Professional Associations
Multicultural & Diversity Teaching Ideas
Math in Children's Books?
Children's Literature Databases
TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
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Resource 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.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an acquisition, research, and reference database that provides more than 200,000 reviews of children's books. The database is full text searchable from 33 review sources. The CLCD also includes Teaching Tools, such as lesson plans and teaching guides, in addition to entries for more than 339,000 awards, prizes, best book lists and reading lists.
CLCD also contains 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.
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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.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Access to 223 full-text journals from university press publishers covering multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
Searching for Math Related Materials in the Education Resources Center
Materials in the Educational Resources Center can provide you with information to flesh out what you find online: books by a specific author, books about a particular math topic, textbooks, classroom activity ideas, lesson plans, and more that you can borrow and use to enrich and add interest to lesson plans and classes you conduct as a student teacher.
To search for materials in the ERC, follow these simple instructions.
From the Ely Library Quicksearch.
- Click on Advanced Search under the search box.
- In the “Keyword” box, type in B8: Education Resources Collection
- If you are searching for books by an author, type the name in "quotation marks" in the search box next to Author.
- If you wish to search a topic instead such as "shapes" or "fractions," change the next drop down box to Keyword and type in your topic.
For Thematic Units:Follow the above search tips but enter "thematic unit" as a SERIES search.
What is a Picture Book?
Picture Book GenresLook here for types and genres of children's chapter books (mostly PZ7 call numbers in Ely Library)
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