For Teachers

If you are looking for children's books related to February holidays and events, you'll find them here on the February Calendar of Children's Books. These include children's books for Valentine's Day, Black History Month, African American History Month, Library Lovers Month, and children's book author birthdays.

If you are looking for children's books related to January holidays and events, you'll find them here on the January Calendar of Children's Books. These include books for Martin Luther King Day, books for the 100th day of school (100 days of school), stories by children's authors with January birthdays and more.

Picture That From Mendel to Normandy, by Sharon McElmeel, covers picture books and ideas, curriculum and concepts for tweens and teens. Teachers who want to teach upper elementary, middle and high school students with picture books will find plenty of suggested picture books that can be used for teaching older students in Picture That! From Mendel to Normandy.

May is Get Caught Reading Month. Since 1999, the Get Caught Reading Month national campaign has promoted reading for fun for all ages. Get out your children's books, your teens' books and your own books and encourage your family to Get Caught Reading!

Scripts, tips, and more to make it easy for you to enjoy reader's theater with your students, from author Aaron Shepard.

A valuable resource for parents and teachers, categorized by age level, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

An excellent site, with articles, reviews, and great tips for using children's literature in the classroom.

Search for award-winning books for children, from preschool level to YA (Young Adult), using a database that allows you to be very specific about what you are looking for.

Excellent site with a feminist, multicultural perspective, from Kay E. Vandergrift, professor of library and information at Rutgers University.

This article, from the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Digest, focuses on motivation the low performing adolescent reader.

Use the Picture Book Database at Miami University to find picture books by topic, concept, and skill.

Reading Rockets is dedicated to providing "information about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle." It contains downloadable teachers' and family guides, articles, tips, and more.

Here you will find author interviews, ideas for using books in the classroom, and much more from Scholastic, the largest publisher of children's books in the U.S.

Orca Book Publishers provides teacher's guides in pdf format for more than three dozen books in the these categories: picture books; Orca Young Readers, books for 7 to 11 year olds; junvenile fiction for 8 to 12 year olds; and Orca Soundings for ages 12 and older.

This list was compiled from the National Education Association's online survey that ran on the Read Across America web site during 2007.

Several thematic units of study, from the Teachers' Asian Studies Summer Institute web site.

An excellent article by Tarry Lindquist, an award winning fifth grade teacher, from the Language Arts/Social Studies section of the Scholastic web site.