Web resources for educators

The following links contain literacy strategies, professional articles, and a plethora of other resources for incorporating literacy into your daily routine:

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/ this site has a wide range of literacy strategies with instructions on usage as well as printable masters.

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ELA/6-12/Reading/Index.htm this site offers a plethora of reading resources for the educator including pre, during, and post reading strategies and much, much more.

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/graphic.html this site has an extensive supply of graphic organizers that are printable and come complete with explanations on how to implement them in your classroom

http://www.sedl.org//cgi-bin/mysql/buildingreading.cgi This site is from the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory and offers a vast array of literacy strategies that focus on all areas of reading difficulty. When you arrive at the site there is a drop down menu. Go to "Search by Strategy". Check out the other options as well as the site contains a lot of other valuable information.

http://www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm This site was developed by Omaha Public schools and contains both elementary and secondary literacy strategies and reading lesson plans.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0 Site sponsored by International Reading Association. Contains alphabetized literacy lessons for all grade levels and abilities with NCTE standards.

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/602.htm Site posted by San Luis Obispo County Community College (Cuesta College). Contains everything reading. A great section for vocabulary instruction that deals with common roots, prefixes and suffixes (affixes).

http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/intro.htm Literacy matters website. Contains teacher resources for incorporating literacy into your lessons. There are classroom applications for the following reading techniques: Questioning, Reading Expository Text, Vocabulary, How to Read a Textbook, and Reading and Interpreting Diverse Materials.
Writing offers information about Writing to Learn and Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge, with classroom suggestions for writing expository text and a research paper.

http://www.englishcompanion.com/room82/readexpository.html Webpage for helping students make sense of expository (informational) texts. Links to other resources and blank strategy masters.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Allows for teachers to create and modify rubrics for student assessment. A great tool for clearly demonstrating student expectations.