Appendix B: Resources for Tutoring Programs

America Goes Back to School, A Place for Families and the Community, Partners' Activity Guide, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1998. (Call 1-800-USA-LEARN or download from http://www.ed.gov/Family/agbts/.)

Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading, R.C. Anderson, E.H. Hiebert, J.A. Scott, and I.A.G. Wilkinson, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1985.

Becoming a Nation of Readers: What Parents Can Do, Marilyn R. Binkley, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, March 1988.

Becoming Literate, The Construction of Inner Control, Marie M. Clay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1991.

A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator's Guide to the Human Brain, Robert Sylvester, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, 1995.

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs, Revised Edition, Sue Bredekamp and Carol Copple, Editors, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1997.

Emerging Literacy: Young Children Learn to Read and Write, Dorothy S. Strickland and Lesley Mandel Morrow, Editors, International Reading Association, Newark, DE, 1989.

Family Literacy, Directions in Research and Implications for Practice, L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord, Editors, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1996.

The First R, Every Child's Right to Read, Michael F. Graves, Paul Van Den Broek, and Barbara M. Taylor, Editors, International Reading Association, Newark, DE and Teacher's College Press, NY, 1996.

Generation to Generation: Realizing the Promise of Family Literacy, Jack. A. Brizius and Susan A. Foster, sponsored by the National Center for Family Literacy, High Scope Press, Ypsilanti, MI, 1993.

Help America Read: A Handbook for Volunteers and Help America Read: Coordinator's Guide, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1997.

Innovations in Parent and Family Involvement, J. William Rioux and Nancy Berla, Eye on Education, Princeton Junction, NY, 1993.

Just Add Kids, A Resource Directory of Learning Partners, Reading Sites, and Other Literacy Organizations that Serve Children and Their Families, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1996.(Download from http://www.ed.gov/Family/Just Add Kids/ or call 1-800-USA-LEARN.)

Learning to Read, Reading to Learn, The National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators, University of Oregon, for the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1996.

Literacy's Beginnings, Supporting Young Readers and Writers, 2nd Ed., Lea M. McGee and Donald J. Richgels, Allyn and Bacon, NY, 1996.

The Master Tutor, A Guidebook for More Effective Tutoring, Ross B. MacDonald, Ph.D., The Cambridge Stratford Study Skills Institute, Williamsville, NY, 1994.

The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, Eden Ross Lipson, Editor, The New York Times, NY, 1991.

Parent's Guide to Literacy for the 21st Century, Janie Hydrick, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL 1996.

Raising a Reader, Make Your Child a Reader for Life, Paul Kropp, Doubleday, NY, 1996.

Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1996. (Call 1-800-USA-LEARN or download from http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ReachFam/.)

The Read Aloud Handbook, 4th ed., Jim Trelease, Penguin, NY, 1995.

Reading Recovery, A Guidebook for Teachers in Training, Marie M. Clay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1993.

Ready*Set*Read for Caregivers and Ready*Set*Read for Families, the Corporation for National Service, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1997. (Call 1-800-USA-LEARN, or download the Family and Caregivers publications from the America Reads Challenge web site, http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/.)

READ*WRITE*NOW*! Partners Tutoring Program, Activities for Reading and Writing Fun and Play on Paper, the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1996. (Call 1-800-USA- LEARN, or download from http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/.)

The RIF Guide to Encouraging Young Readers, Ruth Graves, Editor, Doubleday, NY, 1987.

Standards for the English Language Arts, International Reading Association, Newark, DE and National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL, 1996.

State of the Art, Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning to Read, Anne P. Sweet, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1993. (Download from http://www.ed.gov/pubs/StateArt/Read or order from U.S. Department of Education, OERI Education Information, 555 New Hersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20208-5641).

Strong Families, Strong Schools, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1994. (Download from http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/ or call 1-800-USA-LEARN.)

A Survey of Family Literacy in the United States, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Diane H. Tracey, Caterina Marcone Maxwell, Eds., International Reading Association, Newark, DE, 1995.

Teaching Reading, A Balanced Comprehensive Approach to Teaching Reading in Pre-kindergarten Through Grade Three, Reading Program Advisory, California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA, 1996. (Call 1-800-995-4099 or download from http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/teachrd.html).

Tips on Tutoring: A Guide for Committed Tutors, Diane A. Wilbur, I Have a Dream Foundation, New York, NY, 1994 (reprinted 1997 by the Center for School Success at the Southern Regional Council).

The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox, Beth Ann Herrman, Editor, International Reading Association, Newark, DE, 1994.

What We Know About Reading Teaching and Learning, Council for Educational Development and Research, Washington, DC, 1997.

Bank Street College: http://www.bnkst.edu/americareads/americareads.html

America Reads Challenge: http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/

Children's Literature Web Guide: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

KidLit: http://www.mgfx.com/kidlit/

Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA): http://www.amihome.com/rrca/rrcna.htm

Urban/Minority Families: http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families

Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/childlit.html

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Rolling Readers USA
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