Project ACHIEVE | Helpful Links

National and State Resource Links of Interest and Importance

Websites Providing Information on Academic or Behavioral Interventions:

http://www.fcrr.org - Florida Center for Reading Research
http://www.fsds.org/ - Flexible Service Delivery; Illinois Board of Education
www.nrcld.org - National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
www.interventioncentral.org - Academic and behavioral interventions
http://www.educationoasis.com/index.htm - Education Oasis offers free teaching resources, information, ideas, and inspiration.

The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning website includes research supporting adolescent literacy. http://www.ku-crl.org/
The Florida Center for Reading Research is a nationally recognized research site for teachers, parents, coaches, administrators and researchers. http://www.fcrr.org/
www.interventioncentral.org/ offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children.
The National Dissemination Center for Children with disabilities includes current research in literacy. http://research.nichcy.org/
National Institute for Literacy –The partnership for reading offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. www.nifl.gov/nifl/pfr.html
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. http://readingrockets.org
http://www.ldonline.org/ is the world's leading web site on learning disabilities and ADHD, serving more than 250,000 parents, teachers, and other professionals each month.
The Arkansas Literacy Intervention Matrix http://literacymatrix.com/ includes “best practice”, research based, curricular approaches linked directly to the Arkansas Frameworks to use with all students (including students with disabilities) to maximize total literacy success.
The Early childhood education network http://www.literacycenter.net/ offers online pre and early reading curriculum.
Advancing reading education through research and professional development is the goal of the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts. http://www.texasreading.org/utcrla/
The purpose of the Special Education Research Project (SERP) http://www.texasreading.org/utcrla/pd/serp.asp is to identify effective reading and writing techniques that enhance the knowledge, skills, and practices of special education teachers.
www.interventioncentral.org offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
The National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.
www.readingonline.org is a freely available, online-only publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).
Literacy Corner (through CELA) http://www.albany.edu/cela/ provides useful information about helping young children (3-6) develop the skills they need to begin to read and write.
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/current_research_on_dyslexia.shtml provides current research on dyslexia
The International Dyslexia Association http://www.interdys.org provides a comprehensive forum for parents, educators, and researchers to share their knowledge, experiences and methods
The Lexile Framework http://www.lexile.com/html provides a common, developmental scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty.
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize ideas, & scaffold their interactions with texts.
New Horizons for Learning http://www.newhorizons.org/ provides articles on teaching and learning strategies, transforming education, and lifelong learning.
www.centeroninstruction.org. is a gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning.
http://reading.uoregon.edu/ is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents across the country
http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/readingstrategies/read_strat.html Reading Assessment and Intervention Resource Page Created and Updated by School Psychology Students

Websites Providing Charting and Progress Monitoring Resources:

http://www.studentprogress.org - National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
www.umn.edu/ - progress monitoring tools Univ. of Minnesota
http://www.aimsweb.com/ - commercial source for curriculum-based assessment
http://www.cbmnow.com/ - CBM Now Support for K-12
www.aimchart.com - has free precision teaching (log) charting
http://www.interventioncentral.org/index.php - Curriculum-based measurement resources
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/ - The Dynamic Indicators of essential Literacy Skills (DIBELS) site - contains progress-monitoring tools for K-6 literacy.

Graphic organizers and other classroom resources teachers can use to enhance their instruction can be found at the following websites: