WETA Education Websites: Reading Rockets, AdLit.org, LD Online and Colorin Colorado
WETA is a public television and classical music station serving the Washington D.C. area, but it also has a tradition of education and service where the projects of ReadingRockets.org, AdLit.org, LDOnline.org, and ColorinColorado.org. All of these websites are excellent resources for parents and teachers.
ReadingRockets.org brings research-based strategies to help teach reading, help struggling readers, a comprehensive A-Z selection of reading topics, and children's books and authors. The Classroom Strategies library includes strategies for phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and writing with instructions how to use the strategy, examples, templates, supporting research, and more.
AdLit.org is a resource for parents and teachers for with students in grades 4-12. This resource focuses on how best to teach reading to struggling adolescent readers especially in content areas where students need to learn how to make sense of what they read in content subjects. AdLit.org provides research-based Hot Topics, Classroom Strategies, Books & Authors, and much more.
LDOnline.org is an educator's guide about learning disabilities and ADHD. In addition to LD and ADHD basic information, this resource also includes a glossary of terminology, an in depth list of LD Topics such as Math & Dyscalculia.
ColorinColorado.org is a bilingual site for teachers and families of students of English Language Learners. Like the other resource projects from WETA, Colorin Colorado provides free research-based information, activities, and advice for parents, educators, and communities. It even highlights Pura Belpre, the first Puerto Rican librarian to be hired by the New York Public Library. The American Library Association (ALA) has a children's book award in her honor, the Pura Belpre Award. This year celebrates the 20th Anniversary for this award!
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