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Catalog of links to online reading collections including Rob Waring's extensive reading links and the Project Gutenberg libraray

Six step production of recommended reading lists for publication in other sites

Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy

Easy to use tool for speed reading practice, with bookmarklet that automatically opens spreeder with any text you've selected in your browser

Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)

I really like lesson number 8: "In order to be a better writer, you have to read! Many of my posts were inspired by something I read. I want to especially thank all of the other education bloggers out there sharing their knowledge!" I agree completely, and would like to thank Dr. Cook as well for providing just that sort of inspiration.

"If you want to get published, you have to write in a way that makes people want to read. And if you want anyone-students, peers, legislators, donors-to listen to you, you have to speak to them, not read to them." (Toor, 02 March 2015, ¶23)

Morris has compiled "ten tips for making your blog posts easier to read" (¶6).

This excerpt (Israel, 2012, Ch. 5) mentions abuses and tedium of slide presentations, as well as advantages of, and strategies for supplementing talks with slide shows.

"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).

"LitReactor has three goals. To become: * A destination for writers to improve their craft. * A haven for readers to geek out about books. * And a platform to kickstart your writing goals." (http://litreactor.com/about) The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (2012.03.01): Abstracts (1) Character (15) Cliche (2) Dialogue (9) Grammar (10) Literary Devices (8) Live Reading (3) Narrator (7) Objects (4) POV (3) Phrases (3) Plot (18) Poetry (1) Research (9) Rewriting (2) Setting (1) Similies (1) Structure (14) Theme (8) Verbs (1) Vocabulary (5) Voice (16) Word Play (2) Workshop (2) (http://litreactor.com/essays/categories) 

"The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it's foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an 'F' pattern" (Introducing the F-Layout, ¶1).

Although this entire document focuses on N. American higher education settings (Part One, ¶1), Part Two: Guidelines for Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses will interest and hopefully inform administrators, course designers, program planners, and teachers working in other regional and perhaps even global contexts as well. Part two covers: Class Size, Assignment Design, Assessment, Textual Borrowing, Teacher Preparation, and resource provisions. Part Four: Guidelines for Teacher Preparedness will interest those involved in teacher education, or pre- and in-service teacher development. Part Six comprises an extensive bibliography for further reading.

Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)

"This site is for the support of the Moodle Reader Module, a module that provides quizzes on over 1600 graded readers and books for young readers, so that teachers can have a simple way to assess their students' work" (¶1, retrieved 2011.08.29).

Eyercise on-line training videos.

"The main part of this website, the History, can be read as a kind of story, in chapters, following the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins, through Old English and Middle English to Early Modern English and Late Modern English, before a brief look at English Today. But there is also section on Language Issues (including How New Words are Created, Language and Geography and English as a Global Language), a Timeline of important dates in the development of English, a Glossary of some of the technical and historical terms used, and a list of Sources and Links." (Introduction, ¶5)

"HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.