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Great Links to Promote Reading including Great Books for Kids!
   
  • Lists of Books for Children in Grades K-6
 
  • A Parent's Guide - The Ministry of Education has a booklet for parents with great tips on working with your child at home to help them learn to read.

 
  High Interest-Low Vocabulary Books and Reluctant Readers
www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/07qp.htm - A recommended list of quick picks for reluctant young adult readers ages 12-18.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7946 - Best Bets for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
www.paulkropp.com/highint.html - Books specifically written for reluctant readers ages 11 to 18.
   
  Great Links for Books to Read Aloud
  http://nancykeane.com/rl/ - Scroll down to Read Alouds... different grade levels, themes, etc.

www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah-treasury-pic1.html

www.carolhurst.com/profsubjects/reading/readingaloud.html

www.ilfonline.org/programs-awards/read-aloud-books/

www.geocities.com/aletain/registry1.html - an Alberta teacher lists good read alouds by grade

www.read2kids.org/readaloud_books.htm

www.hedgehogbooks.com/top10.html

   
  Leveled Books
Check out these online databases that allow users to search for the guided reading level of books:
http://www.scholastic.ca/cgi-bin/clubs/grl.pl
http://books.atozteacherstuff.com/leveled-books/
And this site provides the provides descriptions of the different reading levels:
www.scholastic.ca/readinglevels/
   
  Book Buddies
  http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=14 - For creating well-planned Book Buddy sessions.
www.funlessonplans.com/reading_lesson_plans/book_buddies.htm

August 31, 2011