Kay Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page, written by a specialist with a feminist bent, offers a unique perspective on teaching young adult literature. It includes a collection of articles and choice of 100 best books for children's and YA literature.
www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/YoungAdult/index.html
Web Watch—Focus on Young Adult Literature provides a portal to the top young adult literature selection pages on the Web.
www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?
HREF=yalitww.html
ISLMC—Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources provides online review sources, book reviews (by genre) by children and young adults, and a section on bibliotherapy.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Farriosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature, created by a children's librarian, focuses on literary information, authors, and illustrators. Fairrosa includes reviews of young adult books, searchable by author.
hwww.fairrosa.info/
The Horn Book Guide Online contains an extensive searchable database of reviews by author, illustrator, title, subject, and bibliographic data, as well as the ratings assigned in the original Horn Book reviews.
www.hornbookguide.com/
Nancy Keane's Children's Literature Web Page offers an extensive list of recommended literature sites and includes book reviews by children.
www.nancykeane.com/
ALAN, the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English, archives their magazine articles on the teaching of young adult literature.
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/
ELL Resources
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers: Fry's Readability Graphs: Instructions for Use (DiscoverSchool.com), presents information on readability, both by grade level and age, along with Edward Fry's easy to use readability graph. The site also recommends resources for understanding formulas for readablility, provides directions on how to display readability statistics in Microsoft Word XP, and suggests sites on which to search a database of leveled books.
school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html
Matching books and readers: Selecting literature for English learners by Sylvia M. Vardell, Nancy L. Hadaway, and Terrell L. Hadaway,
is an article that provides suggestions for selecting books to aid English learners with language acquisition and comprehension.
www.dmps.k12.ia.us/programs/7selectinglitforELL.pdf
The National Education Association strives to provide successful public schools for all students. NEA's Reading Across America honored Hispanic Heritage Month and provided a list of bilingual (English/Spanish) books for grades kindergarten through high school, some available in both English and Spanish editions. The site also provides a list of billingual (spanish) books sorted by age.
www.nea.org/readacross/resources/bilingualbooks.html
The National Education Association also honored Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by releasing a bilingual reading list for K-12 students. These titles include fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The site also provides a list of asian-american books sorted by age.
www.nea.org/readacross/resources/aabooks.html
