Sharon Inge
SLM 521
May 2005
Bibliography of
Weblinks for Children’s Literature
Need some ideas
for incorporating children’s literature into your lesson plans?
Looking for a good
book to read?
Want to find a way
to make summer reading fun for your child?
The websites below
offer a wide variety of information on children’s literature for teachers,
students and parents. The next time
someone asks you if you’ve read any good books lately, you’ll have a great list
of books to tell them about.
This A to Z
teacher stuff site has hundreds of literature activities and lesson plans based
on popular children’s books
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/Literature_Activities/index.shtml Date visited:
5/22/05
Designed to
promote literacy and a love of reading, this site offers teachers resources for
literacy programs as well as an ESL literacy link.
http://www.literacyconnections.com/ Date
visited: 5/22/05
McGraw – Hill
Children’s Literature
This site provides
links to websites based on book series and characters, lesson plans and
activities incorporating children’s literature and an author of the month
section.
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/kidlit/ Date
visited: 5/22/05
Multicultural
Children’s Literature
This site offers
listings and reviews of multicultural children’s literature including links to
African American, Asian American, Hispanic, Jewish and many other cultures.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk28.htm Date
visited: 5/22/05
Lots of great
reading links for teachers including literature circles, reading groups and
Socratic seminars.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ Date
visited: 5/23/05
Teacher Source Arts &
Literature - PBS
PBS offers a wide
range of lesson plans and activities geared toward specific grade levels on
this teacher-based site.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm Date
visited: 5/22/05
Index to Children’s
Book Authors & Illustrators
This site offers
unusual information such as author birthdays, interviews, appearances and a
list of autobiographies of authors and illustrators. Although the site indicates that it was designed for teachers,
parents and students I believe that teachers will be the most beneficial users.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm Date
visited: 5/22/05
This site is sponsored
by the Children’s Book Council and is geared mostly towards publishers and
packagers of trade books for children.
However, several useful links for teachers include information on
Children’s Book week, Poetry week, reading lists and an author and illustrator
directory.
http://www.cbcbooks.org/ Date
visited: 5/23/05
Children’s Literature Themed Reviews
Sorted by
categories, this web site reviews books with topics such as summer fun,
camping, quilting and space exploration.
It also offers teacher guides and resources for hundreds of different
stories.
http://www.childrenslit.com/th.htm Date
visited: 5/22/05
This link from the
Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Webpage includes 2300 ready to use book talks
on many different topics including sensitive subjects such as adoption,
juvenile delinquency and race relations, just to name a few.
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/ Date
visited: 5/23/05
With links to
author web sites, book awards, classics, series books and children’s writing,
this web site has plenty to offer for parents and teachers but especially
students.
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm Date visited: 5/22/05
This Carroll
County Public Library web link not only includes links to book lists, book
reviews, awards and author web sites but it also has links to “Awesome Clipart
for kids”, craft sites and a homework helper.
http://kids.carr.org/ Date
visited: 5/22/05
This web site
designed by children’s author Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man, The Real
Story of the Three Little Pigs) give boys lots of books to chose from that are
especially appealing to guys. The site
is a little tricky to navigate but it’s worth the effort.
http://www.guysread.com/ Date
visited: 5/23/05
This very
user-friendly kid's web site has a lot to offer. In addition to the usual book reviews and author websites, this
site also has trivia games based on popular children’s literature, as well as
crossword puzzles, word searches and word scrambles based on children’s
literature. This site also has a great
guide to starting a book club and addresses where kids can write to their
favorite authors.
http://www.kidsreads.com/index.asp Date
visited: 5/22/05
This site offers
interactive games and stories for the early elementary or preschool child. Modeled after some of PBS’s best-loved
shows, this site is sure to please young readers.
http://pbskids.org/ Date
visited: 5/22/05
Houghton Mifflin Reading –
Kids’ Place
This site offers
reading activities for grades one through six including games, web field trips,
mysteries and opportunities for kids to post their own book reviews.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/index.html Date
visited: 5/24/05
This Scholastic
sponsored family reading site includes activities, games and challenges geared
towards helping parents make summer reading fun.
http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/read/all/summer/index.htm Date
visited: 5/22/05
PBS offers
suggestions about starting and maintaining book clubs for kids in this parent
oriented website.
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/bookclubs/main.html Date
visited: 5/22/05
Children’s Literature –
Resources for Parents
Part of the
Children’s Literature Web Guide, this parents’ site offers many resources for
helping children read.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/rparent.html Date
visited: 5/22/05
This site offers
parents articles about reading and encouraging children to read.
http://www.booknutsreadingclub.com/parents.html Date
visited: 5/24/05