Recommended Blogs/Websites

Reading Rockets is a resource-rich website that shares articles, professional development, FAQs, and tons of information about literacy instruction and support. 

The Reading League is a nonprofit organization with the mission to advance the awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-aligned reading instruction. This website contains their resources, events and professional development opportunities.

Keys to literacy is a professional learning organization. Their mission is to provide high-quality, engaging, and sustainable professional development that is aligned to research-based literacy instruction. The goal is to help educators teach literacy skills in a way that increases literacy achievement for all learners. 

TextProject, Inc. is a non-profit corporation founded in 2010 in the state of California. It formalizes a decade-plus of ongoing work by its founder, president and CEO Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert, to bring beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools, particularly the texts used for reading instruction.

This is Timothy Shanahan's blog. Timothy Shanahan is one of the world’s premier literacy educators. He studies the teaching of reading and writing across all ages and abilities. He was inducted to the Reading Hall of Fame in 2007, and is a former first-grade teacher. 

The Grammar Project is an Australian education collaborative project. In 2022, two collaborative groups of educators formed to create Syntax & Punctuation and Morphology resources. These resources are available for free to promote a culture of sharing and collaboration amongst schools.  The lessons can be edited and adapted to reflect the topics & curriculum content taught in your classroom.

Find the "Rules of English Cheat Sheet" linked here. This was developed by teacher Savannah Campbell who is both LETRS and Orton Gillingham trained. Her blog, Campbell Creates Readers contains teacher made resources and links. 

This teacher developed website contains a trove of resources for educators around the Science of Reading including videos, visuals and articles to learn more. 

This site full of resources is the Zaner Bloser Science of Reading Hub. These are meant to help you get to know the research and the concepts on your own terms. They are also meant to be shared and discussed. This includes videos, white papers, and other resources.

This link includes a list of 30 resources for educators who wish to further their knowledge about the Science of Reading curated by Heggerty.

 The PaTTAN Literacy Initiative is dedicated to the science of reading and to supporting the literacy efforts of school systems, personnel, and families in Pennsylvania.