Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success

Questions? Call 800-624-6242

About | Ordering | New

LoginRegister

| Items in cart [0]

PAPERBACK
price:$14.95
add to cart

Rights & Permissions

Free PDF Access

Free Resources

Related Titles

Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success (1999)
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS)

Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format
Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web.
Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book.
Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic.

Citation Manager

. "Internet Resources." Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.

Please select a format:

Page
165


E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore

The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.

Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success

Internet Resources

There are many Internet sites where you can find even more resources, for example,

READING/LITERACY

America Reads Challenge

Calls on Americans to support teachers to ensure that every American child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade.

http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/

International Reading Association

Association home page with resources on improving the quality of reading instruction.

http://www.reading.org/

National Center for Literacy

Information on literacy and many useful links.

http://www.nifl.gov

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Includes information on reading initiatives in this branch of the federal government.

http://www.nih.gov/nichd/html/about_nichd.html

Reading Is Fundamental

Provides tips for parents and volunteers.

http://www.si.edu/rif

Page
165

Front Matter (R1-R8)

Introduction (1-4)

Promoting Children's Reading Success (5-14)

Growing Up to Read (15-60)

Becoming Real Readers (61-126)

Preventing Reading Difficulties (127-146)

Glossary (147-152)

For More Information (153-164)

Internet Resources (165-168)

Acknowledgements & Credits (169-172)

Index (173-182)

Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.

OCR for page 165
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success Internet Resources There are many Internet sites where you can find even more resources, for example, READING/LITERACY America Reads Challenge Calls on Americans to support teachers to ensure that every American child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade. http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/ International Reading Association Association home page with resources on improving the quality of reading instruction. http://www.reading.org/ National Center for Literacy Information on literacy and many useful links. http://www.nifl.gov National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Includes information on reading initiatives in this branch of the federal government. http://www.nih.gov/nichd/html/about_nichd.html Reading Is Fundamental Provides tips for parents and volunteers. http://www.si.edu/rif

OCR for page 166
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success CHILDREN’S LITERATURE American Library Association More than 100 libraries register for America Links Up campaign. http://www.ala.org The Internet Public Library Youth Division Lots of fun and educational stuff for children to see and do. http://www.ipl.org/youth/ LITERACY RELATED TELEVISION Children’s Television Workshop Provides parents with school and literacy related information. http://www.ctw.org Public Broadcasting Service A children’s home page with PBS children’s shows characters. http://www.pbs.org/kids/ CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES SERI Parents & Educator ’s Resources A site with links to resources for parents and teachers. http://www.hood.edu/seri/parents.htm National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. http://www.nichcy.org/#about Parents Helping Parents Parent organization with information on disabilities. http://www.php.com/ Family Village Web site with many resources on disabilities. http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/

OCR for page 167
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success HOME AND SCHOOL Partnership for Family Involvement The mission of this group is to promote children’s learning through the development of family-school-community partnerships. http://www.ed.gov/PFIE PARENTING Parent Soup Web site with many resources on parenting. http://www.parentsoup.com/ The Parent’s Place Web site with many resources on parenting. http://www.parentsplace.com/ CHILD HEALTH Dr. Green’s House Calls Site with information on specific medical questions concerning children. http://www.drgreene.com/ Kids’ Health Site on children’s health with a section for parents on specific medical questions. http://kidshealth.org/

OCR for page 168
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success This page intentionally left blank.