Adult Literacy Links
National Center for Learning Disabilities
This site offers information, the latest news, resources, referral services, and how to get involved in their fight for more effective policies and legislation to help individuals with learning disabilities. They also have their own early literacy program, Get Ready to Read!
LD OnLine
A guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and students. This site includes the latest information on publications, technology, educational trends, and research. Click on "LD Resources" for links to national organizations, state by state guides, and many more resources.
Learning Resources
Links to short, interesting news stories to read with activities to be completed afterward, including vocabulary and reading comprehension questions. This is a fun way to learn and inform yourself if you are an adult looking to improve your reading skills. Teachers and tutors may wish to use these materials with their adult learners.
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
This extensive site provides information on this government organization leading the national effort for a fully literate America. Also includes links to find literacy resources near you, how to help adults with learning disabilities, how to participate in policy reform, and more.
NIFL LINCS
Offers access to many links, including literacy tool kits, finding a job in literacy education, news updates, multimedia materials, resources, funding opportunities, facts, and discussion boards.
LINCS Online Discussion Lists
Provides opportunities to discuss numerous critical issues in literacy, ask experts questions, and share experiences with others like you.
Literacy Resources/Rhode Island
A wealth of adult literacy information: advocacy page; policy and legislation; online newsletter; learner links and resources; learning disabilities; teacher/tutor resources and lesson plans; women and literacy; welfare reform info; and technology and literacy. Also a helpful Internet 101 page.
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
NCSALL's goal is to connect learners, teachers, and researchers in order to disseminate research and best practices to practitioners, scholars, and policy makers. Their site provides materials for literacy instructors and tips for organizing programs; it also includes a link for teachers to help assess learners' skills and plan appropriate instruction, among other helpful resources.
ProLiteracy Worldwide
ProLiteracy (a result of the merger between Laubach Literacy and Literacy Volunteers of America) is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to helping adults of all ages improve their lives and communities by learning reading, writing, and math problem-solving skills. Go to this site to access links to information about public policy, news articles, nearby resources, etc.
New Readers Press
This site contains excellent resource materials available for purchase for adult literacy tutors, programs, and learners.
System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES)
Provides practitioners with information such as material useful in classrooms and for staff development. Grants access to journals and publications. Be sure to go to "other sites" for a list and description of many valuable websites.
Adult Literacy Resource Institute
The ALRI is primarily geared towards the Boston area, but also has general staff development information, frequently asked questions, and links to other resources under "Other Resources".
Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy
This site demonstrates ways to integrate technology into professional development, teaching, and learning. It outlines typical learning and instructional problems and offers solutions via technology. Very comprehensive site with a wide range of topics.
Literacy Headlines from Around the World
Access to a variety of literacy and adult basic education news articles from national and international online newspapers and magazines. This page is updated twice a week.
Exploring Adult Literacy
An evolving peer-reviewed electronic journal that addresses the needs of adult literacy practitioners in adult basic education, family literacy and workplace literacy. Provides practical, research-based short articles on new ideas in the field, position papers, lesson plans, reviews, and an interactive forum for adult literacy providers.
PBS LiteracyLink
Resources for adult learners and adult educators, linking you to video, internet, and print materials. Provides learning opportunities and tools, as well as information for staff development.
US Department of Education - Division of Adult Education and Literacy
Learn about the federal government's initiatives, programs, and publications here.
Voice of Adult Literacy United for Education (VALUE)
Learn more about VALUE's programs, get involved, and browse through publications at this site.
eserver.org's Literacy and Education Page
This page has assorted links to papers on literacy and education, as well as links to several related gopher archives.
The Educator's Reference Desk
Look through their educational materials, check out the virtual reference desk, read through over 2,000 lesson plans, and click on over 3,000 informational links.
Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway provides easy access to thousands of educational resources found on a variety of sites.
International Reading Association
This organization serves those who help others learn to read. Find advocacy and legislative events, current events, publications and research, booklists, web resources (including noteworthy links), and other information. Learn how to get involved.
America's Literacy Directory
America's Literacy Directory is an Internet-based listing of literacy programs in every state and territory. The site will enable you to find any literacy program in your area.
TV411
TV411, the Adult Literacy Media Alliance's literacy program, offers interactive adult literacy lessons. By combining television, print, the Web, video, and community outreach, ALMA has created an effective, flexible and fun program for adults to improve basic reading, writing, and math skills. Resources for teachers as well.
National College Transition Network
If your literacy program has a goal of preparing adult learners for college, this site is a how-to guide with many resources. Learn how to develop a college transition program of your own for adults with a GED or who have been out of school for some time.
National Coalition for Literacy
Includes literacy research, literacy facts, publications, news, information on policy and legislation, membership information, and helpful links. This is a very comprehensive site.
