Resources

Reading & Listening Comprehension

IES Practice Guide on Reading Comprehension K-3

(Shanahan, Callison, Carriere, Duke, Pearson, Schatschneider, & Torgesen, 2010)

Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement

University of Michigan

Rand Report: Reading for Understanding

(Snow, 2002)

Essential Elements of Fostering and Teaching Reading Comprehension

(Duke & Pearson, 2011)

Listenwise

Listening comprehension platform

Auding and Reading

(Sticht, 1974)

MOOV: Become a Super Reading Teacher

Web-Based Professional Development in Reading Comprehension

Reading Between the Lines

American College Testing (ACT)

State Education Standards

Common Core Standards

Common Core Standards

PARCC

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

SBAC-Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

SBAC

Achieve the Core

Student Achievement Partners

Achieve.org

Works with states to raise academic standards

Engage New York

New York State Education Department

The State of State Standards

Thomas Fordham Institute

The State of the Sunshine State Standards: Florida's B.E.S.T. Edition

Thomas Fordham Institute

Supports for Teaching English Learners

Center for Applied Linguistics

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence

University of Hawaii

Colorin Colorado

WETA-TV

Understanding Language

Stanford University

Teaching Academic Content to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School (2014)

What Works Clearinghouse

Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learning in the Elementary Grades

What Works Clearinghouse (2007)

SIOP

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

Second-Language Learners' Vocabulary and Oral Language Development

ILA Publication 2017

Writing Instruction

IES Practice Guide- Elementary

IES Practice Guide- Elementary

IES Practice Guide- Secondary

IES Practice Guide- Secondary

National Writing Project

National Writing Project

Research on Written Composition

(Hillocks, 1986)

Writing to Read

(Graham & Hebert, 2010)

Writing Next: Effective Writing Strategies

(Graham & Perin, 2007)

6+1 Trait Writing

http://educationnorthwest.org/traits

Make Beliefs Comix

Story writing app, make your own comics

Measuring Readability and Text Complexity

Text Project

(Elfrieda Hiebert)

Lexiles

(MetaMetrics)

ATOS

Renaissance Reading

Text Evaluator

(Educational Testing Service)

Coh-Metrix

(University of Memphis)

Free Books, Research Reports, and Videos

Foundational Skills

Foundational Skills

Becoming a Nation of Readers

Becoming a Nation of Readers

Handbook of Reading Research, vol. I

Handbook of Reading Research, vol. I

Handbook of Reading Research, vol. II

Handbook of Reading Research, vol. II

Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. III

Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. III

ACT: Reading Between the Lines

ACT: Reading Between the Lines

Put reading first kindergarten through grade 3

https://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/PRFbooklet.pdf

Starting out right: A guide to promoting children’s reading success.

National Academy of Education book on how to teach beginning reading

Children of the Code

Interviews with Scholars

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED416465.pdf

Professional Organizations

International Literacy Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Literacy Research Association

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading

College Reading and Learning Association

UK Literacy Association

International Dyslexia Association

Tim Shanahan's Partners & Projects

Reading Rockets

National multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read

Reading is Fundamental

What Works Clearinghouse

U.S. Department of Education

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Promotes Educational Excellence

Raising the Bar

WestEd's Blog on Improving School Achievement

Timothy and Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award

International Literacy Association

Great Literacy Sites and Resources for Teachers and Parents

Balanced Literacy Diet

ReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/

Voice of Literacy

Audio tapes of various literacy experts

Bookworms

Free high-quality elementary reading curriculum

How to Love Lit

Literature Podcasts & Guides Secondary

United for Literacy

Digital picture books for children

Melissa Stewart's Science Clubhouse

Put Reading First Helping Your Child Learn to Read: A Parent Guide

Published by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Literacy Central

How to Love Lit Podcast

Explorations of high school/middle school literature

Disciplinary Literacy

Literacy in All Subjects

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Annenberg Learner

https://www.learner.org/?s=disciplinary+literacy

Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools

Education Endowment Foundation

Teaching Channel: Reading Like a Historian

Stanford History Education Group

Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy

Carnegie Publication

Tim Shanahan's Programs

Networks Social Studies Program

Whole Curriculum-Social Studies & History

Amplify Reading

Last Reader: Close Reading Program Grades 5-8

McGraw-Hill Wonders

K-6 Reading Program

Study Sync

Grades 6-12 English Language Arts Program

WonderWorks

A K-6 Reading Intervention Program

World of Wonders

A Reading Program for Children Ages 3-5

Amplify Atlas

Elementary Reading Assessment

AMP Reading System

http://assets.pearsonglobalschools.com/asset_mgr/legacy/200814/striv%20readers_LR_032108_7181_1.pdf

Free Reading Materials for Children and Teens

Summer Reading Materials

http://www.textproject.org/classroom-materials/students/summerreads/

Library of Congress

Classic Books for Kids and Books

International Children's Digital Library

An online library for the world's children

United for Literacy

Digital picture books for children

Story Place

Children's Digital Learning Library

Reading Foundations and Beginning Reading

Play Roly

Free learning phonological awareness learning games for children ages 3-5

Early Literacy Phonics Instruction

Reading Bear

Free phonics resources

Oral Reading Fluency Norms

Hasbrouck & Tindal, 2017

Don Bear on Literacy Instruction

Richard Gentry on Reading/Spelling Connections

Explaining Phonics Instruction

ILA Publication 2018

The Reading League

https://www.thereadingleague.org/

Vocabulary and Morphology

World Wide Words

Exploration of figurative language

Visual Thesaurus

Word meaning networks

One Look

One Look Dictionary Look up

Coxhead Academic Word List

570 Word Families

Teaching 50,000 Words in Your Classroom

Graves & Sales, 2013

Academic Word Finder

Morphological Awareness

IDA Publication 2017

Vocabulary Development

Edited by Tim Rasinski and William Rupley

Structured Word Inquiry

What Works Literacy Centre

Adolescent Literacy

All About Adolescent Literacy

Resources for Grades 4-12

What Content Teachers Should Know about Adolescent Literacy

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Iris Center, Vanderbilt University

Collaborative Strategic Reading

Literacy Journals

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Journal of the International Literacy Association

Bridging the Gap - Reading Research Quarterly

Interviews with scholars about their publications in Reading Research Quarterly

The Reading Teacher

Elementary focused journal of the International Literacy Association

Scientific Studies of Reading

Journal of the Society for the Study of Reading

Journal of Literacy Research

Publication of the National Literacy Association

Reading and Writing Quarterly

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/urwl20

Reading Psychology

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/urpy20

Perspectives on Language and Literacy

https://dyslexiaida.org/perspectives/

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