Webliography

1.  http://www.interventioncentral.org/   (Intervention Central)
This site provides free resources to help struggling students.  It provides a Behavior Report Card maker, math worksheets, reading fluency passages, word lists, and a list of the latest interventions to use in the classroom.

2.  http://www.rti4success.org/   (National Center on Response to Intervention)
This site tells you what you need to know about RtI.  It provides an easy to follow graphic on screening, progress monitoring, and the multi-level prevention system.  There are webinar series and on-line chats.  It also tells you how to implement RtI.

3.  http://www.studentprogress.org/   (National Center on Student Progress Monitoring)
This is a technical assistance site to monitor student progress and provide implementation support.  This site offers online training and webinars in various areas on special ed., math, AYP, RtI, and progressive monitoring in math and reading.

4.  http://www.fcrr.org/   (Florida Center for Reading Research)
This is a reading site that provides research, reading assessments, and reading instruction.  It also provides technical assistance for improving literacy for PreK-12.  There are student-centered activities, projects, and instructional materials.

5.  http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/hearing.html   (What Teachers Need to Know about Sensory Impairment)
This site provides strategies for teaching deaf students.  It has easy to read lists to adi all teachers of these students.  There are general strategies to aid in reading, writing, what to avoid, discussions.  Testing strategies are also listed.

6.  http://www.tqsource.org/  (National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality)
This is a resource for strengthening teacher quality.  It provides technical assistance, webcasts, lists of specific events.  This site is also designed to help at-risk schools.

7.  http://www.nrcld.org/   (National Research Center on Learning Disabilities)
This is a site for teachers, psychologists, administrators, and parents.  It provides answers to questions and gives info on LD, RtI, how-to topics.

8. http://add.about.com/   (ADD/ADHD site)
This is a parent-friendly site that defines ADD/ADHD and provides symptons, how children are diagnosed, and various treatments. 

9.  http://www.adhdcarecenter.com/   (ADHD Care Center)
A site that discusses the symptoms of ADHD.

10.  www.EverydayHealth.com/ADHD   (Everyday Health)
This site gives tips on correct foods/diets for children/students with ADHD.  It also gives some advice for traveling with children with ADHD.

11.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuals_with_Disabilities_Education_Act   (IDEA)
This site provides a definition for the Individuals with Disabilities Act.  Here one can also read the provisions of the act and find out who is eligible.  IEPs (Individual Educational Plans), low performing students, attention to problems of minority populations, funding, and unrealistic goals are all discussed.

12.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wik/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act    (No Child Left Behind Act)
This site defines the law; provides updates on the act/the law; the effects on teachers, schools, and districts; the problems with state tests; effects on the gifted and talented and students with disabilities; explains the least restrictive environment and early interventions; discusses how to discipline a child with a disability; discusses amendments of the act and provides lists/explanations of current Supreme Court cases.

13.  http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/strategies.shtml   (Center for Research on Learning)
Great site that provides lists of learning strategies to use in math, reading, writing, studying and remembering information, improving assignment and test performance, interacting with others, and self-motivation.

14.  www.ehow.com/effective-teaching-strategies-asperger_s-students.html  (Teaching Strategies for Students with Aspergers)
This site describes the challenges for the student and gives strategies for the teacher to use.  It offers related articles/videos on Aspergers, the symptoms, some assistive technology, and use of visual aids.

15.  www.ehow.com/how_8097746_tech-students-severe-behavior-problems.html  (Teaching Students with Severe Behavioral Problems)
This site states and discusses the top five strategies to use in your classroom for a student with behavioral problems.

16.  www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/motor.html  (Strategies for Teaching Students With Motor/Orthopedic Impairments)
Strategies given for the teacher to use for students with epilepsy, cerebal palsy, autism.  General strategies offered, along with adaptations for the classroom, test-taking strategies, wheelchair accessibility/safety in all areas.

17.  http://www.as.wvu.edu/?~scidis/sitemap.html  (Disabilities, Teaching, Strategies, and Resources)
This is a collection of over 800 teaching strategies to help the teacher of students with various disabilities.  It has a list of accommodations, organizations, resources, a list of books and videos.

18.  http://buildingrti.utexas.org/  (Building RtI Capacity)
This site provides a section for teachers and one for parents.  It discusses RtI in the middle school, lists effective instructional practices, effective collabortion, differentiated instruction.

19.  http://state.rti4sucess.org/  (RtI State Database)
State database providing various resources on topics related to RtI, policies, training, and tools per each state (Early Intervention, screening, team building, cultural diversity).

20.  http://www.ideapartnership.org/  (IDEA Partnership)
Collaborative work of 50+ state and local organizations to improve the educational services of all students with disabilities.  Provides links to ASD, the Common Core Standards, RtI, NCLB, IDEA, monthly newsletters, and webinars.

21.  http://www.onlinestory.net/  (Online Stories)
This is a wonderful website that has actors/famous people) reading various children's books aloud.  Students are able to follow along as the words are also posted on the screen as the story is read.  This would help struggling readers.  The site also provides activites for the students.

22.  http://www.brainpopjr.com/ and http://www.brainpop.com/  (Brainpop)
This is an educational site that my third grade team uses almost daily in introducing new content and in reviewing something already taught.  It appeals to children by using a cartooned robot and little girl/boy to explain the subject matter.  It also offers an easy and a hard test.  This site can also present the information in other languages.