• Language
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/language.html
  Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8.
  
  
• Early Reading Strategy: The Report of the Expert Panel on Early Reading in Ontario, 2003
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/reading/help.html
  
  
• Literacy for Learning: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/literacy/panel/index.html
  • Literacy for Learning: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario
    http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/literacy/panel/literacy.pdf
    147 pdf file
    
    
• Helping your child learn to read
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/earlyreading/index.html
  The Ontario Early Reading Strategy is intended to help children from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 3 improve their reading skills.
  • Also available as a 17 page pdf brochure
    
    
• Me Read? No Way!
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/meread/meread.pdf
  A practical guide to improving boys' litearcy skills. - 61 page pdf file.
  
  
• Think Literacy
  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/
  • Think Literacy Library: Subject Specific Resources

Online Resources | Language Activities and Lessons

Professional Teacher Resources

• IRA
  http://www.reading.org/
  • Focus on Topics of Reading
    Use the right hand margin to access printable lists and lesson plans
  • Parent Resources - printable Brochures
  • Using Informational Books for Read-Alouds
  • Family Literacy and the School Community: A Partnership for Lifelong Learning
    
    
• Mosaic Listserve Database
  http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/
  Books listed by reading strategy: schema, sensory imagery, questioning, inferring, determining importance, synthesizing, fix-it up.
  • Mosaic Listserve Teaching Tools: assessment, lesson plans, worksheets/reporting forms, staff development, posters and more...
    
    
• Yes, teaching Reading IS Rocket Science
  http://www.aft.org/topics/reading/rocket.htm
  • The 40 page report
    Research and strategies to teach reading. (40 pages)
    
    
• English Learning Area from Tansmania
  http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/default.htm
  A comprehensive resource for balanced literacyteaching.
  • For Teachers
    • Reading
    • Teaching Ideas and Units
    • Teaching Strategies
    • Teaching the Language of Visual Text
  
  
• Scholastic Reading Resource Network
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/
  Use the left menu to access lesson support and printable pages
  • Comprehension
    
    
• Educational CyberPlayGround ReadabilityTools
  http://www.cyberpg.com/Literacy/readability.asp
  Links to readability tools
  Fry's Readability Graph
  
  
• Reading Strategies
  http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela20/teach5.html
  Before, during and after reading strategies.
  
  
• Leveled Book Database
  http://registration.beavton.k12.or.us/lbdb/default.htm
  Search by title, author, reading level.
  
  
• Leveled Book Lists
  http://www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/readingcomparisoncharts.asp
  A collection of levelled book sites.
  
  
• The Lexile Framework
  http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=6&tabid=18#18
  Explanation of the lexile scale.
  • Lexile Book Search
  • Lexile Calculator
    
    
• Reading Posters
  http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/posters/index.htm
  Phonics posters ready to print.
  
  
• Wisconsin Literacy Education and Reading Network Source
  http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/
  Use the menu on the left to navigate the site. Drop down menus link to reading strategies, lesson, and family reading information.
  • Development Continuum
  • Six Essential Reading Strategies: Making conections, questions, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, synthesizing
  • Teaching/Learning Activities to Develop Strategic Readers
  • Levelled Book Database
  • Comprehension Teaching earning Articles
  • Comprehending Fiction and Nonfiction
    
    
• Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project
  http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/archive/index.html
  • Links
  • Lesson Plans
  • Training Resources
  • Early Literacy Resources
    
    
• Bookbags for Leveled Books
  http://teachers.eusd.k12.ca.us/bbuchel/TeacherIdeas/bookbags.htm
  A sample letter and reading cues to share with parents.
  
  
• Portland Public Schools Leveled Books Lists
  http://www.pps.k12.or.us/curriculum/literacy/leveled_books/
  Books sorted by author, title, Reading Recovery, and Grade level available on-line and in pdf files.
  
  
• 6 Traits of an Effective Reader
  http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/scoring.php
  Lessons and rubrics for the teaching of reading skills: decoding conventions, establishing comprehension, developing interpretations, integrating for synthesis, and critiquing for evaluation. Use the menu at the left of the screen to access lesson plans and printable rubrics.
  • 98Toolkit - Printable training guide
  • Archived Pages - Lessons
    
    
    

Resources

• The Five Finger Rule
  http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/p4_use/FiveFingerTest.html
  The five finger text will show you whether a book is a good one for your project.
  
  
• Fry's Readability Graph
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html
  • The Graphs
  • The SMOG Readability Formula
     
    
• Readability Q&A
  http://www.hip-books.com/why_hip_books_work.php?p=128
  Answers have been supplied by Paul Kropp, Canada's leading authority on materials for reluctant readers.
  
