http://pbskids.org/island/preview/games-phonemicawareness.html

PBS Kids - Website of games that promotes phonemic awareness. These games are fun, easy to follow, and are very engaging. This is a great resource to use as additional support for building students' phonemic awareness. Accessing this site can be a part of a literacy center station.

http://www.k12reader.com/effective-strategies-for-teaching-phonemic-awareness/

This website suggests numerous strategies for teaching phonemic awareness, such as using specific grouping and timing techniques (e.g., small group instruction and less than 30 min sessions), individual instruction, using magnetic letters for instruction, and using motion (e.g., clapping and tapping) to help teach these skills. This site provides links to other resources such as for writing, vocabulary, and grammar.

http://ici-bostonready-pd-2009-2010.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/an+investigation+into+teaching+PA+through+shared+reading+%26+writing.pdf/147770313/an+investigation+into+teaching+PA+through+shared+reading+%26+writing.pdf

This article looks at teaching phonemic awareness to young children through embedding sound talk into shared reading and writing experiences. The study looked at the effectiveness of this strategy over a course of two months. The study concluded that sound talk included in small group shared reading and writing experiences was beneficial to emergent readers. The study concluded that instruction in phonemic awareness should take place during natural occurring literacy events.

http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/40626_1.pdf

This article looks at the important strategies for teaching phonemic awareness. This article provides detailed description of each strategy (e.g., rhyme generation), but also provides a framework for teaching these strategies. The article also provides suggestions for differentiation for English learners as well as for students with disabilities.

http://www.literacyresourcesinc.com/resources/assessments/

This website provides links to assessments that can be used to determine students' phonemic awareness. There are links to assessments for preschool through first grade. Each assessment provides detailed instructions for administering and scoring the assessment. This is a formal/standardized assessment.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ScholasticU/pdfs/Phonemic%20Awareness%20Assessment.pdf

This is a direct link to a phonemic awareness assessment on Scholastic's website. The format is student friendly and assesses many aspects that are needed to indicate progress. This is more of an informal assessment for phonemic awareness.

http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/PDF/G2-3/2-3PA_2.pdf

This link provides materials, instructions, and goals of numerous phonemic awareness activities. Many of these activities are linked to the common core state standards. These activities can be completed in small groups or as individual tasks. Some of the games within this document can be great review or a whole class game on Fridays.

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teach-phonemics

This video shows how to teach phonemic awareness by acting out single -syllable words. The teacher moves from whole group instruction to guided practice, to individual assessment. The teacher would hold up a word, read the word, the students sounded out the words, and then the students made a physical action. For guided practice, the teacher had the whole group read the word and then do the action of the word. For the individual assessment, the teacher had one student read the word and show the physical action of the word.

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies#skill1039

The strategies on this website are divided into before reading, during reading, and after reading activities. The strategies listed can all be used directly within the classroom.

http://www.readingfirst.virginia.edu/prof_dev/phonics/iadpss.html

This website provides descriptions of six activities that promotes teaching phonics. These activities can easily be incorporated into guided reading instruction.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxqYW5yaWNoYXJkc29ucmVhZGluZ3xneDo2OTJlODk0OTgxYWQxYzYw

This website provides detailed instruction on how to provide phonics instruction during word study. This document provides some scripts on what to say during each activity.

http://www.kizclub.com/phonicsactivities.htm

This website provides a variety of phonics activities. The activities range from games to resources that can be used in small group instruction.

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/

This website provides free games, activities, and worksheets for learning phonics. These can be great literacy center activities.

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm

This website provides interactive online games that promote learning phonics. The games are for ages Kindergarten through sixth grades.

http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/G4-5/45APPartOne.pdf

This website provides activities for phonics instruction at a higher level. Activities focus on homophones, multisyllabic words, and dipthongs.

http://pbskids.org/island/preview/games-phonics.html

This website has many phonics games for emergent readers. It also has resources for their parents as well. These games are fun and interactive.

http://www.education.com/activity/fluency/

This website provides fluency activities for students from Kindergarten to High School. The activity descriptions provide links to materials, reviews of the activity, and a variety of other resources.

http://www.k12reader.com/reading-fluency-and-instruction/

This article provides strategies for increasing reading fluency. Some of the strategies are completed orally during whole group or small group instruction.

http://www.oneminutereader.com/

This application helps students to become better readers by having them read along with an experienced reader. This app would be useful in classrooms that use iPads. It can also be used in a literacy station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U8pjX4p2c

This is a video demonstrating how Read Naturally, a commercial reading program, increases reading fluency for students. This program involves students reading a passage aloud multiple times, promoting improved scores each time the student reads.

http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/pdf/GK-1/F_Final.pdf

This link has activities for improving reading fluency for younger students. These activities assess a student's oral reading fluency as well as their visual scanning abilities. The materials are provided within this document.

https://www.readinga-z.com/fluency/fluency-practice-passages/

This link provides different reading passages to use for assessing oral reading fluency. The website provides a link to the passage so teachers can download the materials when needed. The passage levels correlate with the A-Z reading levels.

http://www.wou.edu/~brownbr/Classes/The_Six_Minute_Solution/3_Six%20Minute%20Solution_SecndLvl/1_Six%20Minute%20Solution_SecndLvl_ppi-152.pdf

Six Minute Solution is another commercial based reading program aimed at improving students' reading fluency. This program is directed toward middle and high school students. It involves oral reading trials, graphing goals, and peer-reading sessions.