Advocacy Links
The Advocacy Institute
Contains information and resources for developing and strengthening social justice advocacy skills through planning, networking, and outreach.
The Democracy Center: Advocacy Training and Resources
Provides workshops and tools for advocacy work. Website includes downloadable training materials on advocacy strategy, policy analysis, and lobbying.
Adult Education Public Policy Advocacy Nationally and in the States
Includes links to advocacy resources for adult literacy and ESL at national, state, and regional levels.
Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Provides support for nonprofit lobbying and advocacy through access to information on general lobbying tips and strategies, legal issues, and training.
Children's Defense Fund
Offers advocacy information and support for a number of issues faced by children and their families.
Moving Ideas: The Electronic Policy Network
Includes a compilation of background information for advocacy and activism, job listings, and links to other progressive websites.
Independent Media Institute
Nonprofit organization that sponsors independent media. Current projects include Alternet, an independent news source; Spin Project, which provides technical assistance to nonprofit public interest groups; and Wiretap, a newsmagazine source for socially involved youth.
Institute for the Study of Civic Values
This Philadelphia-based nonprofit group is dedicated to building community based on historic civil values of the U.S. and works to strengthen neighborhood communities and encourage community service and citizen participation.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Comprehensive site that includes information about congressional records and current issues in Congress and committees. Users can search for specific bills, voting records, and contact information for their representatives.
U.S. Senate
Allows visitors to find information on senators, Senate calendars, bills, votes, and history. Also includes important information about the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
Contacting the Congress
Contains contact and biographical information for members of Congress, as well as the Congressional schedule and committee information. The site provides the option of searching for information in Spanish.
North Carolina General Assembly
Information on North Carolina legislators, committees, bills, and other current assembly news.
Alliance for Justice's Nonprofit Advocacy Project
Information for nonprofit organizations about lobbying, election work, and laws that apply to tax-exempt organizations' participation in politics.
Center for Community Change
Website offers information about resources, current issues, and trainings that focus on fighting poverty.
National Literacy Advocacy listserv
Subscribers to this listserv are linked to discussions with adult learners, volunteers, graduate students, researchers, and others interested in promoting literacy.
Child & Family Literacy Links
LEARNS
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory offers comprehensive training and resources for creating and implementing tutorial programs for child, family, and adult literacy. Provides links to best practices for literacy education and research, including interactive literacy activities.
Learns Literacy Assessment Profile
Provides an observation tool to "address three stages of literacy development: emergent, beginning, and early independent." This resource helps tutors plan and record session activities and monitor student development.
International Reading Association
A clearinghouse of best practices and research on child literacy. Comprehensive site offers lesson plans, booklists, and tutorial activities. For educators, this site offers links to academic journals and other online resources.
Training Manual for America Reads Challenge Tutors
An excellent online training manual for America Reads. This easily-navigated site has specific and comprehensive information for people who want to become literacy tutors. Ideal for people who do not have a background in teaching or literacy training.
The Eric Review: A Developmental Path to Reading
The University of Connecticut maintains this clearinghouse for current research-related literacy websites and provides standards in literacy through all grade levels. Great source of information for adolescent literacy and links to strategies and practice.
Effective Practices Information Center
Maintained by The Resource Center, the center provides links to current effective practices in literacy education. Site is geared towards educators and tutors.
Reading Helpers: A Handbook for Training Tutors
This downloadable handbook for designing and implementing a reading tutorial program also offers an online database of effective practices in early childhood literacy. This user-friendly site provides links to listservs, newsletters, literacy grants, and a list of online publications in literacy education.
America Reads
Although this website hasn't been updated recently, it offers effective resources for inspiring and teaching children to read. The archived information provides tips and worksheets in English and Spanish for parents, tutors, and educators to use in developing reading skills in early childhood.
Read Write Now: Reading Partners Tutoring Manual
A collection of guidelines and strategies for assisting children in grades 1-6 develop skills in reading and writing. This basic site covers the things a beginning tutor needs to know.
Tips for Parents about Reading
This 26-page handbook offers parents tasks and popular book lists for assisting their K-8 student in the development of reading skills. Also provides a very thorough glossary of reading terms.
Verizon Literacy Campus
Free online courses for volunteer literacy tutors. This site provides information on adult and family literacy and explains how and where there is a need for tutors in the US.
National Children's Literacy Website
Offers strategies for developing cognitive skills in children from infancy. Gives parents educational experiences that take very little time. This site is useful for parents who are concerned with literacy development.
National Center for Family Literacy
Provides the most recent language and literacy research and trains tutors to develop reading strategies for both children and families. Online journals and effective product lists also make this site helpful for language tutors.
