This extensive guide (441pdf pages) is broken down into 13 chapters. Each chapter ends with appendices that support teaching and learning strategies for the primary classroom.

1. Improving Student Achievement in Reading
2. Effective Reading Instruction
3. Oral Language and Reading
4. Read-Alouds
5. Shared Reading
6. Guided Reading
7. Independent Reading
8. Reading Comprehension
9. Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Word Study
10. The Role of Writing in Reading Instruction
11. The Role of Technology in Reading Instruction
12. Assessment
13. Planning and Classroom Organization

A Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction, Grades 4 to 6:
Volume One, Junior Learner part 1
Volume One, Junior Learner part 2
Volume Two, Assessment
Volume Three, Planning and Classroom Management
Volume Four, Oral Language
Volume Five, Reading
Volume Six, Writing
Volume Seven, Media Literacy

 Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8.

• Literacy for Learning: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario 

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/literacy/panel/literacy.pdf
147 page pdf file
 

The Ontario Early Reading Strategy is intended to help children from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 3 improve their reading skills.

• Also available as a 17 page pdf brochure

A practical guide to improving boys' litearcy skills. - 61 page pdf file.

Top Teacher - Beth Newingham, featured by Scholastic shares reading and writing lessons, posters, blackline masters, weblinks, classroom management and teaching advice.

• My February Top Ten List: Resources and Lessons for Fiction Reading
  An excellent selection of reading lessons, strategies, BLMs and posters.

A ready to print collection of reading strategy graphic organizers sorted by Before Reading, During Reading, and After Reading strategies.

Reading and writing lesson plans listed by topic and grade. Lessons include blackline masters and weblinks,

• Lessons
• Web Resources
• Research Reading Blocks: Hints About Print - with online tutorial

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.

• The Strategies
• Design Your Classroom - ideas on how to set up an inviting reading program in your class. Be sure to check with administration and custodial staff before bringing in your household items. (e.g., lamps, couches)
• Downloads - mp3 and pdf files for each reading strategy
• Teacher Area - Use the left hand menu for each strategy for student interactives, Student videos, Teacher videos, Lessons, Book Lists, Web links with teaching ideas and lessons
• Kids- Get Into the Book - student need to sign-in to access interactive activities for each reading strategy

Lesson plans and graphic organizers

• Content Area Reading Strategies: Twenty Thinking Strategies Readers Use to Comprehend Non-Fiction
  • Before, During and After Reading reading strategies explained
• Instructional Activities for Reading and Writing

A collection of school-home printable reading activities for kindergarten, grades 1-3. 

Printable sheets to support at-home reading.

Explanation of literacies with lessons provided -

• Visual Literacy
• Historical Literacy
• Cultural Literacy
• Infomration Literacy
• Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
• Scientific Literacy
• Mathematical Literacy

Reading lesson plans with online resources, some for printing.

• Teacher Links
  You will have to have pop-ups accessible to access the resources.
• Glossary of Writing Terminology

Read an article on-line or print it for shared reading and class discussion. Then have the students complete the on-line quiz. Teacher's guides and more activities are listed.  There is a new news article posted every month. (American topics)

Click on 'Reading Rainbow' for lesson plans in pdf files of some of the books.

Book lists and quizzes for each title Gr. K-8.  You have to register first to access the resources and activities. Teachers need to set up their classes at the site first. Well worth the effort!

On-line stories using Macromedia Flash. Activities included. Themes- animals, colours, crocodiles, monkeys, teddy bears. More to come...

Use the left hand menu to access lesson plans.

Book and novel studies with lessons and on-line activities.

•  Focus on Topics of Reading Use the right hand margin to access printable lists and lesson plans
• Parent Resources - printable Brochures
• Using Informational Books for Read-Alouds
• Family Literacy and the School Community: A Partnership for Lifelong Learning 

Books listed by reading strategy: schema, sensory imagery, questioning, inferring, determining importance, synthesizing, fix-it up.

• Mosaic Listserve Teaching Tools: assessment, lesson plans, worksheets/reporting forms, staff development, posters and more...

Use the left menu to access lesson support and printable pages

• Comprehension

Links to readability tools

Before, during and after reading strategies.

Search by title, author, reading level.

SA collection of levelled book sites.

Explanation of the lexile scale.

• Lexile Book Search
• Lexile Calculator

Phonics posters ready to print.
 

A sample letter and reading cues to share with parents.

Books sorted by author, title, Reading Recovery, and Grade level available on-line and in pdf files.

Lessons and rubrics for the teaching of reading skills: decoding conventions, establishing comprehension, developing interpretations, integrating for synthesis, and critiquing for evaluation. Use the menu at the left of the screen to access lesson plans and printable rubrics.

• 98Toolkit - Printable training guide
• Archived Pages - Lessons

• The Graphs
• The SMOG Readability Formula

Answers have been supplied by Paul Kropp, Canada's leading authority on materials for reluctant readers. 

The world's most popular text-to-speech software - and it is still free.

Self test on devices included.

Collection of sites for students, parents and teachers. Lots of sites to sift through-- takes some time.

A guide that takes you thought how to analyze an essay.