Web Resources for
Literacy in the Elementary Grades I & II

Courses: ED434 and ED435
Instructor: Ray Doiron, Ph.D.
University of Prince Edward Island
Faculty of Education

Professional Sites to Learn about Literacy
General Sites to visit Frequently

Professional Sites to Learn about Literacy

Balanced Literacy Instruction
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/britoc.htm

Good overview of how we try to balance all aspects of the literacy process so students have the best chance of finding the strategies that work for them.

Position Statemen: Best Methods of Beginning Reading Instruction http://www.reading.org/positions/begin_reading.html

The International Reading Association is a professional organization you should consider joining. They have hundreds of excellent articles and resource links. This position statement on literacy is fundamental to what you do.

Reading OnLine : http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=stokes /index.html

Reading OnLine is an IRA site with great articles like the one that is cited here. Go to the article and then find your way to hundreds of others.

Read*Write*Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Providing educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

The Six T’s of Effective Literacy Instruction
http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=413

This is a useful general article that outlines for pre-service teachers what they need to become proficient at in order to be a good literacy educator.
This article is at Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org/) which is a useful site for all literacy educators Grades K-12.

General Sites to Visit Frequently

Children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

This site is the definitive children’s literature site on the web. Say no more!

Educational WWW Resources for K-12 Students and Teachers
http://www.eslpartyland.com/linkspages/eduresources.htm

This is a massive clearinghouse of WWW resources organized by subject areas. It makes for interesting browsing and I never fail to find something useful for my teaching.

The Community Learning Network’s Index of Theme Pages http://www.cln.org/themes_index.html

This comprehensive site allows you to search alphabetically for thematic resources on dozens of topics used in our school curriculum. You may not copy the whole theme, but I guarantee you will find some amazing links to WWW resources that you can use in your school library program.

A Clearinghouse of Resources on WebQuests http://www.upei.ca/~fac_ed/distance/ed531/webquest_home.htm

If you information on WebQuests this is a site I built for my students to learn what a WebQuest is, to see examples of WebQuests and to learn how to design their own. It is simple to do an quite effective with children.

TeachNOLOGY
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/

This is a multi-faceted site with many useful tools for generating rubrics, graphic organizers, timetables etc. Try it! You will love it!