WEB RESOURCES FOR LITERACY TEACHERS
©2003, Denni Scates, Region 10 Education Service Center
Reading Process and Strategies
SEDL. Southwest Educational Development Laboratory's site, organized by area of reading (e.g., decoding, comprehension, letter knowledge, etc.). Contains a great deal of background on each area.
http://www.sedl.org/reading/framework/
Reading/Literacy Resources for Present and Future Teachers. This marvelous site, constructed by David Lund at the Southern Utah University, offers useful links to nearly every dimension of literacy (e.g., fluency, content literacy, diversity, comprehension, assessment). Links to articles, printable materials, and key sites. Frequently updated.
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/lundd/readingsite/readingresources/
ReadingQuest. Raymond Jones' site containing explanations of key strategies for teaching vocabulary and comprehension. The strategies are universal and well validated but the examples here have a social studies context. Included are semantic feature analysis, graphic organizers, reciprocal teaching questioning the author, question-answer relationships (QARs), KWL, comparison-contrast charts, story maps, and many more.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/
The Literacy Web. Don Leu's excellent site at Uconn; great links to many resources in all major areas of literacy. In Don's words, "The Literacy Web is an extensive collection of the very best resources we have found on the Internet to support teachers with limited time. Julie [Coiro] has organized The Literacy Web so that you may quickly explore these resources by your grade level or by a specific topic area to find the resources you need.