Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Teaching Books.net website



Teaching Books. (2001). Retrieved November 26, 2014, from http://teachingbooks.net


Summary: This is a one-stop shop website with supplementary online materials about all the books students read in schools.  Lesson plans, online videos with authors, readers theater scripts, interviews, text complexity analyses are all in one database set up for easy use.  

Review:  This is a great place for teachers and educators to find the vast collection of resources out there on the web about the books their students are reading.  It is a time saver.

Diversity: Every book I've searched for has been available; some have more limited information than others, but they exist. This includes authors of color.


Suggestions for Teachers: Use this website resource to help plan your ELA class and for students to have access to authors.

Reading Level:

  1. Quantitative: N/A
  2. Qualitative: Easy to use layout and materials are student friendly. This website will help teachers and students alike get schema for the text they are reading and more in-depth knowledge of the author of their text. This could be used either before reading the text or after to get insight on the reader's craft. No prior knowledge is necessary except for how to search a database.
Content Areas: English, Social Studies

Common Core State Standards:



CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.


Relevant links: Teaching Books
Subjects/Themes: teaching resources, ELA, Common Core, text complexity, lesson plans


Awards: N/A

Series Information: N/A


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