AboutSpecialEd.com

http://specialed.about.com/od/literacy/

About Special Education.com is a wonderful resource for literacy support and articles that will benefit teachers and parents of struggling readers. This site is comprehensive in scope and provides an easily navigated site with links to many valuable literacy resources.

After Hours for Teens

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/arttnah/exec/syn...

Games to play and more fun ideas for after school!

BrainWaves

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artbw/exec/syndi...

The ClassBrain Newsletter

Buster's Bookshelf

http://www.bustersbookshelf.com/strategies.htm

This list might be useful for teachers and parents to use to discuss specific classroom tasks to support struggling readers. This list was published in Regie Routman's latest book called Reading Essentials The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well (Heinemann, 2003). This site also offers links to many useful articles and resources to access ideas for implementing research-based strategies to teach reluctant readers.

Center on English Learning and Achievement: Participating in Classroom Dialogue Helps Struggling Readers

http://cela.albany.edu/newslet/spring01/struggling...

This article is a wonderful resource outlining specific strategies to help struggling readers focusing on classroom environment, successful interventions and student agency. There are links throughout this article that offer information that will enhance and support strategies and interventions presented in the article.

Closing the Gap

http://www.closingthegap.com/

Budd and Dolores Hagen, the founders of Closing The Gap, would like to welcome you to this Web Site. It is through their personal experiences raising a deaf child that Closing The Gap was created in 1983. Since that time Budd and Dolores have enjoyed sharing their experiences and insights with parents and professionals around the world.
Published six times a year, the Closing The Gap newspaper highlights hardware and software products appropriate for people with special needs, and explains how this technology is being implemented in education, rehabilitation, and vocational settings around the world.

Council for Exceptional Children

http://www.cec.sped.org/

The Council for Exceptional Children is a national organization that is at the forefront of improving education for students with special needs. Much wonderful information for parents here!

Defining Documents of the United States

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/arttnst/exec/syn...

Want to know what your government is really about?

Family Life

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artfl/exec/syndi...

Fun for the family

Freedom Files

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Some ways to show that you are proud to be an American!

Iowa State Department of Education

http://state.ia.us/educate/

See what is going on in education in our state. Rules, standards and legislation can be explored here.

Money Matters for Parents and Teachers

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artmm/exec/syndi...

Another great site from ClassBrain

Movies in the Classroom

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artmov/exec/synd...

This site has great movie reviews and places to get your favorite movie posters, too!

NETS for Students

http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_profiles.html

The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States. The NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use

New Horizons for Learning

http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/inclusion/teach...

The New Horizons for Learning site has an article that compares and contrast the six premier research based programs developed to help struggling readers. This article offers much insight and a fresh, informative perspective on strategies successful in helping struggling readers succeed in the academic environment.

Practical Money Skills by Visa

http://practicalmoneyskills.com/index.php

This is a great website with some very useful information. There are free lessons on banking, budgeting and use of credit, as well as much information that you will use for the rest of your life!

Random Acts of Kindness

http://www.actsofkindness.org/

This is an uplifting website. One of my favorites!

Reading Rockets

http://www.readingrockets.org/lp.php?SID=2

Reading Rockets is an easy to navigate site devoted to helping kids who struggle with reading. This site offers practical tips for teachers, parents and students to help make reading enjoyable for reluctant readers. Links to support for home, school and community are available on this page.

RiverDeep Special Needs Universal Access Designs

http://www.riverdeep.net/special_needs/special_nee...

Riverdeep recognizes and honors the fact that each child is a unique learner. We continue our commitment to special needs education to include, challenge, and engage all children. Flexible design features within the Edmark line of products make them especially effective for students with unique needs and learning differences.
Flexible design features make Edmark products effective for students with unique needs and learning differences.

School Matters

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artsm/exec/syndi...

A good place to sort out school related concerns

School Matters for Teens

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/arttnsm/exec/syn...

Students will find much useful advice and information here!

SpecialEd.Net

http://www.specialed.net

This site offers some free educational software downloads that you can use at home to practice and improve many skills. Check it out!

Teaching Tools from ClassBrain

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/arttt/exec/syndi...

Understand why your teachers do what they do!

The ClassBrain Reading Room for Parents and Teachers

http://www.classbrain.com/cgi-bin/artrr/exec/syndi...

What a wonderfully fun place to visit!