Websites
NEW ! 
The
Literacy Web
Classroom literacy resources for all grade levels and content areas from the University of Conneticut.
NEW ! Literacy
Matters
Classroom resources for adolescent literature and content literacy.
A great resource! This free electronic journal of K-12 practice and research, published by the International Reading Association.
A free website offering standards-based lesson plans and online resources that integrate Internet content meaningfully into K-12 reading and language arts instruction.
North West Regional Education Laboratory
Offers student activities in content area reading, lesson plans for teachers, and many links to teacher/student/parent resources. Type in key word "content area reading."
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign -Collaborative Lesson Archives-
The Collaborative Lesson Archive (CLA) is intended to be a forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas. The CLA is truly a World Wide Web project. The quantity and quality of the content is entirely dependent on the internet community. Includes many content area reading ideas/lessons.
Promote content area reading by finding supplementary reading material for your students..
An excellent resource for content area lessons, online professional development, PBS-TV for teachers, and technology and teaching.
A premire site for primary sources in any content area. AwesomeStories is a guide to fascinating links scanned on-line by the world's great institutions: The Library of Congress, National Archives, the British Museum, the BNF in Paris, and hundreds of universities, libraries, historical societies and museums world-wide.
Stories behind famous events, legends, people, heroes and movies will help you to examine primary source material yourself. After weighing the available evidence, you and your STUDENTS can reach your own conclusions.
National Institute for Literacy
Provides links to many articles/data bases.
National Clearinghouse for English Language
Acquisition and Language Instruction Education Programs
Excellent. Provides links to data bases, teaching materials, student activiites and profesional development for ESL professionals.
Provides teacher professional development resesousces in every content area; includes video conferencing opportunities.
Reading Comprehension Connection
Practice tests for homonyms, and context vocabulary.
The Blackout Syndrome-Online Science Mysteries for Students.
It is Access Excellence's belief that a well-written mystery, with its intriguing characters, puzzles of logic and leaps of intuition, is a natural way to teach science. We hope that this fictional online story will help biology students around the world to get inspired by the real mysteries awaiting them beyond the classroom.
Access Excellence of the National Health Museum
A a national science education program that provides high school biology and life sciences teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
The updated version of Gardener's theory.
Act Practice Tests in Content Areas
Great to assign students for guided practice or extra credit.