Sharon Hohlfeld
This bibliography will be useful for myself as a future elementary teacher to link helpful websites when I am focused on literature in ILA or any of the other subject areas. It will also be useful to parents and children in the development of children’s literature in the elementary grades as well as a tool for future reading. It will greatly benefit others and myself and is a constant work in progress.
-Founded in 1876, the American Library Association (ALA) is the oldest and largest library association in the world. From advocacy to 100 most banned books in literature, the site has information for any reader and any book. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-A wealth of information that supplies anything from meeting authors, themed units, teaching material to booklists, kids, parents, and librarians resources. Offers an opportunity to become a member and save on book prices by receiving newsletters and discounts. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.childrenslit.com/home.htm
-A website devoted to the development and advancement of students ability to read and comprehend the text. Each topic of developing literacy includes a series of books that are suggested to help with that particular goal. If librarians are able to order books, they would be even more successful for students. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.hopscotchbooks.com/html/literacy.html
-Publishes The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide since 1924 and are the most distinguished journals in children and young adult literature. Each year a committee decides on U.S. publishers and awards those best books in a number of categories. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.hbook.com/awards/bghb/about.asp
-This site will successfully help teachers to provide skills for their students on reading proficiency and improve their reading development. Offers 26 different subtopics from grammer and mechanics to speech and debate. Gives some good ideas for teachers about what to do before/during/after reading, worksheets related to phonics and hundreds of other links to websites. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/readingmain.html
-A collection of children’s authors and illustrators listed alphabetically with a link to their personal website. Offers opportunity to research and explore those in particular who are popular or suggested. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
-A specific page for children’s literature that offers books in age range, format of the books, noteworthy books, and award winners. Easy to search and able to view the cover, read a brief synopsis about the book and featured text along with prices and ability to order online. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-A very popular website with a collection of book reviews for children, ideas to incorporate them into your classroom as well as activities that can be included. A wealth of knowledge and information available to research and make decisions for the best books to be brought into the classroom. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-Excellent resource to search for books because of the large amount of search options available. Search options include, appropriate appeal to boys, girls, or both, ages, reading levels, genres, keywords, and ethnicity. With so many options any child, parent, or teacher should find a book best suited to read. Once a search has been done, you can see title, author, at a glance and even Kid-Lit stars on popularity of the book. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/newb_hon.html
-Book lists and lesson plans for grades K-8. Can either search by title, author name, or topic or search alphabetically. Has an extensive amount of popular books with recommendations of activities that involve fluency, phonics and retelling. Basically will tell you what to teach. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/index.html
-Wonderfully colorful and simple for children to navigate around. This site offers over 27 different genres for children to choose from as well as pictures of the book, cataogires the book falls into, age levels and a lengthy description of the book. There are also recommendations from readers and parental notes. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-This website is designed for kids ages 8 to 14 and is designed by a retired librarian who enjoys the love of children and books. The site draws children in with a hook of questions and offers 27 different categories to navigate through. –Date Visited 5/19/05
14. KidsRead.com
-Booker T. Worm navigates you through a number of options for children. Even offers book clubs as well as the most popular and appealing articles and books to search down the page for. Hundreds of articles and activities available. Book clubs allow children to start their own or join a already popular club, the big hit now, Harry Potter! –Date Visited 5/19/05
-On the scholastic website, there is a section devoted specifically to genres and how it supports children’s learning and growth. It is divided into two age levels with 14 genres all together with a definition and brief description on their use. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/bestbooks/genres
-This website is a collaborative approach to genre study. It offers information on specific genres as links as well the general introduction to teaching genres to students. Connects directly to the NCTE/IRA standards with tons of links to further research topics. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-Best website I have seen with so much information and helpful sites! For genres, there are hundreds of books listed for each and definitions of each genre. Everything you need about any children’s literature can be found here. Excellent! –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/state_library/library.html
-With the use of this website you can search for lesson plans that link to the content of literature. Because all subjects are linked to literature at some point it is useful to have a reference to look for books that will accommodate to that particular lesson. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
-Availability to do an extensive search for lesson plans and student interactives through at least 5 different content partners that are associated with MarcoPolo. Each lesson includes a complete lesson plan layout, from overview, connections, time frame, to extensions. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/teacher/content_index.aspx
-Took a different approach and listed alphabetically titles of books with at least two different lesson plans under each title. Under the book title for A’s are at least 40 different popular books with more than 100 lessons to choose from. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html
-Teachers are able to submit, browse, request, or search thousands of lesson plans from a wide range of content areas as well as grade levels. Grades range from preschool up to college level, which offer a variety of unique and some of the best websites by good teachers. –Date Visited 5/19/05
-Able to search lesson plans specifically in Language Arts with 16 different topics to choose from. Each lesson is laid out in proper lesson plan format and has able resources to choose from. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts
-This website offers a variety of lesson plans through an extensive search. Once you perform a search for your topic and grade level it will list hundreds of units, upon clicking on one, it will list technology tools, national standards, and about 10 lessons for the unit. Given time and energy this website can be filled with endless information. –Date Visited 5/19/05
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/