Busy teachers often don't have the time to keep up with recent children's literature. Core Library books are carefully selected to provide high-quality children's literature for small group, paired or independent classroom reading - with 'support'!
Support for Teachers
- Forty high-quality pieces of children's literature selected for classroom discussion
- Book synopses and likely student responses
- Probing questions for students
- Activities across Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Support for Students
- Booktalks and conversations help develop students' understanding of book features and literary themes
- Student Bookmarks
- guide students to think and respond to what they read
- prepare students for Reading Conversations
Each Core Library includes:
- 40 titles
- from a range of Australian and international publishers
- a range of reading levels and interests
- a mixture of picture books, chapter books and information texts - depending on level
- 40 x 4 Student Bookmarks
- 1 Teacher's Guide includes:
- Classroom organisation and assessment
- Teacher Booktalks
- Reading Conversation notes - including likely student responses
For users of The Lexile Framework, titles are Lexiled and have Lexile Quizzes. The comprehension activities on the Student Bookmark are open-ended responses and supplement the Online Quizzes.
