Posted on 12/26/13 at TeachThought.com

Turn on video, YouTube and TV captioning to help improve student literacy.

From LifeHacker.com

The mission of the ILA, formerly known as the International Reading Association, is "to empower educators, inspire students, and encourage leaders with the resources they need to make literacy accessible for all."

Free public domain audio books that have been recorded by volunteers.

Newsela is an English and Spanish reading comprehension tool. It provides authentic news, arts, health, money, law science, and sports content at different lexile (reading) levels that can be changed based on your need.

"We write news for students of English. We help students to learn and understand English." Provides news articles on the same topic in 3 - 4 reading levels.

PDF from Scholastic.com

"The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly."

"Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs. Click to open up to 4 sliders and move the [slider triangle] to set your choices."

Makes suggestions for what to read next based on what you just finished reading.

By Ruth Schoenbach, Jane Braunger, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Cindy Litman in the October 2003 issue of Phi Delta Kappan.

Koushik, Rashmi, "Creating Avid Readers across Content Areas: Explicit Reading Instruction in the ESL Classroom" (2011). AYMAT Individual Thesis/ SMAT IPP Collection. Paper 510.

Learn more about how the community and technical colleges in Washington State have joined together to help improve their students' reading comprehension through the use of the Reading Apprenticeship® (RA) framework developed by WestEd.

Official website for Reading Apprenticeship by WestEd, the organization that developed it.