Web Resources

Academic Resources

• The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication (formerly ERIC/REC), Indiana University
  http://reading.indiana.edu
• Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University http://www.fcrr.org/
• National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
  http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/
• Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts, University of Texas ( Austin)
  http://www.texasreading.org/utcrla

Articles & Periodicals

• Arts & Letters Daily
  http://www.aldaily.com/
• "’Because of You!’, Inspired by Upcoming Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media Release Because of Winn-Dixie, Responds to NEA Reading at Risk Report,” Walden Media http://www.walden.com/web/teach/news/list/becauseofyou
• “Can NEA plan help literature?” By Bob Hoover, Sunday, November 13, 2005, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05317/605099.stm
• A Conversation With Dana Gioia, Seattle Pacific University Response
  http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/summer2k4/conversation2.html
• “Decline and Fall and Fall and Fall, In our minds and in our cars: Technology killed the 'literary' reader—again” by Paul Collins, The Village Voice
  http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0436,essay,56522,1.html
• “Decline in Reading of Literature and Books, Not a Decline in Reading,” Kairosnews Blog
  http://kairosnews.org/node/3876
• “Literature at Risk: The state of our reading habits” by Peter Wood, National Review Online
  http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/wood200407190842.asp
• “NEA's Reading at Risk Elicits Strong, Varied Responses,” by Nomia Schwartz, Bookselling this Week, American Booksellers Association
  http://news.bookweb.org/news/2716.html
• “NEA's Reading at Risk Redux” by Robert Gray, Bookselling this Week, American Booksellers Association
  http://news.bookweb.org/features/2905.html
• “NEA Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,” The Write News
  http://www.writenews.com/2004/070904_nea_reading_crisis.htm
• “A New Kind of Literacy” Read/WriteWeb Blog
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_new_kind_of_l.php
• “Publishers, NEA Join Forces To Address National Reading Crisis,” Association of American Publishers
  http://www.publishers.org/press/releases.cfm?PressReleaseArticleID=230
• "Reading at Risk from Library - um, I mean Internet," Grand Text Auto Blog
  http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2004/07/09/reading-at-risk-from-library-um-i-mean-internet/
• " Reading Between the Lines,” Critical Mass Blog
  http://www.erinoconnor.org/archives/2004/07/reading_between_1.html
• Reading Online: An Electronic Journal of the International Reading Association
  http://www.readingonline.org
• Reading Today Daily (A Blog of the International Reading Association)
  http://blog.reading.org
• “Rescuing Reading” by Larry Scholer, Campus Report Online, February 15, 2005
  http://www.campusreportonline.net/main/articles.php?id=302
• “Vision and Reading, ” excerpts from an article on Vision, Learning and Nutrition by Donald J. Getz, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, (The Journal of Applied Nutrition Volume 28, Winter, 1976), Optometrists Network
  http://www.children-special-needs.org/vision_therapy/esophoria_reading.html
• “Who Killed Literary Reading?” by Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education
  http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i46/46b01301.htm
• “Why is reading at risk?” by James Bowman, The New Criterion
  http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/sum04/bowman.htm

Commercial Sites

• Bibliomania
  http://www.bibliomania.com/
• BookCrossing
  http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Organizations

• All America Reads, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
  http://www.allamericareads.org/
• America Reads
  http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/index.html
• Answer Point, Central Rappahannock Regional Library
  http://www.answerpoint.org/reading_room/
• Book Adventure
  http://www.bookadventure.org
• Five College America Reads Program ( Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts)
  http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/americareads/
• Get Caught Reading
  http://www.getcaughtreading.org
• International Reading Association
  http://www.reading.org
• The Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org
• Just Read Families
  http://www.justreadfamilies.org
• Learning First Alliance, Reading Publications
  http://www.learningfirst.org/publications/reading/
• National Education Association, Read Across America
  http://www.nea.org/readacross/index.html
• National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read
  http://www.neabigread.org/
• National Institute for Literacy
  http://www.nifl.gov/
• National Reading Panel
  http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org
• Peninsula Reads (Hampton-Newport News, Virginia)
  http://www.peninsulareads.org/
• Read-Write-Think
  http://www.readwritethink.org
• Reader’s Circle: Book Club and Reading Directory
  http://www.readerscircle.org/
• Reading Across Rhode Island
  http://www.readingacrossri.org/
• Reading Connects ( UK)
  http://www.readingconnects.org.uk/
• Reading is Fundamental
  http://www.rif.org
• Reading Rainbow (PBS Kids)
  http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow
• Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers
  http://www.readingrockets.org
• Virginia Department of Education, Reading First
  http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Reading/readingfirst.html

Great On-line Reads

• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
  http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
• Bartleby (E-texts)
  http://www.bartleby.com/
• The Great Books Foundation
  http://www.greatbooks.org
• The Great Books (Access Foundation E-texts)
  http://www.anova.org/index.html
• Project Gutenberg (E-texts)
  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
  http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Buy Books

• “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” --Henry Ward Beecher, US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) (For more information about Beecher, see Debby Applegate’s new book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, published by Doubleday.
• Alibris (especially good for used and hard-to-find books)
  http://www.alibris.com/
• Abebooks
  http://www.abebooks.com/
• American Booksellers Associations (organization of independent neighborhood book stores)
  http://www.bookweb.org/
• Powell’s City of Books
  http://www.powells.com/