Literacy Resources
February 4, 2021
Professional Library Resources (a selection of materials for educators in Kelvin’s Library)
ADOLESCENT DISORDERS AND ISSUES
LITERACY (comprehensive sites)
- Adolescent Literacy (AdLit.org)
- Adolescent Literacy (NCTE)
- Adolescent Literacy Overview (International Literacy Assoc.)
- Content Literacy Guide
- Creating a Culture of Literacy
- Literacy: Looking at the Immigrant Experience
- Literacy Ready (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Literacy Takes Flight (Fort Richmond Collegiate's Literacy Initiatives)
- Reading Apprenticeship at WestEd
- Recommended Sites from the Manitoba Council of Reading Clinicians
- Wiley Online Library (Using Apps to Support Disciplinary Literacy and Science Learning - Jill Castek)
READING
- Developing Readers in Academic Subjects (OSRHE Literacy Conference)
- The Digital Textbook: A Digital Anthology (Jim Burke: English Companion)
- Graphic Organizers (Doug Buehl)
- Making Sense in Social Studies (Reading Quest)
- Reading Critically (Harvard Library)
- Reading Educator – Discussion Strategies
- Reading Next – The Recommendations
- Reading Quest
- Reading Rockets
- Reading Room Column at WEAC (Doug Buehl)
- Reading Strategies (B/D/A) (Greece Central School District, NY)
- Resources for Teachers (annotated websites – Manitoba Council of Reading Clinicians)
- Subject Area – Discipline Specific Questions (Doug Buehl)
MEDIA LITERACY
- Incorporating Media into the Curriculum
- Literacy with ICT (Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning)
SUMMARIZATION
- Paraphrasing Tutorial (Harvard Graduate School)
- Rules for Summarization (Carol Hryniuk-Adamov)
- Summarizing (Reading Quest)
- Summarization Techniques (West Virginia Department of Education)
VOCABULARY
- Visual Words
- Vocabulary Development (West Virginia Department of Education)
- Vocabulary Instruction (Linda Kucan)
- Vocabulary Instruction in the Disciplines (Wiley Online Library)
- Vocabulary Research
- Vocabulary Strategies (West Virginia Department of Education)
- Word Tiers
WRITING
- Teaching Writing (National Writing Project)
- A Writer's Color Guide to Imagery
- Writing Process Websites
