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This link will take you to the result list from Reading Rockets with multiple strategies to support phonological awareness.

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Our library provides effective, research-based classroom strategies to help strengthen your students’ skills in phonological awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

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Elkonin Boxes are a great strategy to use with students developing those beginning reading/writing skills. Use this for students to determine the sounds or the number of sounds in a word. This provides good practice for segmenting and blending along with building letter/sound knowledge.

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Blachman, B. A., Ball, E. W., Black, R., & Tangel, D. M. (2000). Road to the code: A phonological awareness program for young children. Baltimore: Brookes.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction (NIH Publication No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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Elkonin boxes are used to build phonological awareness skills by having children segment spoken words into their individual sounds (phonemes). To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme.

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Elkonin Boxes Implemented in a Small Group

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Elkonin Boxes Implemented in a Small Group

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The Ramped Up Read Aloud by Maria P. Walther

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The Ramped Up Read Aloud by Maria P. Walther

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This is a fantastic professional development book for educators to dive into! Maria Walther provides ideas for 101 of the most popular picture books to spark conversation among students. Discussion points can range from the notices and questions student have, features of the print or parts of the book, vocabulary, illustrations, language, story elements, themes, and more. The book puts books into the following categories: classroom community, fiction elements, fiction comprehension, nonfiction comprehension, foundational and language skills, and writing. There are guides for before, during, and after reading along with lists of similar titles with each read aloud. Each ramped up read aloud is also aligned with specific learning targets!

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Technology, Reading, & Digital Literacy: Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader by L. Robert Furman

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Technology, Reading, & Digital Literacy: Strategies to Engage the Reluctant Reader by L. Robert Furman

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Teachers are always working to get their students reading. This can be extremely challenging when a student is struggling or reluctant to read in the first place. This book shares a variety of digital resources and tools for students to get engaged and excited about reading broken into chapters on finding, discussing, and sharing books and ending with fluency.

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This page from the International Literacy Association presents the recipients of children's and young adult book awards. The years able to be viewed include 2015-2023 winners. These awards are given to newly published authors, so it is a great place for teachers to find new books to add to their classroom library!

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Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards | International Literacy Association

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The International Literacy Association celebrates new juvenile literature authors with the annual Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards.

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2021 ILA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards Winners

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2021 ILA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards Winners

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Announcing the 2021 ILA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards Winners

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This link takes you to the International Literacy Association's page with current Choices Reading Lists. These books are read and voted on by thousands of children across the country. You can view multiple lists of books from the archives as well.

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Choices: A Brief History

In 1974, the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association) and the Children's Book Council (CBC) launched Children's Choices: an annotated list of high-quality books written for readers in grades K-6 (ages 5-12). For more than four decades, approximately 12,500 children from different regions of the United States read hundreds of new titles donated by North American publishers and selected up to 100 of their favorites for inclusion on the reading list.

Sister projects Young Adults' Choices and Teachers' Choices were introduced in 1986 and 1989, respectively; the former highlighted approximately 30 books for teenagers, while the latter identified the same number rated by teachers, school librarians, and reading specialists as outstanding for curriculum use.

A New Beginning

The three lists served as trusted and anticipated resources until 2020, when the COVID-19 virus created conditions that rendered the volunteer-driven project untenable. As a result, ILA paused the program for the first time before ultimately deciding to rehome it with long-term cosponsor CBC.

In May 2022, CBC announced that it was relaunching the reading lists under a new name: Favorites. The inaugural set of lists -Children's Favorites, Young Adult Favorites, Teacher Favorites, and Librarian Favorites-were released in spring 2023.

Learn more about the Favorites Lists.

Choices Archives

ILA members may obtain archived lists by contacting choices@reading.org. The three most recent reading list booklets-each an annotated compilation of all three Choices lists-may be accessed by anyone through the links below.

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The Choices reading lists once produced by the International Literacy Association (ILA) have shifted over to the project's former cosponsor, the Children's Book Council, and have been rebranded as the Favorites Lists. Visit the CBC's website for more information.

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Give Students Access to Reading Material for FREE!

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Give Students Access to Reading Material for FREE!

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Check out this page from the National Education Association for a great list of places for free book access for students.

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First Book
First Book is a non-profit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs serving children in need, from birth to age 18. The benefits of registering with First Book include free books from the First Book National Book Bank, low-cost books and resources from the First Book Marketplace at 50-90 percent off retail price, and potential funding from First Book's corporate partners and generous donors.

