Resources
The What Works Clearinghouse, operated by the Institute of Education Sciences, provides researchers and educators with reports pertaining to the quantity and quality of evidence supporting particular practices, programs, and procedures used in education, including literacy.
Self-regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is an evidence-based instructional framework for teaching writing. This web site offers (with a fee) instructional videos and materials for teaching multiple genres using SRSD.
Self-regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is an evidence-based instructional framework for teaching writing. This web site offers instructional videos and materials for teaching multiple genres using SRSD.
Reading Rockets is dedicated to helping families and educators understand reading development, instruction, and disabilities.
Coh-Metrix is an online tool for analyzing linguistic features of corrected writing samples and yields over 100 indices of text features including lexical sophistication, cohesion and structure, and syntactic complexity.
The NIH has developed a battery of brief cognitive measures for individuals 3 years and older, many of which address oral language, reading, memory, and executive functioning.
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), developed by the Center on Teaching & Learning at the University of Oregon, is a set of curriculum-based fluency measures for benchmark and progress monitoring purposes in the areas of phonological awareness, alphabetics and phonics, and oral reading fluency and text comprehension.
Phinder is a phonics resource created by Dr. Devin Kearns to assist educators with locating words that fit any particular phoneme or grapheme pattern to be taught.
Grammar Slammer is a topical resource for educators who want to learn more about the intricacies of grammar and writing mechanics such as punctuation and capitalization.
The Interactive Statistical Calculations web site lists links to hundreds of web-based calculators for statistics as well as downloadable software, guides, and tutorials as a resource for college students and researchers.
