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 |