Uniondale High School Library Media Center

 

Websites for Reading Professionals

At all times, computers in the library and at home link to an extensive collection of web sites that support your practice.  (Go to any computer…click on the Internet icon…go to http://www.uniondale.k12.ny.us/cybrary…click on Teacher Tips…explore the links listed (Backflip, Teacher Resources Page, Resources for Teachers by Department).

 

Online Resources

Blue Web ‘n

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

A library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web. 

 

Breakthroughs in Teaching Reading

http://www.creativeclassroom.org/jf00ttt/

Strategies to reach every learner from Creative Classroom.com

 

EDSITEment

http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/

Brings together the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council for the Arts.

 

Ed’s Oasis

http://www.edsoasis.org/

It’s all here. Links to a collection of top-rated instructional sites which are organized by subject, extensive lesson plan library, lists of resources, and more.

 

Educators’ Resources

http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/language.asp

Links to top educational sites.

 

Effective Practices for Teaching Reading

http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Subjects/Language_Arts/Reading/reading.html

Sites gathered courtesy of ERIC.

 

ERIC Clearinghouse on English, Reading and Communication

http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/

This site is dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts.  ERIC sites are among the premier educational sites on the web.

 

Helping with Reading at Home

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Subjects/Language_Arts/Reading/parentsread.html

More sites from ERIC.

 

Lesson Plans for Teaching Reading

http://lessonplanz.com/Resource_Sites/Teaching/Reading/index.shtml

A to Z Teacher Network gathers lesson plans across all subject areas.

 

Ask Eric’s Lesson Plans

http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Reading

More lesson plans, mostly elementary

 

Reading Resources for Teachers

http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/reading.html

Ohio University’s contribution.

 

Teaching Reading is Rocket Science

http://www.aft.org/edissues/rocketscience.htm

Educational Issues, courtesy of the American Federation of Teachers.

 

Online Literature

Alex; A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

 

Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

441 works of literature by 59 different authors.

 

Electronic Poetry Center

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors

 

Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Directory of books that can be freely read on the Web.

 

Online Literary Resources

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

 

Online Texts Collection

http://www.ipl.org/reading/books

 

Project Gutenberg

http://www.promo.net/pg/

Online database of almost 300 electronic texts from the Declaration of Independence, to novels, to poetry, to plays.

 

Resources for American Literature

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/index.html

Links to literature on the web, as well as links to student-created literature resources

 

University Libraries: English Language and Literature Sites

http://www.lib.vt.edu/Subjects/English_L&L.html

 

 

Telementoring

Ask ERIC Question and Answer Service

http://ericir.syr.edu/Qa/

Information Specialists in answering user's e-mail queries.

 

Electronic Emissary

http://emissary.ots.utexas.edu/emissary/index.html

 

 

Questions and Answers

Ask an Expert

http://www.askanexpert.com/

 

 

Lesson Plans

AskEric

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons

 

Collaborative Lesson Archive

http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA

Access to thousands of lesson plans, as well as reactions by teachers after presenting lessons posted by others.

 

Gem

http://geminfo.org

 

 

Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators:Literature and Language Arts

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html

Lesson plans, web resources, discussions.

 

MCREL

http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp

 

Pitsco’s Launch to Lesson Plans

http://www.pitsco.com/Resources/lesson.html

 

 

Interactive Learning and Collaborative Projects

Cyber-guides

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html

Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.  The best those California tekkies have to offer.

 

From Now On

http://fromnowon.org

An e-zine dedicated to empowering professionals to use educational technology to enable students to “make up their own minds.” Tom March, the editor, is a master. User friendly, lots of food for thought.

 

Judi Harris’ Network Based Activity Collection

http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Telecollaboration/more-telecollaboration.html

 

Webquest

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

Read Bernie Dodge’s concept paper explaining the concepts behind WebQuest and look at training materials and lesson templates.

 

Professional Development

Access Excellence: MentorNet

http://stone.web.brevard.k12.fl.us/mentornet/mentor.html

Professionals share their expertise with other professionals.

 

The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/kovacs/

Offers the ability to search for listservs and browse the list by name and subject.

 

Filamentality

http://edtech.sdcs.k12.ca.us/teach/filamentality.html

A fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners

 

National Council of Teachers of English

http://www.ncte.org

 

National Council of Teachers of English List

http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk

 

Electronic Publishing

iLearn

http://www.iearn.org/projects/index.html

An international literary magazine that publishes art, poetry, and prose by secondary students.

 

Midlink Magazine

http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/