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Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness for children, especially those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

The March 2012 issue of Educational Leadership (Reading: The Core Skill) contains an article that all ELA and literacy teachers must read: "Every Child, Every Day" by Richard L. Allington and Rachael E. Gabriel. I don't know how long and to whom the article will be available, so I will capture the key points here.

Ideas for guided reading

When my principal first asked me to consider collecting my thoughts on the work I have done integrating digital reading and writing in my classroom last spring, I began to think about how much of what I had experimented with was embedded into my practices that support student learning.

Want to get the most out of your iPad - Are you using it as an e-reader? There are multiple sites that offer free downloads of both classic and contemporary publications and the reading experience on the iPad is actually quite good.

A while back we wrote about the best places to find free iPad eBooks. The article yielded many useful comments and suggestions from you, and made me want to explore the area even more. I've been using the iPad as a reading device more and more lately, and the quest for quality, free eBooks that I [...]

Have not checked this out yet, but wanted to link it here for future reading.

check out these student made books made on book creator

The Pinterest links states that they are all full episodes.

Read to learn about changes coming to classrooms.

So, you gave in and bought an iPad. You're excited about your new life of mobile computing. To help you get things done you decided to start (or continue) using Google Docs as your office productivity suite. If this is you, than I'm glad you're reading this post.