• Stay up-to-date with the latest research on reading and literacy.
  
• Find background information to support your own new ideas about instruction for older readers
  
• Locate that hard-to-find data to prepare your proposals.
  
• Keep informed on what other states are doing for older readers. 

These links are designed to help you find the information you need to conduct your own action research on reading.

If you have other favorite links to share, e-mail us with the URL. We’ll do the rest.

Online Journals
Find articles that support or challenge your ideas from a variety of literacy perspectives.

Harvard Education Letter
Journal of Literacy Research
Language and Literacy
Reading Online
NCTE Journals Online

Professional Organizations
Keep informed, get involved, raise your voice. These professional organizations are an invaluable collection of important information and action.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
American Educational Research Association
College Literacy and Learning Special Interest Group (IRA)
International Reading Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Reading Conference
Secondary Reading Special Interest Group (IRA)
National Institute for Literacy

Adolescent Literacy Advocates
Find information and position statements from others who feel that No Child Left Behind means No Adolescent Left Behind as well.

IRA’s Adolescent Literacy Statement
Find support for adolescent literacy in this well-crafted position paper.

Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents
Read a position statement from NRC about adolescent literacy and the importance of students’ multiple literacies.

Alliance for Excellent Education Mission Statement
Find support for helping at-risk middle and high school students achieve high standards and graduate prepared for college and success in life.

What About Older Readers?
Read an Education Week article that calls for leaving no adolescent behind.

Adolescent Literacy – Research Informing Practice – NICHD Workshops
Review some of the issues involved in adolescent literacy research. Which of these variables should you consider as you begin your own research?

Reading Standards
Quickly access state and national reading standards at these sites.

Developing Educational Standards
On the web since 1995, this well-organized site has links to standards in all curriculum areas in all states. Save yourself valuable time by looking here first.
IRA Standards for Reading Professionals
NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts

Research Reports
Find out what all the fuss is about.

National Reading Panel Report
Rand Reading Study Group Report

Research Sites and Centers
These mega-sites are vast collections of information about reading and will probably help you define your problem and suggest solutions. It’s also fun just to wander around.

Eric Clearinghouse on Reading, English & Communication
The Motherlode for online information, including literacy resources, organizations, initiatives, product reviews, assessment ideas, lesson plans, journals, and articles on reading.

National Institute of Child Health and Development
Not only a source of politically sensitive research on reading, this site also has links to other issues of importance to the growth and development of young people.

National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement
If you are interested in the literacy issues of older readers, especially as they relate to English instruction, you will find valuable information and resources here.

State Reading Initiatives
Twelve states now have well-defined reading initiatives. Some of them even mention older readers.

Alabama Reading Initiative
California Reading Initiative
Connecticut’s Blueprint for Reading Achievement
Florida Reading Initiative
Maryland Reading Network
Missouri Reading Initiative
North Carolina Smart Start
Ohio Reads
Oregon Reading Initiative
Texas Reading Initiative
Rhode Island Reading Excellence
Tennessee Governor’s Reading Initiative
The NCTE Reading Initiative

Statistics and Results
Here are the sites that will give you the data you need to make your point. If it isn’t here, it probably doesn’t exist. Or, if it does exist somewhere else, send us the Web site address!

Common Core of Data –Public Schools and School Districts
National Assessment of Adult Literacy
National Assessment of Educational Progress – Reading
National Center for Educational Statistics
S & P’s School Evaluation Service

Sites for Contemplation
And finally, what would LINKS be without those inspirational, contemplative, creative ones? Here is an eclectic collection that will inspire or inflame. Your suggestions for more links here are most welcome.

NCTE Position Statement on Reading

Public Attitudes towards Public Schools
Read this fascinating PDK/Gallup Poll. Are the results what you expected?

Reading Hall of Fame
What do all these people have in common?

The Songs Inspired by Literature Project
Motivate your older readers with songs inspired by literature, written by some of today’s most powerful songwriters.

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