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18 Reasons Not to Use Accelerated Reader
http://bit.ly/bdS2nA
18 Reasons Not to Use Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a simple software concept that was at the right time (late 1980s) and right place (public schools during a transition from whole language to phonics instruction) that has simply grown into an educational monolith ....

1001 Children's Books You Must Read
http://bit.ly/5ccSHr
Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is the perfect introduction to the very best books of childhood: those books that lie behind the making of every reader.
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Kidsmomo
http://www.kidsmomo.com
Kidsmomo is dedicated to motivating kids to read for pleasure.
We created Kidsmomo to share our individual book recommendations and musings directly with young readers (ages 8-13). And we’ve also included a way for kids to share their personal book recommendations and musings with each other.

50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading
http://tr.im/vs6z
Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading

The Book Whisperer
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/
"Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts and social studies teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or in her words "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down.
After responding to reader questions in her popular, "Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column, Donalyn has returned to blog.
She will write about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and respond to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field."

Text to Speech ... software and online apps
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/textspeech/
Text to Speech (Voice) utilities can be useful assistive tools for students when reading.
For a list of applications visit this section on the Shambles website.

bkkeepr
http://bkkeepr.com
bkkeepr ... is this Twitter for readers of books ... or a social network ... ?
bkkeepr lets you track your reading and bookmark on the go, via the web and SMS. Instructions are here.
Want to remember what you read? Want to share your dog-eared pages, and see what everyone else dog-eared? Love LibraryThing, but are always forgetting to add your books? bkkeepr helps you do it, wherever you are.
You can also show off your reading on your own site.

BookGlutton
http://bookglutton.com/
BookGlutton
We set out to create a better way to read on-line; our goal was to make something different, engaging, intelligent and digital.
Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book.
We believe firmly that people want to read, annotate and discuss, right there, immersed in the text. That’s the best time to talk about a book. We also respect the solitary side to reading: people should have the chance to tune out the community.
We wanted it to be attractive, too; to be an experience. It was designed for the laptops people carry to their coffee shops, and meant for the network, not the desktop.
Finally, it had to be something we’d want to use.

Improving Adolescent Literacy
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/publications/practiceguides/
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices
This guide presents strategies that classroom teachers and specialists can use to increase the reading ability of adolescent students.
The recommendations aim to help students gain more from their reading tasks, improve their motivation for and engagement in the learning process, and assist struggling readers who may need intensive and individualized attention.

LookyBook : Picture Books to Read Online
http://lookybook.com/
LookyBook : Picture Books / Graphic Novels to Read Online

Bookwink
http://bookwink.com
Bookwink's mission is to inspire kids to read. Through podcasting and web video, we hope to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading.
The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. Each video booktalk is about a different topic, and additional read-alikes can be found on the Bookwink website. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title. We are constantly updating the booklists with our newest favorite books.

Dare to Dream Conference
http://www.rogerstv.com/option.asp?lid=132&rid=4&mid=13&oth=1
Dare to Dream Conference
Presentation given were recorded and the video+audio are available online ... with topics
The Six Secrets of Change : Keynote speaker Michael Fullan, Author, Former Dean of OISE/University of Toronto
Technology and Literacy, the New Frontier : Keynote Speaker Rob Policicchio. See how technology can be integrated into the classroom and how it can enhance presentation and projects.
Leadership and Learning : Keynote speaker Dr. Brian McNulty, Vice President, Leadership Services, Leadership and Learning Centre, Denver Colorado
If You Can't Believe It, You'll Never Achieve It : Keynote speaker Carl Boyd, Advice Teacher, Arizona, USA
Preparing Students for a Changing World : Keynote speaker Dr. Willard R. Daggett, President, International Centre for Leadership in Education
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers : Keynote speaker Richard Allington, Past President, International Reading Association, Professor of Education, University of Tennessee
Getting Immersed in a Bookworld : Keynote speaker Richard Allington, Past President, International Reading Association, Professor of Education, University of Tennessee Affiliation
Dreaming the First Free South African University Out of Nothing : Keynote speaker Dr. Teddy Belcher, CEO of CIDA City Campus, South Africa
Leading Edge Learning Panel Discussion : With moderator Dr. Willard R. Daggett, President, International Centre for Leadership in Education Education Minister Kathleen Wynne

