Websites

This website is full of so many excellent resources that can help launch young readers. There are research articles, videos, links, and blogs. There is also information on teaching reading, how to help struggling readers, children’s book and authors and much more!

This is the Haskins Global Literacy Hub. Here you will find links to FREE high-quality content for children and teens with different levels of reading proficiency. This resource library is designed to help parents and educators easily navigate through the overwhelming amount of information available online on promoting literacy development in children of all ages.

The University of Florida Literacy Institute developed this Virtual Teaching Resource Hub to provide FREE resources to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site includes many tools for virtual reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grades.

This website offers a variety of research-based reading interventions. It is important to mention that there is a section where you can select the grade level needed (ex. early elementary).

Part of the Florida Center for Reading Research’s mission is to disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in Pre-K through 12th grade. To this end, FCRR has provided a selection of resources and materials of particular interest to education practitioners.

This website offers modules, case studies, videos, and research-based interventions. Under the resource tab, the most beneficial categories are “IRIS resource locator” and “Evidence-Based Practice Summaries”.

This website is a great tool when working with students who struggle with literacy. The website offers intensive intervention strategies and provides handouts, tools, supports, and more.

The State Support Team Region 5 is one of 16 regional teams established by the Ohio Department of Education to help improve outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities. We believe that when educators, families, and communities work together, every child can learn and thrive in a global society. Throughout their website you will learn about the work they do and how they improve literacy across the state.

Nessy programs are designed to help students of all abilities learn to read, write, spell and type, especially those who learn differently, including: mainstream, EAL, homeschool, and students with dyslexia.

Really Great Reading believes that every student has the right to appropriate, high-quality, foundational-skills reading instruction. They focus on preventing and remediating decoding weaknesses in students in all grades (and even adults). They provide educators with the tools and knowledge to teach all students (not just those who learn easily) to read. This website offers professional developments for teachers, digital playgrounds, webinars, and tool kits.

WY Lit has compiled resources to help you develop a framework for online intervention and progress monitoring while your students are learning from home. Teaching and learning during a global pandemic is tough, so there are tons of resources available through this site.

The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness website provides free downloadable assessments and resources that can help you in your classroom.

The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools is an online reading course, unlike any reading course or professional development previously available to teachers. The course content is based upon a firm foundation of proven knowledge and pedagogy, research and practice that truly informs the daily work teachers do to teach their students to read. Explore the tools by maneuvering around the website.

The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) is dedicated to generating, disseminating, and supporting the implementation of empirically validated, evidence-based practices to significantly affect student outcomes and support educators, researchers, policymakers, families, and other stakeholders who strive to improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for all learners. Please review this website to find a library full of resources, recent news, and research.

The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools is an online reading course, unlike any reading course or professional development previously available to teachers. The course content is based upon a firm foundation of proven knowledge and pedagogy, research and practice that truly informs the daily work teachers do to teach their students to read.

Voyager Sopris Learning^® is proud to present an ongoing series of webinars hosted by authors, education professionals, and math and literacy experts about topics of interest to the education industry. We host a fall and spring series every year.

The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (TCLD) is a grant-funded research center developed to investigate the classification, early intervention, and remediation of learning disabilities (LD) with kindergarten to grade 12 students. Throughout this website, there is information on education research, lesson plans and resources to support teachers and other practitioners, as well as five projects the center continually works on.

The MiMTSS Technical Assistance Center works on behalf of the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) to provide a continuum of technical assistance to ISDs, districts, and schools in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework.The MiMTSS TA Center works to increase outcomes for all learners by assisting educators in developing systems and frameworks.

Educators are hungry for the knowledge that stagnates in the research-to-practice pipeline, and The Reading League is here to help clear the way. The Reading League offers innovative and meaningful professional development to thousands of educators through bimonthly live events, and through their annual conference that features reading experts from across the US and around the globe. They also partner with individual schools and districts to disseminate research findings on approaches to teaching reading that achieve maximum instructional impact, and provide school-based coaches to support educators as they refine their practices.

This website provides information on the framework for understanding and teaching literacy. There is a list of ingredients for a “literacy recipe” (lesson plan) that includes, motivation for literacy, oral language, knowledge building, concepts of prints, writing conventions, phonemic awareness, letter-sounds and phonics, spelling and word study, vocabulary, reading fluency and expression, reading comprehension strategies, writing processes and strategies, text structures and genres, classroom organization and time management, and assessment for instruction.

Flyleaf Publishing offers a Books To Remember collection that students can use to practice reading. Help your student click on any book cover below to begin reading, or use the menu to navigate. You may also use the book’s homework button to open a downloadable homework packet.

The Virtual Teaching Resource Hub of the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) has developed this site to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grades. The materials here are designed to be used with videoconferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons.

The State Support Team Region 5 offers links and articles for those looking for additional support and resources on literacy in education. There are also blogs, padlets and reports provided on this site as well.