Use the drop down boxes on the link above to navigate directly to specific topics.

Professional Literacy Resources:

Choice Literacy is a site containing guides, lessons, and advice.

Moving Up with Scholastic Literacy Place - You can sign up for the free Teaching Tip of the Week for grades 4 – 6.

Literacy Place for the Early Years (Scholastic) – You can sign up for the free teaching Tip of the Week for grades K – 3.

Pier 13 - Beth Newingham,  A Third Grade Teacher’s website that is full of useful links and ideas. (K – 6)

Real Classroom Ideas - a multitude of links, sites and more! (K-6)

The 2 Sisters, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser.  This site contains Daily 5 and CAFE information.

Reading Rockets-a great website for ideas on balanced literacy.

 Professional Articles

• Literacy Centers

Video Workshops

• Write in the Middle  What do successful teachers do to help their students become confident and proficient writers? Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers addresses that question in an eight-part professional development workshop.
• Think Aloud in Persuasive vs Narrative Writing focus lesson video.
• eWorkshop, Online Teaching Resource This site include eWorkshops in video format. itis divided into two sections, K-3 and 4-6 and includes topics such as: Independent Reading, Shared Reading.  The focus is brief, for more information to discuss some of these topis, contact the Literacy Coaches.
• Read to Live is a site produced by Alberta Education. It provides mulitmedia online workshops that include  “information, strategies and activities that teachers can use to engage and support students who are experiencing difficulties with reading. The focus is on helping students think about reading in a new way by connecting classroom experiences with students’ lifeworlds. “

Podcasts/Video Podcasts

• The Daily 5 Gail oushey and Joan Moser (4:37)
•  Conferring: The Keystone of Reading Workshop, Patrick Allen
• Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, Kelly Gallagher
• The Importance of Background Knowledge, Kelly Gallagher
• Teaching Vocaublary in the Middle and High School, IRA podcast (Research and theory support key ideas about word learning for adolescents)
• Understanding the Big Idea, IRA posdacst (Thinking about the important ideas in texts can help reading comprehension)
• Gradual Release of Responsibility, Nancy Frey, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
• Reading Fluency, Timothy Rasinski, Fluency Development Lesson
• Modeling can improve reading and content knowledge, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Daine Lapp