The Beginning Reading What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
http://whatworks.ed.gov/Topic.asp?tid=01
The Beginning Reading What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) review focuses on reading interventions for students in grades K–3 (or ages 5-8) that are intended to increase skills in alphabetics (phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letter recognition, print awareness and phonics), reading fluency, comprehension (vocabulary and reading comprehension), or general reading achievement.
Interventions for this review are defined as programs, products, practices, or policies that are intended to increase skills in the areas named above. For the first set of intervention Beginning Reading reports, the WWC focused on “branded” programs and products.

Letters that have pictures in them
http://alphabet.mypodcast.com/index.html
Learn to read using letters that have pictures in them. Each word and letter has been hand drawn, originally made to help a student who was having trouble learning his letters. The method seemed to work very well.
The drawings were languishing in a drawer, but now I'm making them into an audio book, using short podcasts to accompany the words.

The National Reading Styles Institute
http://www.nrsi.com/
The National Reading Styles Institute is a research-based educational organization dedicated to improving literacy. Located on Long Island in Syosset, New York, NRSI offers a wide selection of Reading Styles products and employs the services of an extensive network of consultants and trainers who are located throughout the United States.
The Carbo Reading Styles Program, developed by NRSI founder Marie Carbo, has received National Validations as a research-based language arts program and an outstanding school reform model that produces consistently high achievement results.

Will Smith .. Running and Reading (The Key to Life)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KEMEBBwO6J8
Will Smith .. comment on Reading (video)
A video I made featuring Will's inspirational speech after winning at the 2005 Kid's Choice Awards... accompanied by an awesome instrumental (For Da Love of Da Game) from DJ Jazzy Jeff's 2002 Album, The Magnificent. ... (more) (less)
Running and Reading (The Key to Life)

Lovereading4schools
http://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/
Lovereading4schools is an opportunity for teachers, parents and children to come together, share and experience the simple pleasures of the written word via the World Wide Web.
Schools and teachers want to develop exciting and varied reading lists for pupils...
Parents want to buy books that are on their school's reading list, and that their children like...
And everybody wants children to love reading... Lovereading4schools can help!

Accelerated Reading Powerpoint for Parents
http://tinyurl.com/lyr64
Accelerated Reading Powerpoint for Parents | Accelerated Reader Powerpoint | AR |

ZAP Reader
http://www.zapreader.com/
ZAP Reader
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer.
Beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free!
If you have some text that you want to read fast, copy it onto your computer's clipboard, click this link, and follow the instructions to Zap read that text.

Spreeder : free online speed reader (trainer)
http://www.spreeder.com/
Spreeder : free online speed reader
The Spreeder webapp trains you to increase your reading speed by displaying single words in succession at a high rate.
The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other distractions. So, by having a steady input of text, we erase our dependency on backtracing.
By increasing the reading speed, subvocalization can't keep up and eventually goes away... we don't need to subvocalize to process information, as much as we may think we do.

The Reading Matrix
http://www.readingmatrix.com/
The Reading Matrix
Our goal at The Reading Matrix is to offer a dynamic and innovative online forum for the exploration and discussion of the study and teaching of reading in both traditional academic and hypertextual environments like the World-Wide Web.
The Reading Matrix is a site consisting of computer mediated and online materials designed specifically to meet the language needs of the ESL/international student population as well as English-speaking students enrolled in colleges and universities.
The primary goal of this web site is to prepare students to successfully manage the academic reading undertaken at colleges and universities.