  
• Readplease
  http://www.readplease.com/
  The world's most popular text-to-speech software - and it is still free.
  
  
• The Handbook of Rhetorical Devises and  The Glossary of Literary Terms
  http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
  Self test  on devices included.
  
  
• Reading Themes
  http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readtheme-sel.html
  Collection of sites for students, parents and teachers. Lots of sites to sift through-- takes some time.
  
  
• How to Read Essays You Must Analyze
  http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/essays.html
  A guide that takes you thought how to analyze an essay.
  
  
  

Language Activities &  Lessons

• Graphic Organizers
  
  
• read write think
  http://www.readwritethink.org/
  Reading and writing lesson plans listed by topic and grade. Lessons include blackline masters and weblinks,
  • Lessons
  • Web Resources
  • Research Reading Blocks: Hints About Print - with online tutorial
    
    
• Reading Strategies
  http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20index.htm
  Scaffolding students' interactions with text - before, during and after reading.
  
  
• A Compact for Reading & School Home Links
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/index.html#links
  A collection of school-home printable reading activities for kindergarten, grades 1-3. 
  
  
• Personalized Take-Homes
  http://www.teachersfirst.com/handouts.html?CFID=971567&CFTOKEN=71383217
  Printable sheets to support at-home reading.
  
  
• Reading Quest
  http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
  Strategies for reading comprehension. Graphic organizers and descriptions for their use.
  
  
• Check the Phone Book
  http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/schoolimprovement/effective/resources/languagearts/phonebook.pdf
  8 printable activities where students access information in the phone book.
  
  
• 21st Century Literacies
  http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/
  Explanation of literacies with lessons provided -
  • Visual Literacy
  • Historical Literacy
  • Cultural Literacy
  • Infomration Literacy
  • Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
  • Scientific Literacy
  • Mathematical Literacy
    
    
• Reading for Information: The Trash-N-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking
  http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=45
  A lesson from The Big6 Information Literacy research inquiry model.
  
  
• LINKS Learning
  http://www.linkslearning.org/Home/_index.html
  Reading lesson plans with online resources, some for printing.
  • Teacher Links
    You will have to have pop-ups accessible to access the resources.
  • Glossary of Writing Terminology
    
    
• Current Events
  http://www.eduplace.com/ss/current/
  Read an article on-line or print it for shared reading and class discussion. Then have the students complete the on-line quiz. Teacher's guides and more activities are listed.  There is a new news article posted every month. (American topics)
  
  
• Reading Rainbow
  http://www.canlearn.com/
  Click on 'Reading Rainbow' for lesson plans in pdf files of some of the books.
  
  
• Book Adventure
  http://www.bookadventure.com/
  Book lists and quizzes for each title Gr. K-8
  You have to register first to access the resources and activities. Teachers need to set up their classes at the site first. Well worth the effort!
  
  
• Story Place: The Children's Digital Library
  http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp
  On-line stories using Macromedia Flash. Activities included. Themes- animals, colours, crocodiles, monkeys, teddy bears. More to come...
  
  
• GameGoo
  http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/intro11.html
  Games to help develop early literacy skills for kindergarten, Gr. 1 & Gr.2. Uses Flash Player 4.
  
  
• All America Reads!
  http://www.allamericareads.org/
  Use the left hand menu to access lesson plans.
  
  
• CyberGuides Grades K-3
  http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
  Book and novel studies with lessons and on-line activities.
  
  
• Four Blocks Literacy Framework
  http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/guided_reading_block.htm
  Guided reading and self-selected reading lesson formats and mini-lessons.
  
  
• Phonemic Awareness & Phonetic Activities with Kid Pix
  http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/archive/KidPix_phon_aware.htm
  Activates to add to your Kid Pix files. There are links to more activities.
  
  
• Learning to Read
  http://toread.com/
  Many valuable links to resources for language arts and reading research.
  
  
• Reading Strategies that Assist Content Area Reading
  http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/sarasota/interdiscrdg.htm#Other%20Activities%20for%20the%20Readin3021
  Teaching strategies with links to worksheets.
  
  
• Flat Stanley Project
  http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/index.htm
  Join your class in a Flat Stanley project. You can sign-up directly with the project or start an activity with your colleagues. Although, the on-line connection is very exciting for students and their parents. This is a Canadian run program but all countries are welcome to join in. View the curriculum links, and then read the how to section for classroom activity ideas and templates.
  

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