Reading-Related Websites

LD Online Reading www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/reading.html
Center on Instruction http://www.centeroninstruction.org/index.cfm
Your source of information on research-based instruction.
Institute of Education Sciences – Search for Practice Guides
http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/index.asp
- Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades (Practicte Guide)
  This guide offers five specific recommendations to help educators identify struggling readers and implement evidence-based strategies to promote their reading achievement. Teachers and reading specialists can utilize these strategies to implement Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention methods and frameworks at the classroom or school level. Recommendations cover how to screen students for reading problems, design a multi-tier intervention program, adjust instruction to help struggling readers, and monitor student progress.
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices (Practice Guide)
  This guide presents strategies that classroom teachers and specialists can use to increase the reading ability of adolescent students. The recommendations aim to help students gain more from their reading tasks, improve their motivation for and engagement in the learning process, and assist struggling readers who may need intensive and individualized attention.
IRIS Resource Locator – Reading, Literacy, Language Arts module
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources.html

Last updated: 07/09/2010