• Best Practices in Reading and Writing: An interesting online community for a thoughtful examination of literacy and literacy instruction created by a group of teachers from Alaska's statewide academic consortia.
• Best Practices Portfolio for Language and Literacy in PreKindergarten Programs from Georgia's Office of School Readiness.
• Effective Teachers of Literacy: Results of a 1998 study in England to understand more clearly how effective teachers help children become more literate published online by Medwell, Wray, Poulson & Fox for Education-Line.
• Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy and Learning: This 1999 document summarizes the ideal conditions for learning as established through California's
  Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE). Although it cuts across all disciplines, several of the principles relate to literacy instruction.
• Handbook of Effective Instruction in Literacy: Download this 79-page 1995 handbook from the Ohio Literacy Resource Center in the United States that provides a brief overview of effective literacy instructional practices.
• Literacy Action Resource Papers from the Curriculum Exchange in South Australia: A series of papers which combines practical information with theoretical issues about reading and writing instruction after 1998.
• Literacy Research and Best Practices from the Literature Signature Area of NCREL. Attempts to improve the reading achievement of all students by translating research into practice through eight activities that include research, policy, and practice. Also provides links to state literacy initiatives in several states in North Central America.
• Position Statements by the International Reading Association (IRA) include Making A Difference Means Making It Different (March, 2000) and Excellent Reading Teachers (April, 2000).
• Position Statement by National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) about Learning to Read and Write (May, 1998).
• Reading Comprehension - What Works: research synthesis written by Linda Fielding and P. David Pearson in 1994 issue of Educational Leadership.
  

Be sure to visit the grade level sections of The Literacy Web for more ideas about literature and online texts for readers in grades K-12.

This page last updated by Julie Coiro on January 1, 2002.

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