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Children's Literature
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Bank Street College of Education: The Children's Book Committee: The Book Lists
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The Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education offers comprehensive annotated lists of fiction and nonfiction books for children, infants through age fourteen. |
Book
Hive: Your Guide to Children's Literature and Books
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BookHive, designed for children ages birth through
twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading
about children's books, provides reader's advisory service and contains hundreds of recommended book reviews in a
variety of reading levels and interest areas. |
Book Spot: Children's Books
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A directory of links related to children's books. Categories
include: Bestsellers, Awards, Reading Lists, Reviews, Online
Books. |
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site
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A
collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways
to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities
about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional
topics. |
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An extensive list of children's
authors & illustrators created by David K. Brown at the
U. of Calgary, Canada. |
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The CCBC, a Library of the School of Education at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison, helps librarians, teachers and others to locate the best books possible to meet their needs. |
Horn Book: Resources for Educators
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Horn Book Magazine's Resources for Educators page includes its best articles for teachers and an updated array of booklists for classroom use and home sharing. |
LB-Kids
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The latest teacher guides, printable author bios, discussion
questions and more from Hachette Book Group USA. |
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The Lexile Framework for Reading,
an educational tool that links text and readers under a common
metric without subjective evaluation, includes an extensive database
of lexile scores for children's literature.
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Created by Annette Lamb, this site
encourages active reading through book-technology connections. |
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Lots of children's literature
recommendations and reviews by Esme Raji Codell, author and
licensed readiologist. |
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A national multimedia project that
offers comprehensive information on helping young children
learn to read, a companion to the PBS television series Reading
Rockets: Launching Young Readers. |
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A Scholastic Teachers Resource page
featuring children's authors and illustrators. |
SCORE
Cyber Guides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities
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Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction
centered on core works of literature. CyberGuides contain student
and teacher editions, standards, tasks and processes by which
they may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and rubrics,
based on California Language Arts Content Standards. |
Book Award Sites
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CCBC: Awards and Best-of-the-Year Lists -
The Cooperative Children's Book Center's lists of annual awards and distinctions in children's literature. |
Presented annually, the Coretta
Scott King Award is given to authors and illustrators of
African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding
and appreciation of the "American Dream."
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Database
of Award Winning Children's Literature -
DAWL is a database of almost 6,000 records from 73 awards across
six English-speaking countries. Create a tailored reading list
of quality children's literature or find out if a book has won
one of the indexed awards. |
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The Great Stone Face Award is given
annually to an author whose book receives the most votes from
students in grades 4-6 throughout NH. |
Named in honor of the 18th century
British book seller, John Newbery, the Newbery Medal Award
is given annually to the author of the most distinguished
contribution to American literature for children. This site
has a complete list of winners from 1922 to the present.
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Bug Picture Book Award
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is designed to promote early literacy and honor the best in
recent children's picture books. The award is given annually
to an author whose book receives the most votes from students
in grades K-3 throughout NH. |
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Named in honor of the 19th century
English illustrator, Randolph Caldecott, the Caldecott Medal
Award is given annually to the artist of the most distinguished
children's book. This site has a complete list of medal winning
books from 1938 to the present. |
Online Books & Reading Activities
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ABC Fast Phonics
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A beginning phonics program with over 100 pages, 400 cartoons and click-and-hear words, plus audio narration. |
Between
the Lions
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Award-winning PBS television series which aims to give kids
4-7 years old some of the experience they need in order to become
successful readers. |
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A free reading motivation program
for children in grades 1-8. |
Electronic
Books and Online Reading -
Annette Lamb's extensive list of electronic books and
online reading resources including interactive stories, articles,
and books. |
Project Gutenberg -
The Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog, holding 20,000 free books, is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. |
Sadlier-Oxford
Phonics Interactive -
Explore phonetics using word match games, memory cards and many
other in-depth activities to teach students (K-6) about letters,
sounds and words. |
Sight Words with Samson -
The games use 28 word lists, ranging from very easy to challenging, to take players through four vocabulary-building drills, with excellent audio reinforcement - a great site for EFL/ELL classes. |
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StarFall
features rhyming games and high interest books, making learning
to read fun. |
StoryLine
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An online streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild
members reading children’s books aloud. Each book includes
accompanying activities and lesson ideas. |
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Words and Pictures features games
and activities to making reading and writing more fun, hosted
by the BBC.
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