Reading A-Z is among the family of Learning A-Z websites providing affordable, online curriculum resources.

Launched in January 2002, Reading A-Z now has more than 170,000 members and has won a number of educational awards for its innovation in reading instruction. Among the awards are a Parents' Choice Recommended Award, a Global Learning Initiative Award, and a Teachers' Choice Award.

Because it is delivered over the Internet, Reading A-Z is a constantly changing program. Each month, Reading A-Z adds new books, lesson plans, and other resources, thus continually expanding its wealth of materials.

The website has more than 2,500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French versions) and thousands of teaching and learning materials.

In addition to the K-6 market, Reading A-Z materials have found widespread use at a range of grade levels in special education and special needs, remedial reading, ESL, and ELL.

Amy Freeman

• Special Needs Literacy Grant Coordinator: Putnam County Educational Service Center/Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, Pandora, Ohio  

Adria F. Klein; Ph.D

• Doctorate, Reading and English as a Second Language: University of New Mexico
• Professor Emeritus, Reading Education: California State University
• Reading Recovery trainer: Saint Mary's College
• Coordinator, trainer, researcher: Foundation for Comprehensive Literacy Learning
• Author: professional and children’s books
• Former President: California Reading Association
• Board of Directors: International Reading Association (1997-2000)  

Mary Banfield

• Teacher, K-5: Lake Worth, FL 

Kim Yvette Brown

• Bachelor of Arts in English
• Master’s in Elementary Education
• Pursuing National Board for Professional Teaching Certification in Early Middle Childhood Literacy
• Grade 1 teacher: Columbia, SC 

Patricia Cavin

• Teacher, English as a second language (24 years): Fortaleza, Brazil
• Instructor: Binational Center IBEU-CE 

Jenny Coles

• Coordinator: Parent-Child Play and Learning Group, Palmerston North, New Zealand 

Cathi Cooper

• Bachelor’s in Health and Physical Education
• Elementary Certification: Indiana University
• Teacher: Freeport, PA School District (14 years)
• Read to Succeed teacher 

Wieslawa Ferlacka

• M.A. in English Philology, completing Ph.D. studies at UAM Poznan
• Degree in Extramural Studies
• Translator
• Certificate of Proficiency in English: Cambridge University
• Ministry of Foreign Trade Certificate in English
• Tutor, ESL 

Jennifer Flanders

• Bachelor of Arts: Lock Haven University
• Kindergarten and grade 1 teacher: Avon-Grove Nazarene Christian Academy
• Grade 3 teacher: Sugar Valley Rural Charter School, Loganton, PA  
• Phase II teacher: grade levels 3-4

Patricia Jones

• Grade 2 teacher: Rockledge, FL 

Carolyn Krutka

• Bachelor’s and Master’s in Education in Reading: SUNY Oswego
• Reading for Excellence program participant
• Title I Reading Teacher and RIF program coordinator: Troy, NY 

Tracy Liesemeyer

• Bachelor’s in Secondary Education
• Master’s in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction
• Certification in biology and English, grades 7-12 and ESL grades K-12
• ESL teacher (9 years, 5 as team leader)
• Head of Information Technology: Overseas School of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2 years)
• Teacher: Goodrich Middle School, Lincoln, NE 

Mary Massen

• Program Specialist: Shaw Butte Elementary School, Phoenix, AZ
• National Board Certified Teacher

Melvin Rountree

• Master of Science in Education, School Administration, pursuing Ph.D.
• Graduate work in Special Education
• Teacher, middle/elementary special education (7 years)
• Developer, model classroom management plans and Internet forms for Special Education program developer: SCT-BOCES, Elmira, NY
• Tutor, Grade 4: New York State English Language Arts test 

Sally Ann Ruggiero

• National Board Certified Teacher, Early Childhood Generalist (ages 3-8)
• Reading Specialist (Grades K-5), retired Medford Township Public Schools, New Jersey (28 years)
• Elementary teacher, grades 1, 6, and 8
• Reader for Educational Testing Service and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• Literacy consultant 

Linda Severa

• Associate’s in Science in Education
• Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education
• Teacher, K-1 (15 years): Tyrone, GA  

Jami Shields

• Masters in Education, emphasis in English as a Second Language, Kansas Newman University
• Bachelor's in Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
• ESL teacher, Washington Elementary, Liberal, Kansas (2 years)
• ESL teacher, Salyer Elementary, Guymon, Oklahoma (5 years)
• Current ESL teacher, McLaughlin Elementary, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Carrollton, Texas 

Tracey A. Sieklicki

• National Board Certified Teacher, Reading Recovery and special education, grades 2-4: Slidell, LA 

Cindy Vogel

• Bachelor of Arts: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Teacher, grades 2 and 3 (28 years): Van Brunt Elementary-Middle School, Horicon, WI 

In addition, products are revised on the basis of solicited and unsolicited feedback from thousands of subscribers.  

Maria Castillo

Sister Sites
The Learning A-Z websites include six additional sites that also provide extensive educational resources.

Writing A–Z
Writing A–Z provides teachers with a comprehensive collection of resources to ensure the writing success of their students in grades K–6. The site provides core writing lessons grouped by genre that include student packets of leveled materials, mini-lessons that target key writing skills, and writing tools for organizing and improving writing.

Raz-Kids.com
Raz-Kids Talking Books is ideal for emerging and challenged readers. The website offers interactive, animated, audio books and quizzes for students as well as an online management tool for teachers to build a rosters, assign books and track student reading activities.

Vocabulary A-Z
Vocabulary A-Z allows teachers to generate thousands of custom vocabulary lessons to match the subjects they are teaching and increase students’ reading comprehension. Each lesson includes all the lists and activities needed for a week’s worth of instruction. Educators can create lessons from a bank of thousands of words and dozens of topics.