Springfield Township High School

The Springfield Township High School web page is a wonderful site to experience. It includes reading lists, online lessons, educational games, instructional videos and podcasts, and much more.

Knowville

Knowville is a great resource for all kinds of creative lessons. Educators contribute their ideas, and I encourage you to see what others are doing and share some of your own projects.

Adolescent Literacy

The Carnegie Corporation of New York site focuses on why adolescent literacy matters. The site provides information on professional programs for teachers as well as incentives such as grants.

Ideas for Teaching Reading

teAchnology and Literacy Matters provide tips, lesson plans and activities to enhance the teaching of reading.

More literacy experts...

The University of Maryland provides background and contact information for their reading and literacy experts who are happy to answer questions.

Anne E. Cunningham and Keith E. Stanovich

I recently read an article by Anne E. Cunningham and Keith E. Stanovic entitled "What Reading Does for the Mind" which appeared in the Spring/Summer 1998 Issue of American Educator/American Federation of Teachers which addresses the benefit of avid reading in terms of positive cognitive outcomes. I think it's an important study so I am including links to their pages.

Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen is a Professor Emeritus at USC and is and expert in linguistics/language acquistition. He has written extensively on literacy so I have included the link to his home page.

school-libraries.net

school-libraries.net is an invaluable site, originally created by Peter Milbury, that provides Web pages from librarians around the world. Though librarians are the intended audience, teachers will definitely benefit from the ideas presented.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is an excellent resource as it provides information on every school subject area imaginable as well as library-related resources, lesson plans and activities for students.