Language and Literacy

WAKE UP! Beware and be aware
Outcomes and Assessment: Appropriate and Inappropriate
Bilingual Language and Literacy
School Reform
Advocacy and Public Policy

Babes in the Woods: The Wanderings of the National Reading Panel J Yatvin
Beyond the smoke & mirrors: A critique of the National Reading Panel Report E Garan
Addressing the literacy needs of emergent and early readers NCREL
Advocacy documents Wisconsin State Reading Association
An open letter to G. Reid Lyon (pdf) Strauss, AERA
April Foolishness: 20th Anniversary of "A Nation at Risk" G. Bracey
Balanced reading instruction NCREL
Comments on the Reading Excellence Act K Goodman, in Reading Online
Early literacy Bank Street College
Issues in Literacy Development Jack Piluski
Law mandates scientific base for research in Education Week
Learning to read and write: Developmentally appropriate practices IRA & NAEYC
Learning to read and write: A Place to start NWREL
Learning to read - "Scientifically" G Coles in Rethinking Schools
Lessons from the reading wars Review by J McQuillan of G Coles' book in Rethinking Schools
Preventing reading difficulties in young children National Academy Press Presentation
Rotten Apple Awards Gerald W. Bracey
Seven myths about literacy in the United States J McQuillan, ERIC
Sixty years of reading research: But who's listening? Zemelman, Daniels & Bizar in PDK
Starting out right: A guide to promoting children's reading success National Academy Press
What does research say about reading? NCREL
What's basic in beginning reading: Finding common ground D Strickland
What teachers need to know about langauge papers by L Wong Fillmore & C Snow; S Bredekamp
Whole Language & the Great Plummet of 1987-92: An Urban Legend from California S Krashen
Whole Language Umbrella NCTE
International Reading Association Position Statements (IRA)
National Association for the Education of Young Children Position Statements (NAEYC)
National Council of Teachers of English Positions

African American Read In Day February 1 NCTE
Beginning with Books Pennsylvania
Book Buddies University of Virginia America Reads
Book It Pizza Hut
Children's Literacy Initiative
Family Literacy Backpacks
First Book
Guys Read
Reach Out and Read
Read Across America March 2 NEA
Reading Buddies
Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
Scholastic Literacy Partners

America Reads Challenge
Compact for Reading Guide Activities for Home K-3rd Grade
Early Childhood Summit on Eager to Learn and Preventing Reading Difficulties
Learning to Read, Reading to Learn CEC
On the Road to Reading: A Guide for Community Partners
Reading Summit on Preventing Reading Difficulties
Ready * Set * Read Early Childhood Learning Kit
Making a Difference One Student at a Time: Manual for Tutors SIU
State of the Art: Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning To Read
US Department of Education

Adult Literacy Resource Institute University of Massachusetts at Boston

American Library Association | Booklist | Booklinks

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Banned Books ALA

Books for Beginning Readers Univeristy of Wisconsin

Center for Children's Books University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

California
SCORE Language Arts
SCORE Reading Initiative
Launching K-3 Reading Online Course
California Early Literacy Learning CELL ExLL

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)

Children's Book Council

Children's Literature Kay Vandergrift at Rutgers

Children's Literature and Language Arts Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC)

Children's Literature Recommended by St. Charles Public Library

Children's Literature Web Guide David K. Brown, University of Calgary

Children's Picture Book Database Miami University Ohio

Concepts of Print
Los Angeles County
Madison WI
NWREL

Cooperative Book Center University of Wisconsin

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics

HeadsUp! Reading On Line | Nebraska site

Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development
C.E. Snow, D.K. Dickinson, P.O. Tabors, Harvard

Horn Book

Illinois LINKS Home Page

Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center

Illinois Reads ISBE

Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy

Illinois State Library Literacy Office

International Reading Association

Learning to Read John Nemes

Literacy Web University of Connecticut

LiteracyLink PBS

Literacy Chicago

MCREL
Early Literacy Advisor
Framework for Early Literacy Instruction Revised
Framework for Early Literacy Instruction pdf file

National Adult Literacy Database Canada

National Center for Family Literacy

National Council of Teachers of English

National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)

NCREL Literacy

NWREL
LEARNS Linking Education & America Reads through National Service
Literacy Assessment Profile

PBS
Between the Lions
Launching Young Readers
Reading Rockets WETA Washington, DC
ˇColorín colorado!
Talking and Reading Together

Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery OERI US Department of Education

Stepping Stones to Literacy

Trelease on Reading

Whole Language Umbrella NCTE