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Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin, Volume 5, Number 1: Strengthening Literacy Programs and Instruction (2010) This issue of the Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin focuses on literacy, specifically on how states can strengthen their literacy programs or plans and provide effective professional development and technical assistance for high-need districts in their efforts to implement quality literacy instruction.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Literacy Resources (2008) This online database provides access to high-quality literacy resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Training Toolkit: Building Quality Enrichment Activities (2008) This online toolkit provides resources for developing fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities for afterschool and expanded learning programs. The toolkit includes promising practices and sample lessons in the arts, literacy, math, science, technology, and homework help.

Price: $0 Afterschool Training Toolkit DVD: Short Videos of Promising Practices in Afterschool (2008) Brief videos illustrate promising teaching techniques in six key areas: the arts, homework, literacy, math, science, and technology. Use these free videos with afterschool staff to explore new ways to embed academics in fun afterschool activities.

Making Consistent Decisions about Accommodations for English Language Learners: Research Summit Proceedings (2008) In March 2009, researchers and practitioners convened in Austin, Texas, for a research summit on linguistic accommodations in instruction and on assessments for English language learners (ELLs). This online publication describes the proceedings and outcomes of the summit.

Rapid Response: Alignment of University Curricula for Preservice Teachers With Scientifically Based Reading Research (2008) This resource was produced in response to a request: "What are state departments of education (SDE) doing to ensure that their universities are aligning their curricula with scientifically based reading research (SBRR) resources and practices with regard to teaching preservice teachers reading courses? This includes content, instruction, and books."

Reading Assessment Database for Grades PreK–3 (2006) This database, a complementary tool to the Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework, enables reading teachers to search for preK–3 reading assessments that test the framework's 14 reading skills.

Price: $15 Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources (2000) This publication reviews the scholarly literature to determine (a) current theoretical perspectives and research findings on building reading proficiency at the secondary level and (b) the implications of these findings for classroom instruction.

Price: $15 Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework (2000) This book provides a concise summary of the research findings related to how children learn to read. A graphical representation of the framework is provided to familiarize teachers with the cognitive elements that research has shown to be essential in learning to read.