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I first came across this site my last year as an ECSE teacher. ECE programs were just beginning to systemactically document the early literacy skills of their students, and this site provided a good place to start.

I came upon this site using StumbleUpon. It is hard to explain but the whole projoect is devoted to the development of reading skills and what happens when children experience problems. There are over 100 video interviews with National leaders in the field, interviews, and ariticles.

You must register for this site but it is free to use. For every Guided reading book there is an ESL version in Spanish.

Free-Reading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. Free-Reading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program. Check the FAQs for their advisory board, who is sponsoring and research base.

This site describles a project to convert as many picture (trade) books as possible into Intellipics, or Clicker, following a designated template so the books are accessible to students with multiple challenges. This was a great presentation at CTG 2007.