A blog created by teachers for teachers. Read up on the latest teaching tips, insights, resources, and other tidbits from TC Bear and the editorial team at Teacher Created Resources.
The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards.
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident. Education World is designed to be that resource for educators.
Teaching parents and other caregivers how to support the early literacy development of their children is the basis of Every Child Ready to Read® @ your library®.
Family Literacy programs address the literacy needs of all members of the family while promoting parents' involvement in their children's education as their children's first teachers and most powerful influence on their academic success.
"Great Websites for Kids is a compilation of exemplary websites geared to children from birth to age 14. [...] Newly evaluated and accepted sites are added to the database three times a year. The committee also reviews all sites within the database twice a year to guarantee sites are still relevant, appropriate and accessible."
HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.
The Literacy Center Education Network is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to deliver free, professionally-designed, education material to preschool-age children. Utilizing the power of the Internet, we distribute education material directly to children in their homes, libraries, and schools.
Originally established as the Literacy Research Center in 1983, the National Center for Adult Literacy (NCAL) has been engaged for nearly three decades in cutting edge and high-impact research, innovation, and training in adult education and technology, as well as in other areas of adult basic education and literacy.
A blog created by teachers for teachers. Read up on the latest teaching tips, insights, resources, and other tidbits from TC Bear and the editorial team at Teacher Created Resources.
"LINCS is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) to expand evidence-based practice in the field of adult literacy. The LINCS initiative features on-demand, web-based professional development opportunities; targeted face-to-face training, high-quality resources; and an interactive online learning community."--About | http://lincs.ed.gov/
The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a global advocacy and membership organization of more than 300,000 literacy educators, researchers, and experts across 78 countries. With more than 60 years of experience, ILA has set the standard for how literacy is defined, taught, and evaluated.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Create your own for your class or use one that's already created.
NCFL is a leading national nonprofit organization with an incredible mission: we are building a more literate and prosperous nation by helping parents and children learn together.
