LEADERS - Links

Practical Classroom Resources

• Authors and Illustrators on the Web
• Bigchalk.com; Language Arts
• BookHive
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Children's Department Resource
• Elementary School Lesson Plans/Classroom Activities
• The First Grade Back-Pack
• Four Blocks
• Four Blocks Graphic Organizers
• The Four Blocks; Sifting and Sorting
• Guided Reading
• LD Online:  Learning Disabilities Information and Resources
• Literature Circles
• Making Words
• NCTE- IRA; Read Write Think
• PSSA Classroom Connections
• The Reading Genie
• Reading Games: Family Education Network
• Reading Rockets
• Resources for Teaching Bilingual Students
• A Rhyme a Week
• RhymeZone
• Rubrics
• Running Record Calculator
• Self-Selected Reading
• Shape Books
• Starspell 2001 Onset & Rime Lists
• Teachers.Net
• Teachervision
• Teaching Tolerance
• University at Buffalo - Making Words Article
• Word Building
• Word Walls
• Writing Resources for a Global Community of Learners

Instructional Approaches

• Responsive Classroom
• Differentiated Instruction - ASCD
• Brain Compatible Learning - David Sousa
• Cooperative Learning Overview
• Cooperative Learning:  Response to Diversity
• Cooperative Learning - Spencer Kagan
• Cooperative Learning - David Johnson and Roger Johnson
• Dimensions of Learning - Robert Marzano
• Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner
• Essential Elements of Instruction - Madeline Hunter
• Scaffolding

Parents

• Helping Your Child Learn to Read
• Parent Page - American Federation of Teachers
• School-Home Reading Connections
• National Parent Information Network
• US DOE Publications for Parents
• ReadbyGrade3:  Reading and Reading Disabilities
• LD Online:  Learning Disabilities Information and Resources

Children's Literature

• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
• Children's Literature Index
• Internet School Library Media Center
• Multicultural Resources for Children
• Cross-Curricular Connections with Children's Literature
• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Children's Literature Site
• Zelo Nursery Rhymes

Emergent Literacy

• Ready*Set*Read for Families - America Reads Challenge
• The Emergent Literacy Project
• Spelling and Phonics Developmental Stages
• Emergent Literacy:  Synthesis of the Research
• What Young Children Can Learn...Before They Go to School

Organizations

• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
• International Reading Association
• Keystone State Reading Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• The Pennsylvania Department of Education
• PSSA Classroom Connections
• United States Department of Education
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• National Reading Panel
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• American Federation of Teachers
• National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
• Teachers.Net

Research Sources

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American Federation of Teachers
• America Read; Resources
• AskERIC
• Bilingual Research Journal
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Children's Department Resource
• Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
• Education Journals and Newsletters on the Internet 
• Eric Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
• Eric Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education, U.S. Department of Education
• A Guide to Children's Literature and Disabilities
• LD Online:  Learning Disabilities Information and Resources
• National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
• National Library of Education
• National Reading Panel; Teaching Kids to Read
• NCITE: Research Synthesis: Reading and Diverse Learners America Reads Challenge
• New Standards (National Center on Education and the Economy)
• Phi Delta Kappan
• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
• ReadbyGrade3:  Reading and Reading Disabilities
• Reading Fundamentals; BrainConnection
• Reading Success Network

Technology and Reading

• Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology
• Reading Online
• US DOE Office of Educational Technology
• School House Software Review
• Government Education Technology Resources
• International Reading Association Technology Links Page
• LD Online:  Teaching with Technology

Search Engines

• www.bigchalk.com
• www.education-world.com
• www.awesomelibrary.org
• http://search.ed.gov/
• www.yahoo.com
• www.altavista.com
• www.ask.com
• www.refdesk.com
• www.google.com
• www.metacrawler.com