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Storytelling Resources
Mentoring, Tutoring, and Community Programs
Government Resources
Teaching Creative Writing
Spoken Word Poetry
Publishers
Reading Lists
Reading Tips for Parents
Author Web Sites

Adult and Family Literacy
- Harvard Family Research Project: The Family Involvement Storybook Corner
- Literacy Partners
- National Center for Family Literacy
- National Center on Adult Literacy
- Read to Me

Teaching Resources
- Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- National Association for Bilingual Education
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- National Education Association, Read Across America
- National Head Start Association (NHSA)
- New Visions for Public Schools
- Lincoln Center Institute

Literacy Activities for Kids
- Maya & Miguel
- PBS Kids
- Reading is Fundamental
- Reading Matters
- Reading Pathfinder
- Reading Rockets

Literacy Organizations
- American Library Association
- Children's Literacy Initiative
- International Reading Association (IRA)
- Literacy Assistance Center, New York City
- Literacy, Inc.
- Literacy Matters
- Reach Out and Read
- Teachers & Writers Collaborative
- Women Expanding/Literacy Education Action Resource Network

Libraries
- Brooklyn Public Library
(for kids / for teens)
- New York Public Library (serving the Bronx and Staten Island)
(for kids / teens)
- Queens Library
(for kids / teens)

Literary Publications, Ezines, and Blogs
- New York Review of Books
- One-Story
- Open City
- Poets & Writers
- Void Magazine

Literary Venues
- Bowery Poetry Club
- KGB Bar
- Symphony Space
- Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Literary Organizations
- Academy of American Poets (AAP)
- AAP's Online Poetry Classroom
- Africa Access Review
- African American Literature Book Club
- Asian American Writer's Workshop
- Cartoonists Across America and the World
- Cave Canem
- The Center for the Book
- Children's Book Council
- Library of America
- Mystery Writers of America
- National Book Foundation, Inc.
- National Children's Book and Literary Alliance
- PEN American Center
- Poets & Writers
- Poets House
- Poetry Society of America
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
- Society of Illustrators
- Women's National Book Association

Storytelling Resources
- City Lore
- Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
- Sound Portraits

Mentoring, Tutoring, and Community Programs
- East Harlem Tutoring Program
- Everybody Wins
- Girls Writer Now
- Jumpstart
- Project Reach Youth

Government Resources
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institute for Literacy
- New York State Council on the Arts

Teaching Creative Writing
- WriteNet

Spoken Word Poetry
- Poetry Slam, Inc.
- Urban Word NYC

Publishers
- Candlewick
- Curbstone
- Grove Atlantic
- Harper Collins
- Holiday House
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lee & Low
- Miramax Books
- Nation Books
- Penguin Putnam
- Picador
- Random House
- Rattapallax
- Scholastic
- Simon & Schuster
- Soft Skull Press
- Steerforth Press
- Tundra Books
- W.W. Norton

Reading Lists - Yalsa (ALA)
- NYPL Kids Recommended Reading List
- NYPL Teen Recommended Reading List

Reading Tips for Parents
- Children's Book Council
- National Education Association

Author Websites
- Colin Bootman
- Marthe Jocelyn
- Patricia Lakin
- Joanna Lipper
- Loretta Lopez
- Tony Medina
- Willie Perdomo
- Katha Pollitt
- Francine Prose
- Louis Reyes Rivera
- Marisela Rizik
- Martha Southgate
- Marc Tauss
- Paul Volponi
- Colson Whitehead
- Mike Winerip
- Rita Williams-Garcia

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