Literacy Empowerment Foundation
Literacy Empowerment Foundation's Reading Resource Project offers free books to recipients who can pay shipping, handling, and administrative costs. Reading Resource Project books come in sets of 100 books per set and any literacy-based effort qualifies for these books. You do not have to be a school or teacher to qualify.

Little Free Library
Little Free Library is a place to find a book or bring a book to share! Find Little Free Libraries in neighborhoods all over the world, all with different offerings. Anyone may take a book or bring a book to share. Through its Impact Library Program, Little Free Library provides no-cost Little Free Library book exchanges to communities where books are scarce.

Free Books to Read Online

Free Audiobooks and Video Read Alouds

KidLit TV
Children can experience authors and illustrators reading their works through KidLit TV's Read Out Loud program, which includes an array of titles featuring diverse people and cultures. Find more read-alouds, plus podcasts, activity ideas, book trailers, and more at their award-winning website.

Storyline Online
At Storyline Online, SAG-AFTRA Foundation records well-known actors reading children's books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can enjoy favorite stories, such as The Kissing Hand, A Bad Case of Stripes, and Stellaluna.

Book Distribution Programs

Additional Resources

In Search of Free Books, Reading Rockets' roundup of sources for free and low-cost books.

Where to Find Free Audiobooks and Digital Text-to-Speech Books for Your Child from Understood.

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Need help finding books to put into the hands of readers? Check out these resources and bring print and online books to qualifying schools and students.

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Create an Epic account to give students access to over 40,000 books and videos for them to read!

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners

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Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners

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This page has strategies for every area of literacy, including phonemic awareness. There is great information and ideas here to specifically support those who have English as a second language.

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Reading 101 for English Language Learners

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Get the basics on how to support the literacy achievement of your English language learners. You'll find instructional strategies based on the five components of reading as well as oral language and the role of students' home language.Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages

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Reading Rockets is an amazing resource to support literacy. This specific page includes their classroom strategy library. Choose an area of literacy from comprehension, fluency, phonological awareness, phonics, print awareness, spelling, vocabulary, and writing or just scroll to find the strategy that best fits your area of need. Each strategy page has instructions, implementation videos, templates and examples, ideas for differentiation, research, and suggested books.

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Our library provides effective, research-based classroom strategies to help strengthen your students' skills in phonological awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

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Flipgrid is a tool that allows students to communicate and interact through video recording. Teachers can create a "grid" in which students respond to a prompt or students can access public grids to respond to or watch responses from others around the world. This is a great tool to support learners with speaking and listening while also building communication skills. It's also great for struggling writers or even English Language Learners to communicate what they know Flipgrid has an infinite amount of possibilities for use!

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Lexia Core5 Reading is a tool that provides guided, targeted instruction of beginning reading skills. Students follow a learning path tailored to their specific areas of growth and teachers can monitor their student's progress. A purchased license is required.

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Elementary school years are a pivotal time for reading development, serving as the foundation for learning across all subjects. However, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) consistently shows that approximately 60% of fourth-grade students are not reaching reading proficiency and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened disparities in educational opportunities. Without focused instruction, these children will face even greater challenges in achieving literacy.

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Literacy Acceleration for Students in Grades PreK-5 | Lexia Learning

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Scholastic News is a website that gives access to virtual articles on a wide range of topics across grade levels. It provides nonfiction magazines with information aligned with specific standards while also including discussion and comprehension questions and reflection activities. With a school's subscription purchase, teachers also get physical copies of several magazines each month.

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Scholastic News Edition 3 | Current Nonfiction for Grade 3

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Students love it. Teachers need it. Scholastic News magazine builds knowledge and reading skills with current, on-level nonfiction JUST for grade 3.

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Classkick is a tool that opens doors and crosses barriers for students! This website allows teachers to create Classkicks that could include texts, questions, places for student responses, and more. Teachers can record texts and questions to be read to students. Students can then write, draw, type, record, or drag and drop to respond! A free account gives teachers the ability to make up to twenty Classkicks and a school subscription allows for unlimited Classkicks. Teachers can also share Classkicks they create with colleagues.

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SplashLearn is a website that offers additional practice of literacy skills. Teachers can assign assessments and tasks that are linked to specific reading, writing, and language standards. Students can complete assignments, follow their learning path aligned to their specific needs, and find practice games. Tasks are presented in an engaging, game-like format. Creating an account is free and you can create your own class through Clever in order for students to have easy access and teachers to monitor their progress.

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SplashLearn: Fun Math & ELA Program for PreK-Grade 5

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SplashLearn is an award-winning learning program loved by over 40 million kids for engaging Math and ELA practice. Aligned with Common Core and various state standards.

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