Teaching Reading: Reading in the Content Areas

Looking for book reviews? Many book reviews are available and freely accessible online. You can also search the Ebscohost databases using the search box to the right or use the JOURNALS LIST to access School Library Journal, Booklist or Publishers Weekly.

Looking for leveling information? The following links will give you lexile and/or grade level information. 

There are two kinds of Lexile measures:

• the Lexile reader measure - Students receive a Lexile reader measure as a score from a reading test - it describes his or her reading ability. 
• the Lexile text measure-  Books and other texts receive a Lexile text measure from a software tool called the Lexile Analyzer - it describes the book's reading demand or difficulty.

When used together, these measures can help match a reader with reading material that is at an appropriate difficulty

(taken from https://lexile.desk.com)

Looking for recommendations? Looking for curricular connections? Try the following links.

To search McKillop Library catalog for content area trade books, search your key term and juvenile literature.

For example:

Mathematics juvenile literature

Spanish juvenile literature