Child Development
Reading to very young children
Reading to Babies, Toddlers and Young Children: The Why? The What? And the How?
http://www.fcctf.org/pdf%20files/Parenting%20info%20pdfs/Reading%20to%20Babies%20and%20Toddlers.pdf
This five page article provides data supporting the importance of reading to infants, how to select books for preschoolers and tips for creating an atmosphere conducive to creating life-long readers.
Why Babies Need Books
http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/why-babies-need-books
This blog features rotating articles updating parents on the importance of books for preschoolers.
Reading Problems = Juvenile Delinquency
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/Leone.htm
Articles by and interviews with professor of special education from the University of Maryland.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/jj.delinq.read.probs.htm
Paper presented at Mayo Clinic on the correlation between reading difficulties and juvenile delinquency.
Fact sheet on the importance of reading to infants and young children
http://www.furtherbeyond.com/articles/read%20to%20kids.htm
Includes a bibliography for further study
Tips for reading with infants and toddlers
http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_key_language_literacytips
http://www.highreach.com/highreach_cms/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2rqFTwK4BnY%3D&tabid=105
http://www.nea.org/grants/13330.htm
http://library.adoption.com/articles/sharing-books-with-your-infant-or-toddler.html
Language development in children
http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/child-development/language_development.shtml
This site includes a chart of normal language development for children.
Universal sight words for K-2nd grade
http://www.molineschools.org/grade_level_shared.html
This links to the Moline District web page > For Staff > grade level shared > Universal sight words. One can select the grade and view the words as a check sheet, flash cards, or shape cards.
University of Illinois Extension site for early childhood.
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/nibbles/
Data base for book awards for literature for children
Information on awards including a calendar for announcement of the latest winners.
Bibliotherapy
Lesson plan for selecting books to address a particular issue in a student’s life
http://clpgh.org/research/parentseducators/parents/bibliotherapy/
A bibliography of book suggestions for many childhood issues
http://librarybooklists.org/fiction/children/jbibliotherapy.htm
Another bibliography