These resources will help you integrate children's literature into the curriculum in order to establish an enjoyable learning atmosphere for the students. The following websites will help librarians and teachers to develop creative lesson plans for any classroom setting.
Have students look up their favorite author's birthday or find out what children's authors were born on their birthdays.
Click on the following links to search for the birthdays:
Kathleen Schrock's Guide for Educators
Aspen School Library Author List
Online Resources for Teachers and Librarians
Online Resources for K-12 Teachers: Children's and Adolescent Literature. ERIC Digest D149
This site helps teachers integrate children's and adolescent literature into the K-12 curriculum. It provides resources for literature-based lesson plans, aids to materials selection, online publications for and by K-12 students, and professional development resources.
Children's Literature Resources: The Children's Literature Web Guide (Children's Book Awards)
This site provides a comprehensive guide to children's book awards. It includes international awards, Canadian awards, United States awards, British awards, Australian awards, New Zealand awards, Children's Choice Awards, Best Books of the Year Lists, as well as other Internet information abotu juvenile and adult literature awards.
Children's Literature Choice List 2004
This site has information about award books in the categories Books for Children 3 and Under, Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8, Short Books or Picture Books wtih More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10), Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12), Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and up), and Poetry.
The Reading Corner
This site focuses on grades 2-8 and contains information on children's books, Caldecott and Newberry award winners, and new books.
IPL Kidspace @ Internet Public Library
This site provides numerous links to online resources devoted to children's authors and books.
MVCC Libraries/Children's Literature
This site provides a wealth of Internet resources dedicated to children's literature.
Children's Literature- Resources for Teachers
Provides valuable Internet resources for teachers.
Bookhive Your Guide to Children's Literature and Books
This site contains hundreds of recommended books reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas. "Parental notes" are attached to some reviews to provide addtional information about the book. Users can search for books by author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages, and even favorite illustrator. This site also includes a Fun Activities section.
K-12 Literature
Lesson Plans & Classroom Activities
This site contains a K-12 literature collection of lesson plans and classroom activities by book title. It also contains information and links to sites on authors, folktales, myths and legends, Shakespeare, reading, writing, grammar, peotry, proverbs and quotations, book reports, library lessons, and holiday literature.