We’ve included a list of related web sites, print resources, and articles of interest which you might find useful, including information about literacy organizations, tutoring tips and articles about teaching reading.

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Tutoring Support

• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literacy Site
  A website for teaching ideas using children's books.
• LD Online
  Basic information on learning disabilities
• Literacy Connections
  Resources for reading teachers and literacy volunteers
• Sight and High Frequency Words
  Provides word lists and other support for reading aquisition.
• Reading Partners Tutoring Program
  Tutor training materials from the University of Delaware
• Reading Rockets
  Reading comprehension and language arts teaching strategies for kids.

Literacy Advocacy Organizations

• First Book
  An organization that provides new books to low-income children.
• National Institute for Literacy
  The federal agency that provides leadership on literacy issues.
• Reach Out and Read
  A national organization that promotes early literacy by making books a routine part of pediatric care.
• Reading is Fundamental
  The largest family literacy organization; supplies books to children who need them most.

Children's Literature

• The Children's Literature Web Guide
  A listing of websites pertaining to books for Children and Young Adults. Useful for students, professionals, parents and teachers
• Children's Poetry Archive
  A searchable database of children's poetry. Searchable by theme, title and poet
• ISSA Reading Corner
  Provides access to literature in 26 different languages
• San Francisco Public Library - Kids
  Provides reading lists, including lists of multicultural literature; literacy activities

Print Resources

All book titles link to a Google search by its ISBN.

• Children's Fiction Sourcebook: A Survey of Children's Books for 6–13 Year Olds by Margaret Hobson and Jennifer Madden (2nd edition: May 1995, Scolar Press, ISBN: 1859280838).
• Choosing Books for Children: A Commonsense Guide by Bettsy Hearne (1990, Delacorte, ISBN: 0385300840).
• Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K–8, edited by Rudine Sims Bishop and the Muliticultural Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (1994, ISBN: 0814125433).
• Our Family, Our Friends, Our World by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (1992, Libraries Unlimited Inc., ISBN: 0835230252).

Articles of Interest

• What's Jewish About Justice?
  Remarks presented by Rabbi David Rosenn, Executive Director of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps at the 2000 Hillel B'nai B'rith Spitzer Forum on Public Policy
• One-on-One Learning in Public School by Leonard Fein
• The Challenge of Repairing the World: A Jewish Perspective on Volunteering by Leonard Fein

Public Education

• EdSource
A not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization that provides information and analysis of California's public school system.
• STAR Public School Test Results