Reader 2
http://reader2.com/
Reader 2
This site allows you to keep an online social list of the books you read and/or recommend.
After you sign up you can add books to your unique list. You can view anyone else's books and they can view yours.
Extra user-defined data can be added to each book entry to organize and describe the book further such as descriptions, link, and tags. You can use tags to categorize (and thus organize) books so that you and others using this site will have an easier time finding new and interesting books.
| free | web 2.0 |

The Textmapping Project
http://www.textmapping.org/
The Textmapping Project
Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content.
This site is a free resource for teachers, homeschoolers, and education researchers.
On this site, we provide lesson guides [http://www.textmapping.org/lessonGuides.html], opportunities to network [http://www.textmapping.org/network.html] with other teachers, homeschoolers, and education researchers, links to research [http://www.textmapping.org/research.html] on reading comprehension skills instruction, and free teacher training [http://www.textmapping.org/teacherTraining.html] resources for teacher-trainers, workshop presenters, and schools of education.

Reading Improvement : online video
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/videos/index.html
Reading Improvement : online video
Reading Improvement - strategies for improving reading rate and comprehension

Readability Tool in MS Word.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html
Teachers often would like to check the readability of a piece of writing. Edward Fry, formerly of the Rutgers University Reading Center, created one of the most widely used, and easy-to-use readability graphs for educators.
You can also check the readability level of a passage using the Klesch-Kincaid Reading Level built into the newer versions of Microsoft Word.

Kindergarten : Open Court Reading program
http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/gradek/index.html
Open Court Resources.com is the largest collection of free, teacher-created resources to supplement the Open Court Reading program as well as strategies for promoting literacy, helping English Language Learners

One More Story (subscription service)
http://www.onemorestory.com
One More Story is a library of the best of children's classic and contemporary literature. The library is designed for children between the ages of two and nine. Through a simple process, children will be able to choose a book, see the illustrations and have the book read to them.
One More Story is offering the I Can Read It option for children who have begun to read. By clicking on the "I" button the soundtrack is turned off. When a child reads a book, if there is a word that is unfamiliar, the child can place the cursor on any word of the text and that word will be highlighted. Then by clicking the mouse, the highlighted word will be spoken by the narrator.

Open Court Reading program K-6 Resources
http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/
Open Court Reading program
Open Court Resources.com provides both original resources and links to external resources to assist teachers of the Open Court Reading program. All resources on the site are free and organized by grade level and Open Court Reading unit.
Every attempt has been made to make the site compatible with all editions of the Open Court Reading program. In fact, all of the units included here can be used as thematic units by elementary school teachers of any grade and any basal reader. Resources are intended to appeal to students of multiple learning modalities and English Language Learners.

Doodle Splash : Online Interactive Tool
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Doodle Splash
Teaching K-8 students to visualize what they are reading and to create graphic symbols helps them develop as readers. Doodle Splash interactive combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking about a text by pairing an online drawing space with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text. The tool can be used for whole-class discussion of a short story (or part of a novel), small-group work, or individually, where students use doodles, symbols, drawings, shapes, and colors to construct a graphic of their story or chapter.
After completing their individual or group images, students have the ability to print out their final versions for feedback and assessment.

The Reading Matrix
http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/
The Reading Matrix : database includes interactive online reading activities from around the Web.
Analyzing Text | Audio and Text | Proofreading | Reading Comprehension Advanced | Reading Comprehension Beginner | Short Stories | Vocabulary |

Book Adventure
http://www.bookadventure.org/
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc.

Teach with Phonics Skills Chart
http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/phonics/teach.htm
Teach with Phonics Skills Chart
Not sure what kind of phonics activities you should start with? Confused about the levels of phonics instruction? Fuzzy on how to tell when a student has mastered a phonics task? Check out the chart below, created with the guidance of phonics expert Wiley Blevins. He has included key phonics skills, the approximate age most kids master them, and illustrations of mastery ?plus sample activities for each skill level from Scholastic books and programs that promote phonics instruction.

How to teach phonics to your child
http://idid.essortment.com/teachphonics_rjra.htm
How to teach phonics to your child
Phonics and Letters. Tips and Ideas on how to teach your child to recognize letter sounds, recognize letters, and pronunciations.

