The AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.

A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children. The publications, A Compact for Reading Guide and the School-Home Links Reading Kit, are designed to help Compact partners set reading goals, and provide lessons and activities that allow children to accomplish these goals.

CORE offers schools a full professional development model in reading instruction built on scientifically-based reading research. CORE equips teachers and school leaders with knowledge, skills and tools on reading instruction.

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence is a federally funded research and development program focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty. CREDE offers a wide range of multi-media products (interactive CD-ROMs, videos, online directories), print publications, and a useful website for practitioners, researchers, and parents. One area of focus is Language learning and academic achievement.
An important facet of CREDE’s work is the development of a pedagogy that has been proven to be effective in educating all students, especially at-risk students. The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy are:
* Teacher and Students Producing Together (Joint Productive Activity).
* Developing Language Across the Curriculum (Language Development).
* Making Meaning: Connecting School to Student’s Live (Contextualization).
* Teaching Complex Thinking (Cognitive Challenge).
* Teaching Trough Interactive Discussions (Instructional Conversation).

The Center for Early Literacy provides research, professional development, teaching materials and early intervention strategies to help schools meet the varying reading and writing needs and skills of K-2 children. It coordinates Reading Recovery program training and services in Maine and publishes the "Little Books for Early Readers" series.

The Emergent Literacy Project at the University of Idaho was designed to increase emergent literacy activities in Head Start classrooms and preschools. Emergent literacy includes activities in which young children participate as they become readers and writers. Emergent suggests something that is dynamic and becoming, not a specific point in time. Literacy refers to the interrelatedness of the language arts and includes reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

The National Literacy Strategy supports teachers, trainee teachers and others working to improve literacy in schools. This website makes available guidance, publications and resources from the National Literacy Strategy. It provides direct access to professional development materials as well as information about new initiatives to support improvements in literacy.