ESL
Dave's ESL Cafe
Site boasts "stuff for teachers, stuff for students, stuff for everyone." Includes job forums for teachers, resources for students (including slang, idioms, phrases, and quizzes), as well as photos, a chat room, bookstore, web links, and more.
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
Watch videos of the coalition's members conducting reading assessments as a guide, and go to their products and papers section, which includes papers, PowerPoint presentations, and curricula on how to teach beginning English speakers.
The Linguist List
Well-organized page featuring numerous ESL links in several categories. Useful for students and teachers.
ELT Newsletter
Site for ESL teachers. Stay up to date: includes a new article every week on a variety of topics in the field. Check out the archives as well.
The Internet TESL Journal
A monthly web journal for teachers of ESL. Includes academic articles, teaching techniques, lesson plans, resources, and more helpful information.
Activities for ESL/EFL students
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English. Site also provides useful materials for teachers.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The latest news on professional issues, professional development, and publications. Get connected with other TESOLs in your community. Includes resources for researchers, and teachers of all levels (primary, secondary, adult education, and emerging teachers).
Project SHINE
Project SHINE is a national service-learning initiative that builds partnerships among community colleges, universities and community-based organizations to benefit older immigrants, refugees and college students. Get involved, explore their publications, or look at their links to other useful sites.
Aardvark's English Forum
Information and resources for teachers, interactive exercises for students, a guide to ESL schools, recommended books, and more.
National Center for Family Literacy
This site has resources, links, news, and a link to their own Hispanic Family Learning Institute, which has rich resources and support services as well.
Literacy Facts & Statistics
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL)
Website on adult literacy that includes great set of useful links and relevant publications. Includes a good collection of information regarding community college programs.
Education Resources Information Database (ERIC)
This U.S. Department of Education-sponsored database is easy to search and offers access to a wide array of educational literature and reports.
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
NIFL offers research about literacy, especially in the "Facts and Figures" section.
NIFL's Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)
The Collections section of the LINCS site offers access to reports and research on all aspects of literacy in the United States. It also contains literacy resources, statistics, and online discussions. Information is organized by topic.
National Network for Child Care (NNCC)
This website provides numerous resources and links for information on issues relating to children, including child development and child literacy.
ProLiteracy
ProLiteracy's Literacy Resources section (under How We Help) has many literacy reports, facts, statistics, and links. The site also has information and statistics about worldwide literacy.
US Deptartment of Education - Adult Education and Literacy
This Department of Education site provides reports and current statistics regarding adult literacy education in the US. Also lists numerous adult literacy links.
Post-College Opportunities
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Learn about upcoming events, read through publications, and explore their programs. Also includes links to related organizations.
American Humanics
Are you an undergraduate interested in nonprofit work benefiting America's youth and families? Explore the site of this national alliance of colleges, universities and nonprofit organizations whose mission is to prepare and certify undergraduates for careers in nonprofit agencies.
AmeriCorps
Visit this site to learn more about AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps, and its many programs. The organization is involved in over 1,000 projects, including literacy, responding to natural disasters, and making neighborhoods safer. This site is designed to serve both organizations seeking support and individuals wanting to get involved.
Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills of citizenship through participation in public and community service. Member campuses bond together to engage presidents, faculty, staff, and students to promote community involvement and service.
Action Without Borders
This site is for potential new activists, consultants, and organizations, and includes resources for nonprofit managers, job seekers, kids and teenagers, teachers, webmasters, consultants, and webmasters. Includes news archives and more.
City Year
Partnering with citizens of the community, City Year corps members work on the front lines of society to tackle communities' most pressing needs. Providing over 1 million hours of service a year in classrooms, community centers and public housing developments, City Year's young leaders change lives, transform communities, and build a stronger future in cities across the US.
Congressional Hunger Center
The CHC sponsors two hands-on internship programs exploring and combating the realities of human hunger in the US and developing leaders to help solve hunger in the future. Site includes more information about the programs, events, and how to join.
The Corporation for National Service
The CNS is a clearinghouse of resources and information about service and service-learning opportunities. The site is for both organizations seeking help and for individuals who want to help, and contains details about the many programs and awards offered.
Volunteer Match
Volunteer Match is a nonprofit organization dedicated to matching volunteers with opportunities to help out in their communities. Free recruiting for organizations, and a great way to give back to your own community.
Institute for Global Communication
IGC's vision is to actively promote change toward a healthy society. The website has sections dedicated to antiracism, equality for women, environmental practices, and world peace. IGC's mission is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.
Jumpstart
Jumpstart recruits, trains, supervises, and supporting college students to work with Head Start and other early childhood programs to provide one-to-one attention to young children struggling in preschool. Includes links for families and preschools as well as for college students interesting in becoming involved.
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps' mission is to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served, and help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Request information, find local events, and apply to join on this website.
