Exploring Literacy:
Links & Resources

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Children from Wickliffe Elementary in Upper Arlington, Ohio

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Literacy Today - March 19
Teach Our Children - March 20
High Expectations - March 21
End of the Road - March 22

Literacy groups can be found at the national, state and local level. Many have Web sites with information on services offered, studies and surveys undertaken and links to other organizations. Below you'll find a sampling of useful online resources.

  • The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) aims to ensure that Americans with literacy needs have access to services that can help them gain the basic skills necessary for success in the 21st century.

  • The National Coalition for Literacy serves as the umbrella organization for the advancement of literacy in the United States.

  • Between the Lions, a television show produced by WGBH and Sirius Thinking for PBS Kids, has a Web site with activities, links, resources and more, designed to help kids learn to read.

  • The so-called Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducts country-wide surveys of student performance in reading, mathematics, science, writing, history, geography, the arts and other fields.

  • The 1997 America Reads initiative encourages educators, parents, librarians, business people, senior citizens, college students and community and religious groups to help children learn to read.

  • The America Counts program aims to improve the math skills of primary school kids.

  • The U.S. Department of Education includes information on literacy resources.

  • The National Center for Education Statistics Web site includes the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey and other education surveys.

  • The site of the National Research Council includes the 1998 report onPreventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children.

  • Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. is a national network of over 350 locally based programs teaching basic literacy and English to speakers of other languages.

  • The National Center for Family Literacy promotes a national four-point literacy program that features parent and child "together time" and parental involvement in a child's literary development.

  • The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) aims to help the field of adult basic education define a comprehensive research agenda and disseminate best practices.

  • Literacy Online, sponsored by the International Literacy Institute and the National Center on Adult Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania, is a gateway to electronic resources and tools for adult literacy communities.

  • Reading is Fundamental develops and delivers children's and family literacy programs that help prepare young, often at-risk children to read.

  • The National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions (NAULC) addresses literacy needs in major cities comprising approximately a third of the U.S. population.

  • Everybody Wins is a New York-based non-profit organization that provides "reading partners" for elementary school children in the New York metropolitan area.

  • Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children is a study of the effectiveness of interventions for young children who are at risk of having problems learning to read, by the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council.

  • National Reading Panel -- a Congressionally mandated panel that released a report in April, 2000 on teaching reading.

  • Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement -- CIERA's task goes beyond finding answers to persistent problems in reading, through research of problems to the dissemination of those solutions to people who have an impact on children's early reading achievement: teachers, teacher educators, parents, policymakers and others.

  • International Reading Association is a dynamic and diverse organization that includes classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants, administrators, supervisors, college teachers, researchers, psychologists, librarians, media specialists, students and parents.

  • Reading Research Quarterly is a peer-reviewed professional research journal committed to scholarship on questions of literacy among learners of all ages.

  • The Reading Teacher (circulation 70,000) is a peer-reviewed professional journal, published eight times yearly, that provides an open forum for the thoughtful consideration of practices, issues and trends within the field of reading and literacy education and in related fields.

  • Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (circulation 15,000) is a peer-reviewed professional journal that is intended as an open forum for the field of literacy education.

  • The National Research Center for English Learning and Achievement (CELA) is the only national research and development center funded by U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) to conduct research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy achievement in schools across America.



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