A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/phonics/
A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics

Four main methods used to teach reading
http://teachingtreasures.com.au/homeschool/reading-methods/reading-methods.htm
Four main methods used to teach children how to read are explained below. This is a guide only and if you wish to teach your child to read you must work out which methods suit you and your child. You may like to try each one for a few weeks and record the results or you can combine two or more methods together like the 'phonics' and the 'look and say' method.

Oregon Reading Intervention Program Reviews
http://oregonreadingfirst.uoregon.edu/SIprograms.php
Oregon Reading First Supplemental and Intervention Programs
This report, the Review of Supplemental and Intervention Reading Programs, describes the work of the Oregon Curriculum Review Panel and the Oregon Reading First Center, who had responsibility for conducting a critical review of supplemental and intervention curriculum programs in beginning reading for the first cohort of 34 schools participating in Oregon Reading First.
The Panel has identified 106 High Priority Supplemental and Intervention programs for review.

Speed Reading Test
http://www.geniuszone.com/speed_reading_test.php
Speed Reading Test
Check your reading speed to evaluate whether you need Reading Genius or not. We provide a speedreading test for you on this page. Simply click the Start button and read the article at your own level of difficulty. When you finish reading, just click on Stop Reading button. We will evaluate your reading speed immediately.

Reading Genius
http://www.geniuszone.com/rg_home.php
Reading Genius doesn't just show you how to read faster or even to remember what you read - It teaches you a whole new way of learning! Reading Genius shows you how you can benefit from new brain research performed over the last 25 years and has revealed some astonishing breakthroughs.

Reading : Paper vs Computer
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/comptext.htm
Students who read essays on a computer screen found the text harder to understand, less interesting and less persuasive than students who read the same essay on paper, a study has found.
Researchers had 131 undergraduate students read two articles that had appeared in Time magazine - some read from the magazine, some read the exact same text after it had been scanned into a computer.

Reading for purpose and pleasure
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=pubs.summary&id=3805
Reading for purpose and pleasure - An evaluation of the teaching of reading in UK primary schools (Dec 2004)
This survey was undertaken to identify reasons for the wide range in attainment in reading among primary-aged pupils; to disseminate schools' effective practice in reducing underachievement and developing pupils' positive attitudes to reading; and to describe key features of the successful teaching of reading.

Readability Test
http://www.juicystudio.com/fog/index.asp
Readability Test
Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words. Whilst they're rough guides, they can give a useful indication as to whether you've pitched your content at the right level for your intended audience.
Readability Tests | Readability of a Website | Readability of a local HTML Document | Interpreting the Results | Gunning-Fog Index | Flesch Reading Ease | Flesch-Kincaid grade level |

103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading
http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=445
103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading

Learn to Read
http://www.abc-read.com/
Learn to Read | Develop a Reading Strategy | Use Fun Reading Games | Tips for Parents |

CyberGuides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. In the guides, the magenta text indicates the language (or context-appropriate equivalent to the language) of the content standards.

Leveled Book Lists
http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/
Leveled Book Lists
These lists have been developed for two reasons:
- for parents who have requested help in finding books at their child's reading level.
- for teachers who have requested a leveled book list or have asked for help in their effort to build a leveled library in their classrooms.
These lists are in alphabetical order by the authors' names and include two or three different sets of levels within each grade. Please remember that children learn at different rates for many different reasons. These lists are given as a way to choose books that will be at a child's level of development.

KidsRead Newsletter
http://www.kidsreads.com/newsletter/newsletter.asp
KidsRead Newsletter
Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests!

Readings and Resources pdf file 52 pages
http://www.ascd.org/video_guides/reading02/readings.pdf
Readings and Resources pdf file 52 pages
his set of readings was put together by the American Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development to support initiatives to enable all teachers in middle and secondary school to see themselves as teachers of reading.

Reading Enriches Learning
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/rel/
Reading Enriches Learning features collections of carefully selected reading materials for students in the middle years of schooling. Each title has online teacher support, including student activities and assessment checklists.
Free Online Reading Activities

Textalyser
http://textalyser.net
Textalyser : Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text.
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