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Cooperative Learning in Language Art
A collection of essays providing both practical ideas and theory for teachers at all grade levels who seek to implement or improve small-group learning in the language arts classroom.

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Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts
organized in five sections including theoretical bases for English language arts teaching and methods of research on English language arts teaching
Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
Knowledge about literacy teaching and learning in grades PreK-8. Presents recommendations for best practices that can be tailored to fit specific classroom circumstances and student populations.
Handbook of Early Literacy Research
Addresses broad questions about the nature of emergent literacy, summarizing current knowledge on cognitive pathways, biological underpinnings, and the importance of cultural contexts.
Multiple intelligences of reading and writing
This video shows teachers using activities to help students develop literacy skills through their bodily kinesthetic, spatial, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences.

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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties. It also covers curriculum instruction, policy, administration, and related social issues. It includes journal articles, conference papers, books and monographs. Availability: Bibliographic citations and full-text Date Coverage: ---- provides full text for more than 2,000 journals back to 1936, and includes conference papers, books and monographs back to 1972.
ERIC This link opens in a new window Sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the national bibliographic database of education literature. Consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Covers journals and unpublished documents. Contains citations to research reports, teaching guides, conference papers, books and journal articles. Availability: Bibliographic citations and selected full-text Date Coverage: 1966 to present Hints: ERIC's EDs are available in Full Text on microfilm/ Audiovisual section / Jafet Library
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary database that supports research in more than 160 subject areas covering arts and humanities, business and management, health and medicine, science and technology, and social sciences. It includes scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, market reports and videos. Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1905 to present
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science, an authoritative and multidisciplinary citation database, allows searching of core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes current and retrospective coverage dating to 1900. Also features "cited reference" search capabilities. Availability: Bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1900 to present

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Internet links

Educational Songs

Songs for Teaching
offer thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.
Reading: Language Arts
Alphabet & Phonics
Children's Literature
Reading Comprehension

Book Talk

Nancy J. Keane's Children's Webpage
A place to visit when you are looking for ready-to-use booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children or other information about children's literature

Internat Archives

Children's Library
Books for children from around the world
Old Time Radio: Children Series
Educational Films: Children
This collection features educational films from a variety of sources