Content-Area Resources

The Internet Public Library

This site provides a wealth of resources categorized by content areas, including arts and humanities, business and economics, social sciences, and science and technology. For example, in the mathematics category, you will find links to biographies of women mathematicians, a brief history of algebra, math words, and more. The Internet Public Library also includes links to such resources as almanacs, dictionaries, writing guides, magazines, and youth resources. It even has audio and video files—helpful to struggling readers.

Content Literacy Information Consortium

Examine literacy related to a variety of content disciplines at this site. You will find links to lesson plans; student-centered Web sites; and instructional strategies in language arts, English, mathematics, science, and social studies compiled at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

Reading Resources

The International Reading Association

The International Reading Association sponsors programs that cover a wide range of reading-related topics, from early childhood literacy to the diagnosis of reading disabilities and the training of reading professionals. Abstracts and selected articles from its publications—including The Reading Teacher, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and Reading Research Quarterly—are available on its Web site.

Themed Reviews

Reviewers at Children's Literature read and critically review more than 3,000 books each year to help teachers, librarians, and parents make appropriate literary choices for children. Visit their page for book reviews in such categories as women scientists, Johnny Appleseed, famous African Americans, and space exploration.

News for Students and Educators

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication

This site provides reading research, news, lesson plans, Web resources, and a family information center.

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence

This site has a collection of research about language learning and academic achievement.

Teaching Secondary Language Minority Students

Read the research brief to learn four things teachers should do to support language development in secondary school learners; for example, how to help Tommy, a 7th grader who has not been in school since he completed 5th grade in his native country.

CNN Student News

Teachers looking for newspaper resources to use in the classroom should visit this site, where they will find stories written by CNN journalists that are appropriate in vocabulary and content for middle and high school students. Each story is accompanied by a lesson plan, a discussion topic, or an activity. Audio files are also available from www.cnn.com (search for "audio files").

Resources from Schools

Meeting the Secondary Reading Challenge: Interdisciplinary Reading in the Content Areas

Learn about reading strategies that assist content-area reading, including vocabulary building, graphic organizers, journals, note-taking, and activities for before and after reading. Find out how semantic mapping and photographed vocabulary strategies, for example, can help students retain information.

The Schools of California Online Resources for Education

This site provides a teacher activity bank on its Language Arts CyberGuides with information about graphic organizers, literature, rubrics, and types of journals (such as metacognitive, learning log, double-entry, and reflective). In the Real World Mathematics section, find out about "The unTruth About Statistics" and "Mathematics and Elections."