Research Guides: SPED 301: Introduction to Special Education: Locate Children's Literature

Notable streaming and e-Book content

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.

Full book and Poem readings via TeachingBooks database
Click on the book title then check under Book Readings
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.
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
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.
Epic! for Educators
Thousands of popular, high-quality books for K - 5. Epic! is 100% Free For Elementary School Teachers and Librarians in the U.S. and Canada
Fable Cottage: Bilingual tales for language learners
Video and text stories in English, French, Italian, Spanish & German

Finding Children's Books in the Library

The Children's Collection is at the back right corner of Cook Library's 4th Floor.

Finding Children's Books in the Catalog at TU's Albert S Cook Library (video; 2:27)
Shows how to use Cook OneSearch and the library catalog to see if the library owns children's and young adult books. When you find a book that you want, make sure its status is listed as "Available" and screenshot or write down the book's location, call number, title and author. This will help you find the book on the shelf. The Children's Area is at the back right of the Library's 4th floor.
Cook Library Catalog - Searching the Children's Collection
Click Advanced Search; Under "Format" pick "Children's/Juvenile" to limit your search to just our Children's collection. Click Ask a Librarian for further assistance.

Special Book Lists

Selected Braille Books at Albert S. Cook Library
Selected Braille and sensory books
Disability Collection: Teaching Books
Books and related resources featuring Disability Culture and Experiences

Children's Literature Award Lists - Disability Themes

Children's Literature Databases

MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
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Covers general interest topics such as general reference, health, business, and culture.
MAS Ultra: School Edition This link opens in a new window
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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.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
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Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines.
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.

Ask a Librarian

SPED 301: Introduction to Special Education

Notable streaming and e-Book content

Finding Children's Books in the Library

Special Book Lists

Children's Literature Award Lists - Disability Themes

Children's Literature Databases