Course Resources - EDUC 4070 - Methods of Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

Children's Cooperative Book Center (UW Madison)
Offers many helpful features, including book lists on various topics, publishing trends, information on challenges to books in libraries and schools, and links to related Web sites.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
The most comprehensive index of Web sites related to children's literature. Provides access to online stories, topical bibliographies, book reviews, book awards, electronic journals, information on books, movies based on children's books, authors, publishers, and booksellers, and much more.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Good source for children's book reviews arranged by title, author, or grade level. Also offers lesson ideas for curriculum areas or particular themes (e.g. Native Americans). Provides a newsletter and links to related resources for teachers.
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Users can enter criteria, such as age level, historical period, publication year, and nation of origin, and receive a list of award-winning children's books that match these characteristics. Each resulting entry includes the author, title, year, award won, and a brief abstract.
Worlds of Words, International Collection of Children's Literature
From the School of Education at the University of Arizona, this site showcases culturally authentic international children’s and adolescent literature and gives teachers strategies to use these works in teaching.

Lexile Framework for Reading
Find books by lexile score
Reading Rockets
Lexile Measures in LibraryThing « The LibraryThing Blog
LibraryThing - a place to find information about books and organize your own personal library, now has Lexile measures for about a third of its collection. This blog post explains more.

Definition of a trade book: a book intended for general readership. Trade books tend to be fiction or novels.

Try searching in the catalog and limiting to the Curriculum Collection, also try searching in MOBIUS for your topic and juvenile literature.