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AdLit.org is all about adolescent literature. On AdLit teachers can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy

21st Century Literacies - 21st Century Literacies refer to the skills needed to flourish in today’s society and in the future. Today discrete disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies. It is the combination of literacies that can better help K-12 students and adult learners address and solve the issues that confront them.

Historical and Cultural Contexts (Grades 9-12)...Sharpen your investigative skills to decipher when and where a historical event took place, and use clues for cracking questions.
Learning Resources - web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and vie
LITERACY : Cyber Playground - Find out more about literacy and approaches to improving it. Includes readability tools and other resources.
NoodleTeach: Teaching Intelligently - Tools for Reading the World: Basic Language Literacy, Visual Literacy, Historical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, Information Literacy, Political Literacy and News Media Literacy, Scientific Literacy, Mathematical Literacy
Readability Tools - San Diego Quick Assessment Programs that Determine Reading Difficulty and grade level. K-3 Reading Assessment Tool Tips for using Sight Words - Pick grade level 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Clear Language and Design Reading Effectiveness Tool Check the Readab
Reading Comprehension - reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They a re most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years.
reading comprehension connection - interactive online lessons help to improve students’ reading comprehension and build their vocabulary skills.

ReadPlease, a free program that reads text on your computer to you in a (somewhat) realistic human voice... Struggling readers can follow along as ReadPlease highlights words as it speaks. Use ReadPlease as a proofreading tool–writing mistakes are never so glaring as when you hear them out loud
Skillswise - Exercises to help you improve your reading and writing skills...quizzes, games and factsheets.....
The OOPS Reading Page - "Just-In-Time" strategies for the unpredictable challenges or " OOPS" moments of classroom teaching.
The Textmapping Project - Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content

TV411...tune in to learning, is based on a television series for adults who want to strengthen their basic reading, writing, and math skills . The "Improve Your" menu consists of Flash-based tutorials produced by The Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA). This section contains practical things such as Parts of a Newspaper, Reading Maps, Filling Out a Job Application, Writing a Complaint Letter, Finding New Ways to Say Something, What Makes a Compound Word?, Words with Multiple Meanings