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Burke Resources for Childrens Literature Five useful websites with useful information about reading and/or reaching children's books: 1. Scholastic- Read Every Day, Lead a Better Life; www. scholastic.com/teachers/; Dick Robinson created the site. This site is filled with various amount of information for teachers, students and also parents. This site provides popular books, lesson plans, activities for various grade levels, and information about different authors. On the Scholastic website it has printables that can be used in a classroom and videos that a teacher can show to their class about different books or genres. Also on this website, there is a place where the teacher can create a planning calendar that helps organize which books they want to teach and when they want to do it. This website is very useful!

2. CanTeach; www.canteach.ca/elemntary/novel11.html; Created in 1997 to assist teaches in finding and using resources online. This site consists of lesson plans, resources, and links for various books. This website has a page of elementary resources that includes GREAT lesson plans on picture books and novels. These lesson plans provide step-by-step instructions on how to get the students involved and interested to read. The lesson plans also helps with telling the teacher the materials in which they should use to make the book more interesting. There is a list of books that vary in topics, genres, and different types of books.

3. Yale-New Haven Teaches Institute- Childrens Literature in the Classroom; www.cis.yale.edu/ynhit/curriculum/units/2004/2/04.02.01.x.html; by various authors This website is divided into genres and goes into detail about each one. The website also includes activities that can be done in the classroom to help teach and explain the different genres. This site helps develop comprehension, discuss conflict and resolution, information on fairy tales, and breaks down Dr. Seuss books.

4. MrDonn; www.mrdonn.org/literature.html; created by Mr. Donn- a teacher On this website it includes different types of genres, free presentations, and activities for grades k-12, lesson plans, games, and information on authors. This site also includes information dealing with reading skills and ways to help improve your students skills to become better readers. Mr. Donn website also includes clipart that can be used in the classroom that can form discussion about certain books and genres.

5. Childrens Literature Network: www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org; created by a council of people. This website provides books that are forthcoming and trailers on books that are coming out. Also on this website there are interviews with authors and illustrators. I think is amazing, because teachers can show this to their students and they will get to learn more about the individuals that have wrote the books they are reading and discussing in class. This website also includes book recommendations for teachers and list of new books that teachers can add to their classroom libraries.

Identify 3 non-website sources that help you learn more about reading and/or teaching children's literature: 1. Learning From Children Reading Books:Transactional Theory and the Teaching of Literature; a scholarly journal, By Lee Galada, a professor at Your University; September 1, 2013. This journal is valuable because it explained the importance of group discussion in a classroom and incorporating poems into other forms of literature. This journal also discuss the important of childrens literature in childrens lives and the joys, difficulties, and dangers of teaching children books.

2. Literature and the Child. Written by Blanche E. Weekes, PHD. Silver, Burdett and Company is the publisher. Was Published in New York. 383 pages. This book consist of background and history of childrens literature for the elementary school level, information about those who write poetry for children, explains poetry in elementary school, and discuss fairytales. This book provides many examples and problems that are examined throughly. 3. Young Adult Literature.Written by Millicent Lenz and Ramona M. Mahood. Publised by American Library Association in Chicago. This book includes a lot of information! It goes over the history of literature for young adults, novels, and how to think about the literature. However, this book at a lot of information, some information was directed for children but instead for teens and how to read/teach literature to teens.

Identify 5 characteristics of or ways distinguishing reliable websites:

1. Knowing who authored (wrote) the site: www.edb.utexas.edu 2. Noticing the suffix on the domain name- some are misleading (.edu, .com, . org): www.edb.utexas.edu 3. Date- whether the information is up to date: uknowit.uwgb.edu/page 4. Writing style- does the website use poor spelling and grammar: uknowit.uwgb.edu/page 5. Is there contact information that is valid- can you contact the people or individual that created the site: www.library.unca.edu/evalweb.thml 6. How well organized in the page- is it easy to navigate and find information: www.mhee.com/mayfieldpub/webtutor/judging.htm