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies#skill1040

The strategies on this website are divided into before reading, during reading, and after reading activities. The strategies listed can all be used directly within the classroom.

http://www.matsuk12.us/cms/lib/AK01000953/Centricity/Domain/100/SEP%20Grant/LINCing-LINCS%20Sherrifinal.pdf

This is a powerpoint presentation on the LINCS strategy for learning new vocabulary. This strategy can be used in general education classrooms and special education classrooms. It is meant to be used in content area classes that have a heavy focus on vocabulary and definitions.

http://nclrc.org/teachers_corner/classroom_solutions_yana/vocabulary_activities.html

This website provides a list of vocabulary activities that can be used in three stages of vocabulary development. The website provides the activities, their descriptions, the needed materials, the goal of the activity and some hints on how to make the activity more successful based upon student abilities.

http://www.vocabulary.com/

A cool, interactive dictionary, that caters to you. The site allows you to create an account, where it keeps track of the vocabulary that you know or are likely to need to look up. There is a section called The Challenge, where it tests you on different vocabulary words and their meanings. It keeps track of the words you know and continues to assess you on the words you don't know. The questions range from multiple choice, fill in the blank, or to reference a picture. This would be a good tool to use for test preparation for standardized tests.

http://learningtasks.weebly.com/vocabulary-strategies.html

This is an excellent resource for vocabulary strategies. This website provides 15 different vocabulary strategies that can be used in the classroom. Each strategy listed has a description of the strategy and instructions for how to use it. Some strategies have a link to download the needed materials.

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/word-play/unscramble-the-words/

This is a website for vocabulary games. Students can play games related to building sentences, spelling, identifying homophones, syllables, matching, and a lot more. Some of these games also to help build students' knowledge on using the computer.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber

This article provides general tips and considerations for teaching vocabulary. The author mentions a researcher who is an expert on direct instruction when teaching vocabulary - Robert Marzano. Mr. Marzano has done a lot of research about this particular method for teaching vocabulary.

https://www.flocabulary.com/vocabulary-lessons/

This is a great website and resource for teaching vocabulary through interactive videos and songs. Flocabulary has resources for students in Kindergarten through eighth grades. The videos and lessons on this site are aligned to CCSS. Although this is a paid curriculum, it may be a good idea to advocate to buy this curriculum. It is a great additional tool to have because it is interactive and engaging.

http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/e/teachers/resources/spelling-and-vocabulary-activities

This website offers a variety of online vocabulary games for grades Kindergarten through sixth grades. These games are interactive, where students have to listen to the words as well as spell, match, and find the word meanings.

http://www.education.com/activity/first-grade/comprehension/?filter=activities

This link provides information and ideas about comprehension activities that can be used in the classroom for grades preschool to high school. The activities listed on this website use materials that are easy on a teacher's budget. Many of the activities use materials that are already within a classroom or could be borrowed from another teacher's classroom.

http://www.upperdarbysd.org/images/blog/1572/Seven-Strategies-to-Teach-Students-Text-Comprehension--Rea.pdf

This article provides seven strategies to teach students to help them improve their comprehension as they read books. The strategies discussed have general descriptions of how the strategies should be taught. This article gives a good starting point for addressing students' needs.

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This document provides instruction on assessing students' comprehension while they read. The document has a list of strategies and questions that link to the strategies. I think this would be a great tool use during small group instruction or in one-on-one instruction. (This document is from Jan Richardson's "Next Step to Guided Reading."

http://www.benchmarkeducation.com/best-practices-library/comprehension-strategies.html

This article provides sample comprehension lessons on how to teach comprehension lessons. It also provides types of comprehension strategies and teaching strategies.

http://www.teachertube.com/video/story-retelling-218197

This video demonstrates how to teach students to retell stories that they have read, using a document camera and creativity. It is a good process to teach young students. It can be modified on many different levels.

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/academic-choice-lesson

This video provides a guided lesson on teaching the comprehension strategy of retelling. The lesson in this video is for first grade students, but can be adapted for numerous grade levels.

http://pbskids.org/games/reading/

Many games on this website have students read a story and answer questions as they read. Many of the interactive books read the story aloud, highlight key vocabulary words, and provide definitions. It is a cool tool to use.

http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/practiceguide.aspx?sid=14

This is a link to a list of best practices to use for improving reading comprehension for students with disabilities. Each of these strategies is a research-based practice. The article provides the number of research projects that have used the strategy.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/hooking-struggling-readers-using-books-they-can-and-want-read

This article provides suggestions on how to get students interested in reading. The article lists book genres and the types of features those books need to have in order to hook readers. The article even provides suggestions for "hooking" and motivating struggling readers.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-motivation-what-research-says

This article provides information on the research that supports using specific strategies for teaching/encouraging reading motivation. The article discusses the important components of reading motivation.

http://www.adlit.org/article/27759/

This article by the US Department of Education provides a few strategies for motivating students to read. The article also lists some of the roadblocks that teachers may encounter when motivating their students.

http://www.teachtci.com/pdf/webinar_handouts/Strategies_to_Motivate_Struggling_Readers.pdf

This document provides games and activities that motivate students to read. There are explanations for each activity and lists of required materials.

http://literacyconnects.org/img/2013/03/Motivating-and-engaging-students-in-reading-Cambria-Guthrie.pdf

This article describes what motivation is, the importance of motivation, and provides six strategies for how teachers can promote reading motivation.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/guest-post-helping-students-motivate-themselves/?_r=0

Awesome article that discusses what teachers can do teach students to motivate themselves to read. The article explores three ways to promote intrinsic motivation among students.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teacher-practices-impact-reading-motivation

This article discusses the CORI method for motivating students to read. The article also discusses other extrinsic and intrinsic motivators.

http://www.tandfonline.com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/0305569032000159688

This article evaluated the effectiveness of a strategy aimed at developing the motivation to read. The study discusses the components needed to be a good and motivated reader.