Web Sites for Parents

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ABC Teach - Colorful, easy-to-browse website. Useful and creative materials and ideas www.abcteach.com

Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents - Contains a searchable database of "more than 6,000 in-print books" that deserve to be read by Spanish-speaking children (or those who wish to learn Spanish). Headings and descriptions are bilingual. Updated weekly by California State University, San Marcos. www.csusm.edu/csb/intro_eng.html

Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html

Children's Book Council . CBC online contains links for teachers, parents, and authors to encourage children to read. Includes links to authors. www.cbcbooks.org

Coretta Scott King Award. The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of the ALA 's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). The award honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. www.ala.org

Enchanted Learning - Offers background information and free printable materials and pictures on a variety of topics. www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Established in 1956 by the International Board on Books for Young People. Currently awarded every two years to one author and one illustrator in recognition of his or her entire body of work. www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ibby.html

International Reading Association - professional organization for teachers offering wonderful resources to parents www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices.html

Jim Trelease. Trelease is a well known expert on reading aloud to children. Also offers some unusual links (parenting, publishers, author sites, "kid-safe" sites) www.trelease-on-reading.com

Library in the Sky - Contains over 1,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet. www.nwrel.org/sky

National Council of Teachers of English - professional organization for teachers offering wonderful resources to parents www.ncte.org/parents

National Association for the Education of Young Children - professional organization for teachers offering many resources to parents www.naeyc.org/families

National Reading Panel - committee organized by a charge of the federal government responsible for pulling together a body of research on reading that is used to make decisions regarding reading instruction www.nationalreadingpanel.org

National Institute of Child Health and Development www.nichd.nih.gov/

National Institute for Literacy www.nifl.gov/

Newbery Medal. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Tips for Parents on Reading document www.nwrac.org/pub/tipsforparents.pdf

Reading is Fundamental www.rif.org/parents/

Reading Rockets - provides information for both parents and teachers. Operated by WETA, a PBS station in Maryland. www.readingrockets.org

U.S. Dept of Education - resources especially for parents www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml?src=fp

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