HNU Reading

Interactive graphic organizers! This is great because students who have difficulty writing can use these interactive writings to help creating notes and take down information. This is also a great research tool, when you have students go online to look for more  information for a research project.

Digital books from around the world 

Strategies for vocabulary building

Resources for Common Core, text sets with links to digital media.and a lot of other links

Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms features almost 40 clips of Common-Core aligned teaching and learning. Captured scenes of classroom teaching in an effort to help you imagine methods of teaching that can support students in moving towards the ambitious standards set by the Common Core.

A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners

Understanding and acknowledging the validity of different cultural behaviors and beliefs can present challenges for some teachers. This article addresses some of those issues.

Author site and home of Children and YA Lit Resources. This site also features substantive teacher / librarian / researcher resources related to multicultural literature, represented communities, Native American literature, and books related to war and peace.

From In Culture Parent Blog.

This article talks about the role of vocabulary in predicting reading comprehension for Spanish-English bilingual children and English monolingual children

This article discusses a collaborative project between the School of LIbrary and Information Science and College of Education at the University of South FLorida and an elementary school in Tampa, Florida. Students were exposed to different cultural versions of the "cinderella" story. Students became increasingly interested in other cultures as a result

Sometimes when doing a retell of a narrative or expository text, , a student will make errors. These errors can lend insight to their reading behaviors. This article discusses this.

Award winning book lists:  Newberry, Caldecott, Batchelder, "Best of" lists 

This article talks about 2 interventions used for children with autism; storybook and computer.

This article talks about mentoring programs where adults bring animals into the classroom and the student reads to the animal. Animals are comforting and non-judgemental and reading to an animal can improve fluency and reading ability by taking the focus of the child and putting focus on reading to and teaching the animal.