Trade books - general resources - REED 602: Teaching Reading: Theory and Practice

Miriam DesHarnais, Education Librarian

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mdesharnais@towson.edu

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Subjects: Education, Elementary Education, Reading Education, Secondary and Middle School Education

TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
TeachingBooks includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. To make a personal account for creating booklists and saving resources, click Educator Login and sign up with your student or faculty e-mail.

Thematic Booklists
From TeachingBooks
Teaching Books: Award Winners
Access lists of award-winning children's and young adults' books
Full book and Poem readings via TeachingBooks database
Click on the book title then check under Book Readings

Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online: Premium includes over 65,000 videos every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a film streaming service, offering over 12,000 streaming films from over 30 suppliers, with new films added daily. This database includes films from the Criterion Collection, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, New Day Films, and many others.
Films on Demand Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
A web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group both on and off-campus. This collection includes more than 30,000 educational titles in the humanities & social sciences; science; business and economics; and health.

MD College & Career Ready Standards: ELA
College & Career Ready Standard for Maryland
State Standards and Frameworks in Social Studies
Standards and Frameworks in All Grades and Disciplines
Maryland College and Career Ready Standards and Frameworks for Mathematics
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Next Generation Science Standards
Read and search the Next Generation Science Standards: Discover various ways the student performance expectations (PEs) can be arranged, including by Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) or topic arrangements. The standards can also be filtered by grade, the three dimensions, or science disciplines.

NEW: How-to Video: Children's and YA eBooks from public libraries
How to use a public library e-card to access children's e-books from Enoch Pratt Free Library and Baltimore County Public Library.
Baltimore County Public Library e-Cards
An e-card allows you to use BCPL's online research databases and other selected resources such as e-books, e-audiobooks, magazines and streaming video via OverDrive/Libby, CloudLibrary and RBdigital. Open to Maryland residents and to students with a current Maryland school ID whose permanent residence is out-of-state (all out-of-state library cards expire one year from registration.)
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Once libraries have reopened and you feel safe doing so, visit the Service Desk at any branch and bring a current photo ID to get a permanent card with full library privileges.
Enoch Pratt Free Library eCard
Access additional e-books via Libby, Scholastic BookFlix, Tumblebook Library with an eCard via Baltimore City's public library system. Search by age range to see available databases: https://www.prattlibrary.org/research/databases
More e-books and streaming content here: https://www.prattlibrary.org/books-and-more/downloads-streaming-media
Audible Stories
Temporarily free collection of children's and young adult audiobooks from Audible.
Raw Materials Planning Sheet
Useful planning tool from From Integrating Young Adult Literature Through the Common Core Standards (2013)

Cook Library OneSearch
Because Cook OneSearch includes resources across the Library's collections, it is especially useful for interdisciplinary research and getting started in a new area of research. However, it does not include everything. For certain subject areas and topics, you may be better served by using subject-specific databases.

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines.
MAS Ultra: School Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for more than 460 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 50,000 biographies and 60,000 primary source documents.