- America Reads Challenge
 - Calls on Americans to support teachers and help ensure that every child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade. - Between the Lions
- Companion site to the PBS Kids' show combining puppetry, animation, live action, and music to achieve its educational mission of helping young children learn to read.
- Center for Early Literacy Information (CELI)
- Resource for researchers, teachers, families, school administrators, and others who are looking for early literacy information from a variety of sources including articles, books, reports, technical papers, and more.
- Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) - University at Albany, State University of New York
- Conducts research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy in schools across the U.S.
- Children's Book Council: Children's Book Week
- A celebration of the written word, Children's Book Week introduces young people to new authors and ideas in schools, libraries, homes and bookstores. Through Children's Book Week, the Children's Book Council encourages young people and their caregivers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books.
- Children's Book Week (4)
- Choice Literacy
- Resources for K-12 literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school leaders including reading comprehension strategies tools, writing workshop advice, and literacy professional development design tools.
- DIBELS
- Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.
- Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)
- National DEAR Day is a special reading celebration to remind and encourage families to make reading together on a daily basis a family priority. It is celebrated on April 12th, which is also the birthday of beloved author Beverly Cleary.
- Greenwood Institute
- Offers courses with an emphasis on dyslexia for literacy teachers in mainstream and specialised schools.
- Guys Read
- Literacy initiative for boys from Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. The mission is to motivate boys to read by connecting them with materials they will want to read, in ways they like to read.
- Jim Trelease on Reading
- Official site for educator Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook. Offers news, book reviews, reading lists, and recommended web sites.
- Literacy and Education
- Offers assorted links to papers on literacy and education, as well as links to several related gopher archives.
- Literacy Connections
- Provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, and the best in children's literature.
- LiteracyWeb Australia
- Contains the keynote address of the National Literacy Conference, case studies, and literacy links.
- National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy (NCSWL)
- Working to improve understanding of how writing is best learned and taught - from the early years through adulthood. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
- NEA's Read Across America
- Annual March programme seeking to have every child in every school across the U.S. to read with an adult. Find activity ideas, media tips, PR tools, materials, and resources to help plan a reading event.
- Phonological Awareness Resources and Links
- For academics, teachers, and parents. Features tests, links, forum, and webring.
- Read for the Record
- Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a national campaign designed to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults from across the country to read the same book on the same day. The goal of Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign is to raise public awareness about significant disparities in early education.
- Read*Write*Now
- A national initiative of the U.S. Department of Education to improve reading and writing achievement among elementary and high school students.
- Reading First
- Focused nationwide effort to enable all students to become successful early readers. Programme focuses on students in kindergarten through third grade.
- Reading Rockets
- National multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, why some struggle, and how adults can help.
- ReadWriteThink
- Offers lesson plans, practices, and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
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