Welcome to Great Web Resources! We are pleased to offer to our patrons not only the products and services of the ERIC system but also links to other fine educational organizations. Presented below are some which our clients have informed us have been most useful to them and which we have, ourselves, found most valuable in responding to your questions.

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Author Information	Book Lists and Prizes	Book Reviews
Book Publishers Online	Books Online	Children's Literature Online
Disabilities and Gifted Education	Education: Government and General	ERIC Clearinghouses
ERIC Support Facilities	Family and Parental Web Sites	Homeschooling Resources
Internet Use in the Classroom	Journalism	Lesson Plans
Literacy Resources PreK-12	Newspapers / Journals Online	Poetry
Reading Organizations and Institutes	Reading and Literacy Statistics	Reference Tools
Speech Communication	Standards in Education	Statistical Information
Storytelling Resources	Theatre and Drama Resources	Writers' Resources

Author Information

• Children's Authors and IllustratorsFrom ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication, extensive links to children's illustrators and authors; arranged by state and author's last name.
  

• Invite an Author to Your SchoolInformation about how to invite a children's author/illustrator to your school, as well as list of authors/illustrators who would do school visit.
  

• BookSpotfeatures online texts, book reviews, reading lists, author and publisher information, book stores, book news and events.
  

• Great WritersInformation about authors from different parts of the world and history; arranged alphabetically by last name.
  

• Yahoo author metaindexExtensive information about authors, literary awards, theories, and practice in literature.
  

• African American AuthorsProviding biographical information, interviews, and articles about contemporary African American authors.
  

• American Authors on the WebInformation on American authors from 1559 to 1950.
  

• Asian American WritersBiographical sketch of Asian American poets, playwrights, critics, and novelists.
  

• British and Irish Authors on the WebInformation on British and Irish authors from c. 600 to mid-of-20th century.
  

• Latino AuthorsLinks to Latino authors' webpages with Biographical and Bibliographical Information.
  

• Native American Authors Information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
  

• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of ColorsInformation of woman writers of diverse ethnic backgrounds; arranged by ethnicity.
  

• Children's Storybooks OnlineStories for children, divided into three sections: young children, older children, and young adults.
  

• Children's Books OnlineLinks to a variety of sites of online children's books and stories.
  

• The Internet Public Library Online Texts CollectionThe IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 19,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
  

• Banned Books OnlineA special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
  

• BookSpotfeatures online texts, book reviews, reading lists, author and publisher information, book stores, book news and events events.
  

• Classics at the Online Literature LibraryA collection of full-text books, arranged by author's last name.
  

• Internet Classics ArchivesA searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
  

• The On-line Books PageFrom University of Pennsylvania, including a searchable database for more than 15,000 online fulltext books.
  

• Project BartelbyProviding books of different genres online as well as a searchable database.
  

• Project GutenburgThe Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
  

• Web Resources on American and English LiteratureFrom University of Connecticut; a site organized by different periods in English Literature.
  

• The Words of HumankindA collection of links on literature, political speeches, and expression of faith.
  

• Children's Book PrizesFrom ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication; a list of major children's literature awards in the United States (e.g. Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King) and other countries.
  

• AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and PhotosA collection of lists of literary award winners with an emphasis on science fiction awards, such as Hugo, Nebula, Stoker and Aurora nominees and award winners.
  

• From Book Trust; book awards and prizes for both children's and adult books published in United Kingdom.
  

• BookWeb: Literary Award Winners Award lists from many awards, including the Book Sense Book of the Year Award, the Caldecott and Newbery medals, the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the Pulitzer.
  

• The Electronic Reader's Advisor: Lists and Links for Book LoversFrom New York Public Library; booklists of various genres for adult readers.
  

• Literary Awardslinks to lists of current and past award winners and nominees of the major Australian and international literary awards.
  

• Literature Awards.comLinks to a list of major literary awards, both for children and adults, national and international.
  

• National Book AwardsThe goal was to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity of reading in general.
  

• The Pulitzer PrizesThe history of the awards, as well as the works and profiles of the winners.
  

• Children's BookwatchProviding a list of children's books reviewed since September 2001; arranged by genres.
  

• Reviews of Children's Books.From ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. A collection of links on reviews of children's books.
  

• The ScoopOffering brief reviews of the recently published children's books.
  

• Young Adult Literature Book Review Sources for K-12From Internet School Library Media Center, this page focuses on sources of book reviews and related information for children's and young adult literature in education.
  

• BookBrowserOver 7,000 books are reviewed in this site, arranged by genres.
  

• Directory of Book Reviews on the WebA collection of links providing review information on books and non-print materials of various types, such general review sites, audio visual materials, children's and young adults books, and computing and internet books.
  

• Education Review: A Journal of Book ReviewsEducation Review publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice.
  

• The Midwest Book ReviewThe Midwest Book Review publishes seven monthly publications for community and academic library systems in California, Wisconsin, and the upper Midwest.
  

• Yahoo: Book ReviewsA site providing extensive links to book review resources.
  

• The Colossal Directory of Children's Publishers OnlineProviding extensive information for booksellers, authors, and illustrators.
  

• Publishers and Children's BookstoresLinks to children's book publishers and booksellers.
  

• American Booksellers AssociationA not-for-profit organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members of independently owned bookstores with retail storefront locations through advocacy, education, research, and information dissemination.
  

• Educational Publisher DirectoryA list of publishers which specialize educational books
  

• WorldWide Web Virtual Library Publishers Pages
  

• ERIC/REC Children's and Adolescent Literature Resource Links Guide

• Disabilities and Gifted Education

• National Resources for Adults with Learning Disabilities

• Talented and Gifted Resources Home Page

• Center for Talented Youth at John Hopkins University

• State Departments of Education

• Educational Sites and Resources Offers a great list of educational sites on all subjects.

• The White House for Kids A very fine site on which kids can learn about our White House.

• News from the U.S. Department of Education, including press releases, speeches and testimony, updates on legislation and budget activity, and funding opportunities.

• Guides to materials and services available from the federal government to teachers, researchers and parents.

• Sunspace A great guide to information regarding schools in America, including school district profiles, strategic planning, and technological developments.

• National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education

• Indiana Dept. of Education Vast amounts of statistical and other information regarding educational matters in Indiana, plus links to the home pages of other state departments of education and to other educational sites around the world.

• National Spelling Bee from Scripps Howard

• ERIC Systemwide Website Offering comprehensive links to all ERIC components

• EDRS The ERIC Document Reproduction Service

• ERIC Processing and Reference Facility

• Adult Career Vocational Education

• Assessment and Evaluation

• Community Colleges

• Counseling and Student Services

• Disabilities and Gifted Education

• Educational Management

• Elementary and Early Childhood Education

• Higher Education

• Information & Technology

• Languages and Linguistics

• Reading, English, and Communication

• Rural Education and Small Schools

• Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education

• Social Studies/Social Science Education

• Teaching and Teacher Education

• Urban Education

• National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (affiliated with the Clearinghouse on Social Studies/Social Science Education)

• Parents Place: The Parenting Resource Center on the Web

• KidBibs: for kids who are going places.

• National Parent Information Network

• KidsCanLearn Providing the educational materials and services that parents and teachers need to help their children and students become happy, effective, and highly motivated students!

• Publications for Parents Pamphlets and Brochures available online from the U.S. Dept. Education designed to address parents' concerns about their childrens' educations.

• Family Involvement Partnership for Learning

• Sites for National, State, and Local Support

• Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998 [1999] - by Lawrence M. Rudner

• Home School Legal Defense Association (Report by Dr. Larry Rudner)

• Writings About Homeschooling

• Jon's Homeschool Resource Page

• Home Education Magazine

• The Homeschooling FAQ

• Parent's Place

• Classroom Connect on the Internet

• Language Arts Resources on the web, for your classroom.

• The Teacher Education Internet Server The Information network of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (InSITE). The network is sponsored by SITE and is dedicated to exploring ways in which the Internet can benefit teacher education programs around the world.

• Pathways to School Improvement Here you'll find the latest in education research, synthesized and arranged in varying levels of depth to meet your needs.

• Education Internet Resources from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Good guide to general resources, curriculum materials, and hardware and network resources.

• Hotlist of K-12 Internet Sites

• K-12 School Database Search Engine Use this search engine to find schools matching your criteria from a database of over 1000 independent schools.

• Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of web technology into K12 schools. The goals of this project are to help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers, to link K12 WWW servers and the educators and students at those schools, and to help K12 educators find and use K12 appropriate resources on the WWW.

• Internet Educational Resources Australia-based site offering access to resources world-wide. A nice starting point.

• American Society of Newspaper Editors

• Journalism Education Association

• National Press Club

• National Scholastic Press Association

• Journalism Associations, Clubs, Foundations, Guilds, Institutes & Societies

• High School Journalism Institute

• ACEJMC The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications

• ERIC/REC Lesson Plan Home Page

• Lesson plans extracted from publications of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication

• ERIC/REC Literacy Education Resources Page From early childhood to high school, we offer an extensive online collection of literacy resources from theory to lesson plans.

• ABYZ News Links

• Newspapers on the Web

• Newspapers Online An easy to use tool for referencing the world's newspapers.

• The Electronic Newsstand Wide selection of articles from the world's leading magazines, newspapers, and catalogues.

• Harvard Education Newsletter

• Electronic Texts Journals Newsletters Magazines and Collections

• Online Journals and Newspapers from the CMU English Dept.

• Alan Review A fine online journal of young adult literature

• Indiana University Electronic Journal Collection

• Papers on Language & Literature, A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature.

• The Academy of American Poets Currently includes information on National Poetry Month.

• Chinese Poetry Sites on the Web

• Poetry.Com: The Definitive Source for Poetry on the Web

• Glossary of Poetic Terms Yahoo Guide to Poets and Poetry

• The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: Research Evidence

• National Reading Panel Releases Report on Research-Based Approaches to Reading Instruction

• Understanding the Primary Role of Word Recognition in the Reading Process: Synthesis of Research on Beginning Reading

• Major Implications for Early Reading Instruction

• National Reading Panel Reports Combination of Teaching Phonics, Word Sounds, Giving Feedback on Oral Reading Most Effective Way to Teach Reading

• Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading

• The Importance of Teaching Phonemic Awareness (an extended "thread" from the TeachersNet Chatboard) Various studies and statements from G. Reid Lyon, Acting Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Report on Learning Disabilities Research, from Reid Lyon

• Testimony of G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D. on Children's Literacy, Before the Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives

• From Letters to Sound

• Why Johnny Can't Decode. Washington "Post" articles of October 27, 1996.

• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children: 1998 report from the National Research Council (NRC)

• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement

• Center on English Learning and Achievement

• Content Literacy Information Consortium

• International Reading Association

• Language: An enormous variety of materials related to language and linguistics.

• Laubach Literacy The world's oldest and largest literacy organization

• Learning to Read: Resources for Language Arts and Reading Research

• Learning to Read, Reading to Learn Project

• Literacy Initiatives in Primary Schools: An Overview

• National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators

• National Association for the Education of Young Children

• National Institute for Literacy

• National Literacy Trust

• National Reading Conference

• Project Read

• Reading and Writing Internet Resource Page From the Language Education Dept. of the Indiana University School of Ed.

• Reading is Fundamental

• Whole Language Umbrella

• LibrarySpot a 24-hour virtual library resource center, including reference tools, periodicals and online texts.

• Dictionaries On-Line

• Gazetteer, U.S.

• Grammar: An Online English Grammar

• Quotations: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• Style Guide: Strunk's Elements of Style

• Style Guide to Citations of Electronic Sources (from the MLA)

• Thesauri: Roget's Thesaurus

• The Virtual Reference Desk Quick Reference at your fingertips.

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant An interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook.

• National Communication Association

• World Communication Association

• International Communication Association

• High School Debate Topics Online

• Online Rhetoric Courses

• American Society for History of Rhetoric Interest Group

• Rhetoric and Composition

• Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Rhetoric

• Building the Best Education System: The Need for Nationwide Standards

• Developing Educational Standards Presents educational standards information by discipline, organization, and state.

• Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

• English Standards of Learning for the Virginia Public Schools

• Reading Scorecards for the States and the Nation

• Reading Reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress

• Executive Summary from the National Assessment of Educational Progress

• Report on Learning Disabilities Research

• National Center for Educational Statistics Statistical tables, charts, and studies reporting the condition of education.

• National Center for Educational Statistics Additional information from the NCES.

• Resources for Storytellers

• Jed's Guide to Story Reading Everything you need to prepare for a successful storytelling session.

• Theater and Drama Links on the World Wide Web

• National Standards for Theatre Education

• High School Theater Programs

• Curricular Resources in Drama and Theatre

• Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults

• Aaron Shephard's Reader's Theater Page

• DramaWest - The Association of Drama Educators

• Reader's Theater

• Theatre & Drama: In the Library and On the Web

• Scotts Theatre Links

• Drama Resources

• Stage Manager's Unanimous presents the best home pages in theatre

• Educational Theatre Association

• International Thespian Society

• Theatre Central

• Samuel French, Inc. Since 1830, providing published scripts to theatrical producing groups throughout the world.

• Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights.

• Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.Specializes in full-length, contemporary American plays.

• Creative Dramatics in the Language Arts Classroom

• LA Theatre Works: Plays and Curriculum Study Guides

• INKSPOT: The Writer's Resource

• Children's Writing Resource Center Practical information for people desiring to write and publish for children.

• Information about Children's Writing This is a listserv for people interested in writing or illustrating children's books.

• Kidlink: A source for internet pen pals.

• Teachers and Writers Collaborative

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant An interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook.

• Resources for Writers and Illustrators

• Children's Writing

• Help Your Child Learn to Write Well

• About.com Writing Instruction Resources for Secondary School Educators

• Casting the Rules of Writing in a New Light

• Creative Writing for Kids

• Young Authors Workshop

• ResearchPaper.com

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