Research Guides: Education Research Guide: EDUC 315

BOOK SELECTION TOOLS

CLCD This link opens in a new window A database of children's books and media, including reviews. Also, includes awards and reading lists for items reviewed.

Teaching Books Instructional materials, short movies, audiobook readings, book discussion guides, and other resources about children’s and young adult books and their authors and illustrators
Children's Book Awards
Diversity in Children's Literature Resources

Specific book searches [Curriculum Library]

How to Conduct an Interactive Read Aloud video tutorials

CITATION HELP

APA guide
RefWorks RefWorks citation manager is available for all current students, faculty, and staff. Citation management software helps keep track of what references you are using and assists with citing them. RefWorks can output your reference list in many citation styles, including MLA, APA, Turabian, and others. It is important to verify that your reference list is in the correct format, as RefWork's generated citations may not always exactly match your specific requirements.
JFL Refworks video tutorial
APA Style help for citing the Bible

EXAMPLES for citing references to or documents related to the Virginia STANDARDS OF LEARNING:

Virginia Department of Education. (2019). Virginia science standards of learning curriculum framework 2018. https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/
showpublisheddocument/30072/638046463677870000

Virginia Department of Education. (2017). Standards of learning documents for English. https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/k-12-standards-instruction/english-reading-literacy/standards-of-learning/

Virginia Department of Education. (2017). English standards of learning for Virginia public schools. https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/
2756/637982391208400000

Standards

Designing learning experiences

UDL Guidelines THis is a link to the webpage with an interactive form of the UDL Guidelines. These guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on the neuroscience of learning.
Key Questions to Consider When Planning Lessons A pdf version of the UDL Guidelines that represents each Guideline in the form of a question

LEVELING HELP

CLCD This link opens in a new window A database of children's books and media, including reviews. Also, includes awards and reading lists for items reviewed.

Lexile "Find a Book"
Fry Readability calculator The FRY GRAPH CALCULATOR will automatically score the readability of your text and plot the points on a graph. The tool is used to determine how hard a text is to read. It considers the number of words in a sentence and the number of syllables in a word. By plotting these two factors on a graph, you can see the reading level needed to grasp a text. The graph is widely used by educators, researchers, and publishers to gauge the difficulty of text and to ensure it's targeted to age-appropriate readers. (from website)
Scholastic Book Wizard (vendor)
AR Book Find Accelerated Reader Once you locate a book from this source, look for "BL" which stands for Book Level (grade level).
Booksource (vendor)
Booksource's Reading LEVEL Chart
Reading Level Conversion Chart (Lexile, Fountas & Pinnell, ATOS)
Lexile grade level charts
Microsoft's tools for readability and level statistics A user can employ Microsoft word to enter text and use the features for checking the spelling and grammar and then choose to display information about the reading level of the document. This includes readability scores from the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level test and Flesch Reading Ease test.
Readabilty Catalog of Project Gutenberg eBooks
Reading A-Z customizable reading Level Correlation Chart "This correlation chart illustrates how Learning A-Z levels approximately correlate to other leveling systems commonly found in leveled reading materials. The Learning A-Z Text Leveling System in English and Spanish uses objective (quantitative) and subjective (qualitative) leveling criteria to measure text complexity. Teachers should use their professional judgment of additional qualitative criteria along with reader and task considerations to determine if an individual book at a given level is appropriate for a student." [from website]
Lexile ANALYZER The Lexile Analyzer® in the Lexile® & Quantile® Hub allows subscribers to paste or type in text to receive a Lexile range and view text characteristics along with challenging words and their definitions. The Lexile Analyzer measures the complexity of the text by analyzing characteristics such as sentence length and word frequency. Generally, longer sentences and words of lower frequency lead to higher Lexile measures; shorter sentences and words of higher frequency lead to lower Lexile measures. Texts such as lists, recipes, poetry and song lyrics are not analyzed because they lack conventional punctuation. (from website)

Classroom Library Analysis

Blog article: "12 Essential Questions to Help Expand Classroom Libraries" Scott, L. (2022, August 11,). 12 Essential Questions to Help Expand Classroom Libraries. https://www.hameraypublishing.com/blogs/all/12-essential-questions-to-help-expand-classroom-libraries
Blog article: "13 Questions to Ask When Choosing New Books for Classroom Libraries" Booksource. (2023, April 20,). 13 Things to Consider When Choosing Books for Classroom Libraries. https://www.booksourcebanter.com/2023/04/20/choosing-books-for-classroom-libraries/
Book excerpt" "Ask yourself these questions when evaluating your classroom library" (see page 3) A pdf from Routmann, R. (2003). Organize an Outstanding Classroom Library. Reading essentials (pp. 63-77). Heinmann. Retrieved from: https://www.regieroutman.com/inresidence/clientarea/cnctn/session5/1PROrganizeOutstandingClassroomLibrary.pdf