LITERACY+PORTAL

= Find links to all sorts of literacy resources below! =

= [|A Vision for Literacy in North Carolina] = Literacy development is an ongoing process, and it requires just as much attention for adolescents as it does for beginning readers. In today’s fast-paced world, literacy demands are expanding, and they include more reading and writing tasks than at any other time in history. Adolescents need high levels of literacy to understand the vast amount of information available to them, and to fuel their imaginations as they help create the world of the future.

=[|Common Core State Standards for Literacy]= The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (“the Standards”) are the culmination of an extended, broad-based effort to fulfill the charge issued by the states to create the next generation of K–12 standards in order to help ensure that all students are college and career ready in literacy no later than the end of high school.

[|ACT: College & Career Readiness]
The College Readiness Standards serve as a direct link between what students have learned and what they are ready to learn next. The suggested learning experiences, in turn, provide links between the Standards in one score range and those in the next higher score range. The ideas for progressing to the next score range demonstrate ways that information learned from standardized test results can be used to inform classroom instruction.

[|Lexile]
Lexile measures help a reader find books and articles at an appropriate level of difficulty (visit [|Find a Book] ), and determine how well that reader will likely comprehend a text. You also can use Lexile measures to monitor a reader's growth in reading ability over time.

[|Read / Write / Think]
Provides educators, parents, and after school professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

[|Wordle]
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

[|All About Adolescent Literacy]
AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of [|WETA], the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

[|The Savvy Teacher's Guide: Reading Interventions That Work]
The Savvy Teacher’s Guide: Reading Interventions That Work, [is] for classroom instructors who need to have a range of reading interventions available for students with diverse learning needs.

[|The NY Times Learning Network]
The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on [|New York Times] content. Teachers can use or adapt our [|lessons] across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our [|Opinion questions], take our [|News Quizzes,] learn the [|Word of the Day,] try our [|Test Yourself questions,] complete a [|Fill-In] or read our [|Poetry Pairings.]