Krystin Law

Dr. Burke
February 23, 2016
Resources for childrens literature

1. http://www.readingrockets.org/books/aboutkids#choosing Author: WETA Public

Broadcasting
2. http://teacher.scholastic.com/read/teaching-with-books.htm Author: Scholastic
3. http://www.ala.org/offices/resources/doasidohtml Author: American Library
Association
4. http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Author: Carol Moore
5. http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/teaching-language-arts.html Author:
Different users.

The first website that I found was all about choosing certain books, and seeing how those
books would impact the children in your classroom. This website is also good with information
that is good with teaching literacy to do students at different levels in their lives. The second
website that I found was a website about different books and it gives you different lesson plans.
They have a variety of books that could be chosen from at a variety of levels that could help with
different students who are at different levels. The third website that I found is about what
teachers can do to teach their students about reading from childrens books and how they can
learn from them. The website has different subsets that the teacher can read from when figuring
out what she is going to teach her children. They have book talks, curriculum based on certain

books and etc. The next website that I found has a list of children books with a link so that you
can play them aloud for all students so that they can listen to them and could follow along in the
book that they are provided, or the teacher could show the book to the entire class and they could
all follow along together. The fifth website that I found teaches how books can make the childs
understanding richer and deeper.

1. Games with Books. Written by: Peggy Kaye. New York. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux. Copyright day: 2002. Pages: 351
2. Playful Poems That Build Reading Skills. Written by: Kirk Mann. Broadway, New
York. Publisher: Scholastic. Copyright: 2000. Pages: 95.
3. The Wonder of It all. When Literacy and Literacy Intersect. Author: Nancy J. Johnson
and Cyndi Giorgis. Portsmouth, NH. Publisher: A division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Copyright: 2007. Pages: 210.
A few books that I found have different ranges in what teaches the children various things
that could help the children learn different things depending on which book they are reading
from (or what you are teaching from). The first book that I have found gives different books that
you can read to the student and then they have different activities that could go along with that
book to help them remember the most important parts of the book. The second book that I found
was called Playful Poems. For example, theres a poem called Cat and Mouse. You will read the
poem and then there are different activities for the students to do, there are questions about
reading comprehension; rhyme; read, think, draw; and word work. One thing that I like about
this book is that it expands the students vocabulary, and improves reading comprehension for
the students and for the teachers that are teaching these lessons. The third book that I found was
The Wonder of It All. This book teaches literature in literacy learning, teaches how to build

community, how to nurture response, how to create readers, how to inspire writing, how to
promote inquiry, how to cultivate wonder. These different subjects can be used to teach certain
subjects, the teacher can choose which subset she wants to use to back up what is being taught to
their students.

1. http://journalism.about.com/od/reporting/a/Eight-Ways-To-Tell-If-A-Website-IsReliable.htm
2. http://www.masternewmedia.org/how_to_evaluate_a_web_site_trustworthiness/
I found this journal article that lists reasons that make known what websites are reliable
or not. 1. Look for websites from established institutions. 2 look for sites with expertise. 3. Steer
clear of commercial sites. 4. Beware Bias. 5. Check the Date. 6. Look at the sites look. 7. Avoid
anonymous authors. 8. Check the links. The second journal that I found was about determining
how reliable the website was. 1. There are no authorities. 2. What you know matters. 3. Keep
count. 4. Facts and appearances. 5. Generalizations are often untrustworthy. 6. Absolutes are
hidden generalizations. 7. Statistics are often misleading. 8. Go to the source. 9. Motives and
frames matter. 10. Beware misdirection.