for viewing the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile Assessments.

http://www.copesd.k12.mi.us/Literacy/literacy%20links.htm

Great literacy links for teachers.

http://nationalserviceresources.org/filemanager/download/297/RH_APP.pdf

This site contains a tutor training manual that might offer you some ideas. The first 20 pages list different programs that provide tutoring services. You might want to check out some of the sites for ideas.

http://www.ciera.org/index.html

This is the home page for the "Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement."

The Center for the improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) is a national center for research on early reading, representing a consortium of educators from five universities (the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, with the University of Southern California, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia); teacher educators; teachers; publishers of texts, tests, and technology; professional organizations; and schools and school districts across the United States. CIERA is supported under the Educational Research and Development Centers Program, PR/Award Number R305R70004, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. (Quoted directly from the CIERA "About Us" web site)

http://www.mcrel.org/programs/literacy/ela/scaffolding.pdf

Article: Scaffolding Emergent Writing in the Zone of Proximal Development (Bodrova, 1998) This is an interesting article that explains the developmental nature of emergent writers' within Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development Theory. It provides the reader a clear picture of the different stages of development.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/

An oldie but goodie article worth reading: "Same old, same old, reading strategies for students" (1991)

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/

This site contains a number of links to excellent full text "Word Study" articles worth spending the time to read:

Word Sort: Approaching spelling through spelling (Abouzeid, 2000)
“Learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around:" The synchrony of literacy development (Bear, 1991)
Orthographic development and learning to read in different languages (Bear, 2003)
Exploring the relationship between dialect and spelling for specific vocalic features in Appalachian first-grade children (Cantrell, 2001)
Children's word structure knowledge: Implications for decoding and spelling instruction (Henry, 1989)
Using students' invented spellings as a guide for spelling instruction that emphasizes word study (Invernizzi,1994)
Integrated word study: Spelling, grammar, and meaning in the language arts classroom (Invernizzi,1997)
Developmental-spelling research: A systematic imperative (Ivernizzi, 2004)
The reader, the text, and the task: Learning words in first grade (Johnston, 1998)
The utility of phonic generalizations: Let's take another look at Clymer's conclusions (Johnston, 2001)
Spelling exceptions: Problems or possibilities? (Johnston, 2001)
Developing first graders' phonemic awareness, word identification and spelling: A comparison of two contemporary phonic instructional approaches (Joseph, 2000)
Writing in a second language: Negotiating meaning through invented spelling (Mejia, 1989)
Teaching low-achieving spellers at their “instructional level” (Morris, 1995)
Developmental steps in learning to read: A longitudinal study in kindergarten and first grade (Morris, 2003)
Children's word structure knowledge: Implications for decoding and spelling instruction (Henry, 1989)
Theory and research into practice: Questions teachers ask about spelling (Templeton, 1999)
Spelling Errors of normal and disabled students on achievement levels one through four: Instructional Implications (Worthy, 1990)
Morphological, phonological, and orthographic differences between the spelling of normally achieving children and basic literacy adults (Worthy, 1996)
Word sorting: A developmental spelling approach to word study for delayed readers (Zutell, 1998)