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The perfect companion to your classroom library or a great way to create a library from scratch! Here are guides to children's books to meet every library or teaching need with: 
Search for guides by author, title, topic, teaching use, genre, and more!
Noted teacher/author Lucy Calkins and colleagues have created the most comprehensive and accessible leveled lists and guides for nearly 1,200 children's trade books for kindergarten through sixth grade. Their purpose: to help you build a state-of-the-art classroom library, using guides exactly tailored to the classroom in which you teach. Not simply book lists, these 2- to 4-page guides to each book are packed with practical information. Put the recommended books together and the resulting libraries are far richer than any you could create on your own. To learn about the core books and modules the authors regard as essential for a particular grade range, click on How To Use This Site. To go directly to the guides, click on a letter. The authors have leveled about sixty percent of the 150+/- books in each grade range, leaving room for teachers and/or students to choose appropriate books by comparison with leveled titles. To make the Field Guides work even better for you, they can be purchased as complete bound books OR as pages you can select and print from your own computer. Or Heinemann can print what you want for you. Here's how it works: 
2- to 4-page guides—pick and print from your own computer! For teachers or reading specialists wanting information on specific books with summaries, literary insights, and teaching tips, these 2- to 4- page guides are just right—and available for purchasing and printing ONLINE. Click on Search Field Guides for books by grade level, topic, or title; view and order the guides you want; then print out from your own computer. Get just the information you need—it's easy, convenient, and inexpensive! $ .15 per guide / Minimum charge per order: $5.00 2- to 4-page guides—pick and have Heinemann print for you! Get the guides that you want—just like above—but let us print them for you. Especially recommended to teachers or reading specialists wanting information on numbers of books within or across grade levels. Click on Search Field Guides for books by grade level, topic, or title; view abstracts of the guides you want; then Heinemann will print and deliver them to you. Guides come three-hole punched for insertion into a standard three-ring binder. $ .35 per guide / Minimum charge per order: $20.00 Bound books A Field Guide to the Classroom Library is also available in bound volumes, one for each of seven grade ranges. Each of the seven volumes consists of 150+/- guides of two to four pages for each recommended book—all of them appropriate to that specific grade range. Authoritative and comprehensive, every Field Guide is a perfect companion to a classroom teacher's library or a great way to create a library from scratch!
Seven-volume set of Field Guides A-G Purchase Field Guides A-G as a set—seven bound volumes in all—and SAVE more than 10%! Ideal for schools, districts, and reading specialists wanting complete information on books across the grade levels. Note: 10% discount for ordering online applies only to the bound Field Guides A-G and the seven-volume set. The Field Guides to Your Classroom Library project is a philanthropic effort. According to the wishes of the scores of contributors, all royalties from the sale of these field guides will be given entirely back to the project in the continued effort to put powerful, beautiful, and thoughtfully-chosen literature into the hands of children. |
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A Field Guide to Your Classroom Library, Lucy Calkins and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project,
Heinemann © 2002, Teachers College, Columbia University;
http://www.heinemann.com/fieldguides