Aids to Materials Selection Thousands of trade books and reading materials targeted at children and young adults are published each year. Teachers are thus challenged by how and what to choose for their classroom use. In this section, we identify some sites containing criteria for materials selection and booklists suitable for students of various ages and interests. This site is produced by the Manitoba Library Association. This site, a section from Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site, provides reviews of booklists for children Pre-K to grade 9.
Readers can find reviewed books grouped by title, author, type of book, and grade level.
Some of the titles also include teaching ideas, related books, and resources in addition to the reviews. Here, we suggest three websites that both publish and offer literacy projects to K-12 students. This site exists to foster literacy, artistic expression, and cross-cultural understanding among the world's children. It includes activities for art, literacy, music, and computer skills. Four issues are published each year, and each issue includes literature-based projects for students of different grades and interests, information on innovative schools from around the world, and a teacher resource room with various lesson plans.