Sedgwick Library Blog

ALA

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm

IRA

http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html

Nancy Keane

http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/ya.htm

NCTE

http://www.ncte.org/middle/topics/content/117565.htm

http://readingrants.org/

Best of Lists, If You Liked Lists, Topic Lists

http://www.seemore.mi.org/booklists/fiction.html#Topics

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html

Find Historical Fiction

http://www.waterborolibrary.org/oldsite/bklistjh.htm#jhna

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm

This page, created by one of the curriculum supervisors of the Greece, New York Central School district, contains many, many printable organizers for notetaking as well as for reading and writing skills.

Sample printables: Academic Notes, Cause and Effect, Character Bookmark, Classification Notes, Conflict Dissection, Event Mapping, Four Square Perspective . . .

 [This site was given to me by Denise Demello, library media specialist at KP.]

Janet Allen Conference Handouts Online
More Janet Allen Handouts

Here are links to some of Janet Allen's conference handouts
Great stuff here to use with kids in every CONTENT area:
Portable word walls
Wordstorming to anticipate content
Applying non-fiction reading strategies
Content Brainstorming
Concept Ladder

http://www.freerice.com

Play vocabulary game - feed the hungry. "For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger." This site is not for profit and highly addictive. Who knew making a difference could be so much fun! Link for this site can also be found on the library web site.

http://www.librarything.com

This is a really great site where people enter the titles of the books they own/have read/etc. and add "tags" to describe the books. Or, just go and add tags to the books listed. A great place to go if you like a book and want to know what other people who read that book liked. For example, if you search Eragon, you will see that others who liked Eragon also liked Artemis Fowl and Inkheart.

http://www.ipl.org/div/news

At this site read newspapers from around the world here.