How to use this site

This site is based on the notion that literacy teachers should create web sites that reinforce the instructional approaches they use in their classrooms. Common instructional approaches include the following:

• Basal/skills-based approaches
• Process-writing approaches
• Literature-based approaches
• Unit-based approaches
• Language Experience Approaches (LEA)

This site encourages the following steps for designing or revising your classroom web site:

1. Identify the instructional approach(es) you use in your literacy program
2. Select web site features that reinforce your instructional approaches
3. Identify web development software/host that you can use to create your web site
4. Create & launch your web site
5. Watch your literacy program blossom--send us your url so we can see all of the wonderful ways you are using your web site to support your literacy program