Use this guest access: ccps-english

http://guest.portaportal.com?ccps-english

videos and lesson examples from the Va. Dept. of Education

http://www.vdoe.whro.org/Readers/index.html

Excellent resource! eLearning modules that are worth viewing

http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/english_languagearts.html

Passges and questions to use for practice

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/middlehigh_school/

Includes a description of how to manage the class to teach the strategies

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/

Good descriptions of each teaching strategy

http://www.nea.org/reading/readingstrategiessum.html

A refresher list for ideas to use in the classroom!

http://glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html

Impressive lesson, shown with videos and including handouts

http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/deli/exhibits/1000543/Introduction.html

A wealth of links to sites that are loaded with good stuff!

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/reading-ms.html

A great way for students to interact with what they read

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/interactivenotebook.htm

Some of these are fairly simple, but can be tweaked to increase the challenge

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LA.htm

Abundant! Check it out!

http://www.kwcps.k12.va.us/Resources/WBIR/Middle/home.htm

Using a jigsaw approach adds variety and depth to your topics

http://www.jigsaw.org/

Engage your students in an in-depth discussion about a story or novel

http://ncsu.edu/literacyjunction/html/tutorialsocratic.html

A comprehensive list of links to websites for books and/or authors

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/litmain.html

Contains strategies and ways to teach them

http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/t.html

Strategies we know, and some new ideas, too!

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~whitten/champaign_project/reading.html

Check out the lesson on inferences!

http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/fairfield/marshall_g/INSPIRATION/Inspiration.htm#LA

These ideas are useful for middle school, too

http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingstrategies.html

Online goodies!

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Tools and ideas to teach our students to be savvy about the media

http://www.medialit.org/focus/eng_home.html

Teaching students how to analyze what they read and see in the media

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/media.html

Make sure you're sending students to sites they can understand!

http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php#readweb

Clear explanation of what to look for. This will help students, too.

http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/myoder/necc06/eFiveSixAuthenticity.htm

Everything you need to know about making a webquest

http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml

This collection of readymade webquests may save you time and energy!

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cy68.html

How is reading online different from reading on paper?

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html

More information on improving students' comprehension of online text

Reading on the Web: Making the Most of Digital Text

Resources, articles, and ideas for incorporating technology into your classroom

http://eduscapes.com/activate/index.html

A website with a plethora of resources and ideas

http://www.classroomtools.com/

This site is full of ideas for engaging students

http://www.ncsu.edu/literacyjunction/

Here's a useful example of a Think Aloud being used by a teacher in a classroom

http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies/during/thinkaloud1.htm

A site that gives practical examples of useful teaching strategies

http://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/index.html

Here are some ideas for books that will appeal to reluctant readers

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/quickpicksreluctant.htm

A variety of resources about reading and a collection of reading material

http://del.icio.us/sharon_elin/reading

Studies show that boys struggle more than girls with reading.

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/meread/meread.pdf

Organized list by historical period

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/FranklinMS/research/hisfic.htm

Oops! I've been guilty of some of these! Good reminders...

http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/creativitykillers.html

Post these in your classroom to help students to remember to use reading strategies!

http://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/Strategy_Posters/strategy_posters.html

Using questioning as a strategy while reading

http://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/questioning/intro.htm

What else can we do besides standardized tests?

http://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/assessment/intro.htm

Some useful ideas and reminders!

http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html

Lessons applied to a novel

http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/pdf.htm

The Dept. of Education offers lots of good stuff!

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Reading/mreading.html

High school level resources from Dept. of Education

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/English/home.html

Join!

http://www.vsra.org/

Join! Travel to their inspirational conferences - it's worth the sub plans!

http://www.ncte.org/

An overview of reading strategies

http://www.howard.k12.md.us/langarts/Curriculum/strategies.htm

A sample lesson to demonstrate this reading strategy

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev094.shtml

A good practice test to use with your class

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade8/read.htm

Links to all the classic fairy tales

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/

Thousands of books online

http://www.fullbooks.com/

Vigilant teachers and parents need to know!

http://www.netlingo.com/top20teens.cfm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/talkabouts.htm#atwell

http://thesaurus.reference.com/?

http://dictionary.reference.com/

http://www.m-w.com/

http://www.vocabulary.com/weeklyroots.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0907017.html

http://del.icio.us/sharon_elin/vocabulary

http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm

http://www.vocabulary.com/VUrootmatrix.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/words/003.html

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/tonguetwister1.html

http://www.sat-preparation.co.il/quiz/index.php?1ef80aef0866ae46cbb30eb76dc31947

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/sat/satwords1.shtml

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/games/

http://www.word-detective.com/

Online Etymology Web Site

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

ˇEs diversión para traducir palabras a otra lengua!

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

http://www.netlingo.com/

A funny list of unusual words and their meaning

http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm