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Welcome to the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication (ERIC/REC). Our site is dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts.

[ERIC]</a NEW Items of Interest

NAEP: The Nation's Report Card for Reading
The Reading Pathfinder, resources to help children become competent readers
ERIC Review: A Developmental Path to Reading
First Lady Laura Bush's Ready to Read, Ready to Learn, Education Initiatives
RAND Reading Study Group's Reading for Understanding: A Draft Report

AskERIC
Q & A Service
Digests (Research Summaries)
All - New
Bibliographies and
Web Resources
Parent Talk:
Helping Parents help their children
Related Web Sites
Parent Brochures
from the Dept. of Education
Parents and Children
Together Online
READPRO
Listserv for Reading Educators
Other
ERIC Clearinghouses
Online Sources
for Children's Stories
Family Involvement
Workshops
Lesson Plans from
ERIC/REC and Others


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Up-to-date Bibliographies (many with links to websites), and Current Research Summaries (Digests), Search the ERIC database yourself, or submit your educational questions to the AskERIC question and answer service.

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Family Involvement
Workshops Family Involvement Workshops; Resources for Parents; Family-oriented stories and articles from Parents and Children Together Online and Parent Talk magazine; Senior Partners pen pal program, matching adult letter writers with junior partners throughout the United States.

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Our Clearinghouse Bookstore, containing a wide assortment of publications on Using the Internet in the Classroom, Writing, Values, Critical Thinking, Family Learning, and the full range of Language Arts Education. Free lesson plans from many of our books. An alphabetically arranged list of our publications.

Parent involvement materials for educators and administrators. Professional development workshops for teachers: Make Reading Fun;
Show Parents How to help Their Children Learn at Home.

[Videos]
Videos currently available include Make a Difference: Talk about Books, Parents as Tutors: Helping with Homework, Parents Sharing Books, and the Writing to Learn series.

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New projects in the works. Currently, Online Stories and Parent Talk, offering parents ideas for helping their children learn.

["ERIC
Based on the world's largest educational database, ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center, represents a primary source of educational information and materials for teachers, parents, and students. Learn more about our Clearinghouse, about the ERIC system, and about how you can submit your own documents for inclusion in the ERIC database.

ERIC is a project of the U.S. Department of Education and the
National Library of Education, with funding from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)

ERIC/REC
Indiana University
Smith Research Center, Suite 140
Bloomington, IN 47408-2698
(800) 759-4723; (812) 855-5847
FAX (812) 856-5512

System Administrator: Andy Wiseman
Web Graphics: David Smith
Web Developer: Michael Shermis