A comprehensive site which call itself "The Educator's Best Friend." Major sections for Teachers, Administrators, Lesson Plans, Technology, Professional Development, and the Education World Community.
Read Across America Day, is a celebration that takes place on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. This website provides resources for this event and to keep reading kids reading all year long.
Reading Rockets uses videos, podcasts and other strategies to help children learn to read, and to help parents and other adults support children in their reading.
Selection Aids in the Curriculum Center
These teaching resources are available in the Curriculum Materials Center of the Cheng Library:
Suggestions of both fiction and nonfiction titles that can model good writing. Includes information about persuasive writing and resources about social issues.
Overview of children's literature, with numerous lists of recommended books in many different categories. Standard text for children's literature courses.
Seven volume set organized by grade levels that suggests fiction and nonfiction titles. In addition to basic information about the book, noteworthy feature and teaching ideas are included.
Provides practical suggestions of how to use leveled books to support the teaching of reading. Includes two lists of leveled books, one by title, the other by reading level.
Fredericks provides detailed information about books to use with a specific social studies theme and an extensive list of possible teaching actitivies.
For ages 7-11 this book gives practical ideas and activities to move from reading to writing poems. Includes examples of rhyming and non-rhyming poems, haiku, free verse, riddles, narrative poems, etc.
Subtitled: Librarians & teachers using poetry to foster literacy, Grades K-6. With activities to help students appreciate oral and written language, this book also explains poetry terms and gives examples of different types of poems.
Organized by broad themes (friends, endangered animals, poetry) this book lists five titles for each theme, then provides suggested teaching activities in many curricular areas (art, music, writing, etc.).
Suggests children's books that can be used to teach a variety of science concepts. Sample teaching activities support the teaching of both science and reading.