Archived Information

The Portal Window

Similar to a ship's window, this web site enables you to peer out from your private world of teaching, parenting, coaching, or literacy center management. There's an ocean of literacy information out there - over 35 million items on the Internet search engines related to illiteracy, literacy, ESL, dyslexia, phonics, and spelling reform that you could view and analyze - although not in your lifetime.

Therefore we've selected from that storehouse, specific items that can lead you to further exploration. As this site continues to fill up with pointers and links to the larger world out there, you'll be em- powered to move further in your study of literacy-related topics.

On this site we've collected scholarly articles as well as practical "how-to" case studies. There are recordings, videos, conceptual debates, sources for software packages, links to classroom materials, lists of funding sources, professional organizations, statistical studies, and examples of innovative initiatives.

A high percentage of our visitors get here by using one or another of the common search engines. Yahoo/Overture, Google, and MSN Search are used most frequently. We know the audience is vast because the Nielson company and other rating companies keep counts on the searching traffic. You have many intellectual partners if you're concerned about literacy. The following topic areas reveal how many people did searches in June of 2007 in these subject areas: