An easy-to-use database that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It Includes Meet-the-Author Movies, Book Readings, and Interviews among thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment. Every resource has been selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. Video Search Guide (3:30)
CLCD is an acquisition, research, and reference database that provides more than 200,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 33 review sources. The CLCD also includes Teaching Tools - lesson plans and teaching guides plus entries for more than 339,000 awards, prizes, best book lists and reading lists entries. The database also provides access to over 30,000 book jacket images as well as information provided by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile,and Reading Counts. Also included are links to more than 60,000 web pages featuring individual authors or illustrators.
Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. Search Guide | Video Tutorial
"Find and share strategies for helping students read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word."
Children's / Young Adult Literature
The ERC Collection includes children's literature which is defined as books that are targeted to children under the age of 12, regardless of who else may read them. There are also books aimed at young adult readers between the ages of 12 to 18.
These lists were initially created by Hello Literacy's Jen Jones, for Reading Literature (RL) standards 1-10 for grades K-2. Here at the ERC, we have edited and expanded these lists to reflect books that are available in our collection for your convenience and instruction.
Here find a selection of titles available in the Westfield State University Library's Education Resources Center (ERC) that represent or illustrate various cultures.
