Hilary Dobyns

Resources for Childrens Literature

Dr. Burke
02/26/2015
Website 1:

Title: Scholastic Teachers

URL: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/

Organization, Person, Corporation, or Entity Responsible for the Site:

Scholastic

This site contains many things that I could use as a teacher. There are
daily starters, different lesson plans that help teach reading/childrens
books, and different strategies and ideas for teaching. There are over
2,000 lesson plans for teaching reading and a lot of the lesson plans
that I looked at are interactive. These lesson plans seem to make
reading fun. I also found the daily starters to be helpful because they
get the students brains to start thinking about things we might be
going over that day in class. I would definitely use this site as a
teacher.

Website 2:

Title: Teaching Books

URL: http://www.teachingbooks.net/

Person, Organization, Corporation, or Entity Responsible for the Site:

teachingbooks.net

I found this site useful because I can search certain books that I want
to use for a lesson or in my classroom. When I search a book the site
brings up activity kits to use for lesson plans, information about the
author, and a little bit about the book. This is useful for a teacher
because they can see if it is grade level appropriate and if the book
sounds like something they would want to read to their class or do
activities on. I would also find this site extremely useful, especially

when teaching reading or trying to come up with books to use for

individual reading groups.
Website 3:

Title: Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers

URL: http://www.readingrockets.org/

Person, Organization, Corporation, or Entity Responsible for the Site:

WETA

This site has a lot of useful teaching strategies to use when teaching
reading, especially for beginner/first year teachers. The strategies
would be helpful when thinking about how I am going to set up reading
instruction in my classroom. Also, the site had a page called Reading
101, which I found extremely useful when thinking about how my
reading instruction will flow and the important aspects of reading I
need to be thinking about when I am teaching. I found this page the
most helpful when it comes to setting up reading instruction and
thinking about the things that we need to teach when it comes to
reading.

Website 4:

Title: Reading Bear

URL: http://www.readingbear.org/

Person, Organization, Corporation, or Entity Responsible for the Site:

WatchKnowLearn.org

I thought this website was helpful because it is a way for students to

work independently on their reading skills. In their free time students
could use the iPad or the computers and go to this website and work
on their phonics skills or just their reading skills in general. I like that
this website caters to children and helps them boost their reading skills
and I also like that they could do this in their free time instead of
something that isnt bettering their reading skills.

Website 5:

Title: Read, Write, Think

URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/

Person, Organization, Corporation, or Entity Responsible for Site:

International Reading Association; NCTE

I found this website useful because of its great amount of resources

available to teachers. This site has many classroom resources and
parent resources that are available for us to use to have our reading
lessons be engaging and fun for our students. I really liked that this
site also had helpful tips and activities for parents to use when helping
their children learn to read.

Book/Journal 1:

Title: Guided Reading

Author: Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

City of Publication: Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Publisher: Heinemann

Year of Publication: Printed: 2008; Copyright Date: 1996

Number of Pages: 390

I think this resource is valuable because I used it in my reading and

language class that I took here at Lynchburg College. We read excerpts
from the book, but the excerpts we read were very beneficial to
teaching reading and learning the correct ways to teach reading.

Book/Journal 2:

Title: Teaching Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating all Learners

Authors: Michael F. Graves, Connie F. Juel, Bonnie B. Graves, Peter F.

Dewitz

Publisher: Pearson

Year of Publication: 2010

Number of Pages: 613

I think that this resource will be helpful because it talks about

motivating readers, but especially readers that do not like to read or
may not be very good at it. I also liked that in parts of this book there
were sections on differentiating reading instruction for certain students
that may need it.

Book/Journal 3:

Title: Teaching Childrens Literature: Its Critical!

Authors: Christine Leland, Mitzi Lewison, Jerome Harste

City of Publication: New York City

Publisher: Routledge

Year of Publication: 2013

Number of Pages: 219

I think that this book would be helpful because it talks about why we
need to teach childrens literature and how we can go about doing
that.

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1. Is the author of the website credible?
2. Does the author have publications?
3. Does the information seem biased?
4. Is the page current/dated?
5. Does the author use outside/other sources?
Sources used for Ways to Distinguish Reliable Websites:

Title: Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources;

URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm

Title: Information Literacy: Evaluating Web Information;

URL: http://library.unca.edu/lr/evalweb.html

Title: Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask;

URL:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Title: Computing and Information Technology: How Can I Tell if a

Website is Credible; URL: https://uknowit.uwgb.edu/page.php?
id=30276