Public Allies
Public Allies identifies a diverse group of talented young adults and creates opportunities for them to practice leadership and strengthen their communities in new alliances with people from neighborhoods, non-profits, business and government. Learn about PA, how to get involved, upcoming events, and more.
SERVEnet
SERVEnet is a one-stop portal for information and resources on service and volunteering. Use SERVEnet to post and find volunteer and career opportunities and get service news, event information, best practices, and other resources.
Teach for America
TFA is a national corps of recent college graduates, of all academic majors, who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. Each year, over 1,500 corps members reach more than 100,000 students at fifteen locations across the country. Their alumni choose careers in many fields and continue as lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational excellence for all children. Site has information about the program, how to join, and more.
Service-Learning
Campus Compact
A membership-based coalition that helps promote community service on the university and community college level. Site includes funding opportunities and grant-writing information, legislation and policy news and information, program models, publications, civic engagement strategies, and more.
Civic Literacy Project
Site has not been updated recently, but highlights include project ideas (categorized by education level and by area of interest) and a comprehensive guide to marketing your idea to the media.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
A well-organized, current, and comprehensive resource for all topics related to service-learning. Funded by Learn and Serve America, the NSLC offers resource pages for Higher Education, K-12, Community-Based and Tribal (Native American) interests. Site includes service-learning primers and media information, effective practices, fact sheets, funding opportunities, lesson plans, library services, and more.
Corporation for National & Community Service
Supports service-learning efforts in K-12 schools, community groups, faith-based groups, and higher education. CNCS offers grants to schools and institutions. Website includes resources for teachers, parents, schools and community groups.
Service-Learning Effective Practices
An extensive list of best practices for service-learning from the Corporation for National & Community Service.
Broadening Horizons through Service Learning
Founded by the American Association of Community Colleges, this project promotes service-learning for students in community colleges. Site offers publications from the AACC, curriculum tools, up-to-date funding opportunities, and more.
101 Ideas for Combining Service and Learning
Ideas on how faculty and students can work together on field-related service-learning projects across a diverse collection of academic disciplines/subjects.
Break Away
A commercial membership organization for campuses and schools who offer service-learning travel opportunities during spring and fall breaks.
National Society for Experiential Education
A commercial membership association that promotes the use of experience as an integral part in education. Services offered to members include training in leadership, development, and advocacy.
The International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership
An organization that offers service-learning study abroad programs to university students in over 14 countries. Program cost and description are listed under each country.
Higher Education Research Institute
HERI serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. The institute's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. Site offers reports, papers and press releases.
National Service Learning Exchange
A training-oriented collaboration between five service-learning organizations. Mentoring services are free, consulting services are fee-based. Offers a comprehensive list of other service-learning sites.
National Youth Leadership Council
Affiliated with the National Service Learning Exchange (see above), the NYLC offers training and conferences. Site is oriented towards offering news and conference information, but has a useful database of project examples.
Institute for Global Education and Service Learning
A simple site that promotes specific projects, including a grant-funded project linking youth with homeland security efforts. Website offers useful cross-curriculum connections to homeland security school projects (see LSA-Homeland Security page). Organization also offers fee-based training workshops and publications, including multiple intelligence reflection cards.
State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network
National network of staff from service learning agencies that provide leadership for statewide school-based service-learning. SEANet's site offers a clearinghouse for state service-learning initiatives, including state strategies, rubrics and evaluation tools, and surveys.
Learning*In*Deed
An informative site offering information to researchers, policymakers, educators and students, and service-learning leaders. Site offers tools, information about state level initiatives, a comprehensive media kit, and more.
Teen Literacy
A New Read on Teen Literacy
This recent US News and World Report article offers educators strategies for helping adolescents improve lagging reading ability.
Adolescent Literacy
This website, managed by the University of Connecticut provides links to best instructional practices, articles about adolescent literacy research, instructional resources for teachers, and booklists of most popular books for teens.
LEARNS Middle & Upper Grades Resources
The Northwest Regional Education Library offers guidelines for the literacy tutors working with middle and high school students.
The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
The International Reading Association provides a link to this online literacy journal. This timely journal offers research and suggests best practices in adolescent literacy.
Guys Read
In an attempt to encourage adolescent males to read more, author Jon Scieszka created this website. He suggests popular adolescent literature for male readers and provides links to author websites.
Literacy Resource
First Book
First Book provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy – access to books. An innovative leader in social enterprise, First Book has distributed more than 65 million free and low cost books to children in need and the programs that serve them through an extensive volunteer network of Advisory Boards, First Book National Book Bank large-scale book distributions and the First Book Marketplace offering high-quality titles at reduced cost. First Book now has offices in the U.S. and Canada. For more information about the nonprofit First Book please visit www.firstbook.org.
