Teacher Education Resource Center


HOW TO FIND MATERIALS FOR TEACHING READING

Basal Readers

Big Books

Classroom media (puppets, software, video, more)

Leveled Books

Magazine articles for children and young adults

Trade books (fiction and nonofiction books for children and young adults)

Teaching guides with strategies and activities

TRADE BOOKS These are fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults as you may find in a bookstore or a school or public library.

Find full text

Browse our library catalog:

Browse Juvenile/Young Adult shelves in TERC

 

International Children's Digital Library website. Indexes and provides full text of selected books for children by age, country, language and many other features. Includes special collections of historical children's books.

Find reading levels of books, thematic lists, lessons and more

Teacher Book Wizard  Identify reading level for individual book, use QUICK SEARCH; to create lists of books by reading level, genre, subject, use LEVELED SEARCH.

 

The Lexile Framework for Reading Translate lexile levels to grade levels --see dark column on far left of page for grade levels  Find lexile level for a specific books; create lists of books by lexile levels

 

 Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) Allows you to search for DESCRIPTIONS AND REVIEWS of books by age, grade level, lexile reading level, genre, author, title, illustrator or subject. 

Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Website  GREAT SITE!!!!!

Teachingbooks.net Online guides for children's books, interviews with authors and audio clips of authors and actors reading books.

International Reading Association recommended book lists (Includes 'Children's Choices')

See websites under'All Subjects' and under ‘English Language Arts’ for graphic organizers, graded booklists, lesson plans and activities.

BIG BOOKS Oversized books for group reading. Many big books are predictable books.

    Browse our library catalog

    Browse on shelves: Go to the subject number for Reading (372.41) or Language Arts (372.6), find the CX section within that number and then the Big Book section. Some big books may also be found under subject numbers for math, social studies and science (see posted browsing guides).

    Video on our shelves: Using big books curr CX 372.41 Audio/video U84 1990

MAGAZINE AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES for children and young adults

Full text and reading levels

Searchasaurus young children

Kid's Search is for intermediate, middle and high school grades

ADDED FEATURES:These databases also include a 'Teacher's Resources' link to help you find teaching information.

BASAL READERS

Browse in library catalog: Elementary Middle or Secondary

Browse on shelves under: curr CT 372.41

LEVELED BOOKS are designed with controlled vocabulary and syntax and are usually published in series

All leveled series are listed at: readers primary

Selected leveled reading series of note:

Early Success (Houghton Mifflin) curr CT 372.41 H81s 2003 Reading level chart

Pair-it books CT 372.41 St31p 2000

Phonics chapter books curr CT 372.41 Sch64p 1998

Sunshine series (Wright Group/McGraw Hill) curr CT 372.41 W88 Reading level chart

TEACHING GUIDES (lesson plans, activities) PreK, primary, elementary

In our library

Reading or readers or alphabet or phonics or phonetic Paper format books   Ebooks   Video

Writing or language arts or english language or literature or literacy or spelling or penmanship Paper format books    Ebooks   Video

On websites: See links above under Trade Books | Reading levels, books on themes, lessons, more

In scholarly and professional journal articles These are accessible in full text in the databases below:

CLASSROOM MEDIA

Browse in library catalog CAUTION:This icon is used in our catalog for videos AND manipulatives, photos and charts.

 

Selected items of note:

Reading rods

 

Puppets How to see photos of puppets in our library catalog. Note: Folk tales often work well with puppets.

Software

Kidspiration graphic organizer software available for use on five computers in Teacher Education Resource Center (TERC) and for loan on TERC shelves. Also, personal 30 day download available from inspiration.com

Boardmaker  Create picture boards with text and optional audio. May be printed or used interactively with students on a computer. Especially useful for children with disabilities. On five public computers in TERC.

Videos

Discovery Education Streaming Online videos that may be downloaded for use with students

Annenberg Videos Online videos on how to teach reading in grades K-2 and grades 3-5.

 

This instructional page created and maintained by Barbara Clarke, Associate Librarian, Head, Teacher Education Resource Center, Milne Library
State University of New York at Geneseo
Geneseo, New York 14454
clarke@geneseo.edu

Last revised 7/2009