A great new resource for any assignment involving children's or young adult books is TeachingBooks.net. This is a new TexShare database that is available to academic, school, and public libraries in the state of Texas that participate in the TexShare program.
From the home page, you can search for resources for books by title, grade level, core curricular area, genre, or cultural area. In the example below, I searched for books in the math curricular area, and then used the limiters in the left-hand column to further narrow my results by grade level (in this example, grades 1-5):
The results show the types of resources available Author resources include audio name pronunciation guides, interviews (some audio, some video), and links to the author’s or illustrator’s websites or blogs, Book resources include lesson plans (some of which have the relevant TEKS), award information, book trailers (videos), and readings (such as excerpts read by the author, or from audiobook versions).
The page for a book has even more resources, such as links to other books in the same genres or subject areas. Text complexity measures may include Lexile levels and ATOS (Accelerated Reader) reading levels.
If you create an Educator Login, you can create custom book lists to save and share, such as these (if you are off-campus, you'll be prompted for your NTNET user name and password):
From the home page, you can search for resources for books by title, grade level, core curricular area, genre, or cultural area. In the example below, I searched for books in the math curricular area, and then used the limiters in the left-hand column to further narrow my results by grade level (in this example, grades 1-5):
The results show the types of resources available Author resources include audio name pronunciation guides, interviews (some audio, some video), and links to the author’s or illustrator’s websites or blogs, Book resources include lesson plans (some of which have the relevant TEKS), award information, book trailers (videos), and readings (such as excerpts read by the author, or from audiobook versions).
The page for a book has even more resources, such as links to other books in the same genres or subject areas. Text complexity measures may include Lexile levels and ATOS (Accelerated Reader) reading levels.
If you create an Educator Login, you can create custom book lists to save and share, such as these (if you are off-campus, you'll be prompted for your NTNET user name and password):
