http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/Literacy.htm

http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-3/oral.htm 
Oral Language Development across the Curriculum, K-12. ERIC Digest

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/383 
Young Children's Oral Language Development

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/reading/81160 
Oral Language and its Contribution to Reading Development

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/content/oral  
Oral Language Development for Beginners

http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/digests/d107.html 
Oral Language Development across the Curriculum, K-12

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/spring2003/biemiller.html 
Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/trainingopps/training/tutor_17.html   
Literacy Training: Oral Language Development

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/languagearts/elementary/olang2
Language Arts: Elementary Resources: Oral Language Development Continuum

http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Young_Childrens_Oral/
Young Children’s Oral Language Development

http://www.wiu.edu/itlc/ws/ws1/litfound_2.php
Practices Promoting Language Development

http://www.bnkst.edu/literacyguide/back.html
Background Knowledge: Making Connections Between New and Known Information

http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_backknowledge.html
Article on Background Knowledge

http://www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles/MC_Background_Info.htm
Meaning Skills: Background Knowledge

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/spring06/willingham.htm
How Knowledge Helps: It Speeds and Strengthens Reading Comprehension, Learning—and Thinking

http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreading35/session5/sec4p3.html
Develop Background Knowledge

http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/userfiles/file/background_info_visual.pdf
Example of a graphic organizer to build background knowledge

http://www.adlit.org/article/19865
Adolescent Literacy (grades 4-12) Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/20827
How to Connect Students' Background Knowledge to Content in the ELL Classroom

http://www.rif.org/educators/articles/background_knowledge.mspx
Building Children's Background Knowledge and Thinking Skills

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods/special-education/3774.html
Primed Background Knowledge

http://www.esl4kids.net/phonics.html
Games, chants, songs etc.

http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/positions_phonemic.html
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading

http://www.songsforteaching.com/phonemicawareness.htm
Songs That Build Phonological Awareness (Including Phonemic Awareness) Phonics

http://www.time4learning.com/readingpyramid/awareness.htm
Phonemic Awareness - Pre Reading Skills

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/phoemic.p.k12.4.html
Phonemic Awareness: An Important Early Step in Learning To Read

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=120
Phoneme Isolation: Building Phonemic Awareness

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/explore/phonemic.html
Phonemic Awareness Instruction

http://reading.uoregon.edu/pa/pa_what.php
What is Phonemic Awareness?

http://www.genkienglish.net/phonics.htm
Interactive website for students

http://www.mes-english.com/phonics.php
Free printables for teachers of young learners

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/kplus_phonics.htm
Phonics-sounds included

http://www.gamequarium.com/phonics28.html
Phonics games

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/
Learn to Read: Free Phonics games, worksheets and flashcards

http://www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm
A Gold Mine of Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Worksheets

http://www.phonics.com/
Free on-line Reading Assessment

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm
Interactive Phonics and Word Study

http://www.starfall.com/
Where children have fun learning to read

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/units/fluency.htm
Improving Fluency in Young Readers

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1fluency.html
Fluency instruction

http://readingserver.edb.utexas.edu/downloads/primary/guides/Fluency_Presentation.PDF
Reading Fluency

http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/fluency
Target the problem! Fluency

http://www.time4learning.com/readingpyramid/fluency.htm
Fluency & Learning to Read - Reading Fluency

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/compre.htm
Reading Comprehension topics

http://www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles/MC_Text_Comprehension.htm
Silent Reading Comprehension Ultimate Goal of Reading Instruction

http://www.readingrockets.org/
Topics on comprehension

http://edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension.htm
Daily reading comprehension themes

http://education.jlab.org/reading/index.html
Reading comprehension passages

http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/index.asp
Reading comprehension resources

http://www.funbrain.com/spell/
On-line interactive spelling games

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling

http://www.primarygames.com/see-n-spell/see-n-spell.htm
Games for primary

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/units/spelling.htm
Fun with spelling!

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/spellingwds040299.html
activities

http://edhelper.com/writing.htm
Weekly writing prompts

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Suggested resources

http://www.nwp.org/
National Writing Project

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/
Ideas, resources

http://tengrrl.com/tens/017.shtml
Resources

http://www.proteacher.com/070037.shtml
Lesson plans for elementary school teachers

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/writing/index.html
Lesson plans