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The sites listed are not endorsed by the Center of Academic and Reading Skills. They present other related information on reading for educators and parents.

Resources for Texas Educators

• TENET:Professional Resources
  http://www.tenet.edu/profrec/
• Texas Center for Reading & Language Arts
  http://www.texasreading.org/tcrla/index.htm
• Texas Education Agency
  http://www.tea.state.tx.us/
• The Texas Education Network
  http://www.tenet.edu/index.html
• Texas Family Literacy Center
  http://www.texasfamilyliteracy.org/
• Texas PTA Online
  http://www.txpta.org/
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  http://www.uth.tmc.edu/

Commercial Sites / Resources for Teachers

• Beyond Books.com
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/
• The Busy Teachers' Website K-12
  http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
• Carol Gossett’s Kindergarten Connection
  http://www.kconnect.com/
• Central Kindergarten Center
  http://www.edenpr.k12.mn.us/ckc/
• The Education Connection
  http://www.educationconnection.k12.ct.us/
• The Educator’s Toolkit
  http://marlo.eagle.ca/~matink/
• The Eduhound
  http://www.eduhound.com/
• ePALS.com
  http://www.epals.com/
• The eSchool News Online
  http://www.eschoolnews.org/
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  http://thegateway.org/
• The Global Schoolhouse
  http://www.gsn.org/
• Highlights for Children
  http://www.highlightsforchildren.com/
• Houghton Mifflin: Education Place
  http://www.eduplace.com/index.html
• I Teach Kindergarten
  http://www.iteachk.com/
• I Teach 1st!
  http://www.iteach1st.com/
• Kindergarten Kafe
  http://www.kkafe.net/
• Lesson Plan Library
  http://www.lessonplanlibrary.com/
• Little Explorers
  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
• MyClass.net
  http://www.myclass.net/
• Not Just for Kids!
  http://www.night.net/kids/
• Teaching K-8 Magazine
  http://www.carolhurst.com/products/teaching.html
• Virtual Field Trips Site
  http://www.field-guides.com/
• A World of Kindergartens
  http://www.coe.iup.edu/worldofkindergarten/
• www 4 Teachers
  http://www.4teachers.org/

Miscellaneous Resources for Educators

• Ask ERIC Education Information
  http://www.eduref.org/
• The Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning
  http://www.cftl.org/home.html
• Connected Teacher: Teacher Search
  http://www.classroom.com/community/
  connection/index.jhtml
• Education Week on the Web
  http://www.edweek.org/
• The Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/
• National Gallery of Art Kids
  http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
• PBS Kids: Between the Lions
  http://pbskids.org/lions/
• US Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/

Reading and Learning Disabilities Resources

• British Dyslexia Association
  http://www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk/
• Council for Exceptional Children
  http://www.cec.sped.org/
• Division for Learning Disabilities
  http://www.dldcec.org/
• The International Dyslexia Association Web Site
  http://interdys.org/
• LD OnLine
  http://www.ldonline.org/
• Learning Disabilities Association
  http://www.ldanatl.org/
• National Academy Press: Preventing Reading
  Difficulties in Young Children
  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6023.html
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
  http://www.ncld.org/
• SchwabLearning.org
  http://www.schwablearning.org/

Reading Teacher Resources

• Caldecott Medal
  http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
  http://www.ciera.org/
• The Children's Literature Web Guide
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
• The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read:
  A Framework
  http://www.sedl.org/reading/framework/
  nonflash/welcome.html
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
  http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
• International Reading Association
  http://www.ira.org
• Newbery Medal
  http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
• ProactiveParent.com
  http://www.proactiveparent.com/
• Reading Online
  http://www.readingonline.org/

Reading Initiatives

• America Reads
  http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/index.html
• America Reads Challenge: Book Buddies
  http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/reading/projects/
  americareads/home.html
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  http://www.aecf.org/
• The California Reading Initiative
  http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/eltdiv/rdg_init.htm
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
  http://www.ed.gov/free/

National Organizations

• American Association of School Administrators
  http://www.aasa.org/
• aera.net: The Education and Research Network (AERA)
  http://www.aera.net/
• American Federation of Teachers
  http://www.aft.org/
• American Library Association
  http://www.ala.org/
• The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
  http://www.ascd.org/
• Children First: The Website of the National PTA
  http://www.pta.org/index.htm
• The National Academies
  http://www.nas.edu/
• The National Association of School Boards of Education
  http://www.nasbe.org/
• National Center for Education Statistics
  http://www.nces.ed.gov/index.html
• The National Council of Teachers of English
  http://www.ncte.org/
• National Education Association
  http://www.nea.org/
• National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development
  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
• United Federation of Teachers
  http://www.uft.org/