Monte Rio Union School District

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Reading Lists

K-12 California Reading Lists

California Department of Education Recommended Literature K-12 List

Elementary

Children’s Literature Web Guide
Literature lists, reviews, book awards, best sellers, authors, reader’s theater, and teaching ideas. (K-8)

Kidsreads.com
Outstanding places for students to find information about their favorite books, series, authors and characters.

Meet the Author and Illustrator
Information on authors and illustrators, with links to their websites.

Dr. Seuss and Read Across-America Day
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.

Aesop’s Fables
An on-line collection 655 of the famous fables, including some with pictures and audio versions.

(K-2) Big6 Strategies
For problem solving and research. Use these three steps to find answers and make decisions. Based on the Big6 Research strategies used in high school.

(3-6) Big6 Strategies
Use these six steps to find, organize and use information, whether it is for a research paper or a real-life problem.

Noodletools
Bibliography format quick information on how to create a bibliography for any source of information.

Middle School

Writing a Bibliography The Citation Machine
A handy tool to use for creating proper bibliographic entries for any resource cited.

The Reading Corner
Want to find out some information about some good books? Lists of Caldecott, Newbery, fiction, nonfiction, author information all available with descriptions to help decide what to read next.

Poetry
Full text poems by famous poets, arranged alphabetically. Includes links to other online poetry resources.

(7-12) Big6
Strategies Use these six steps to find, organize and use information, whether for a research paper or a real-life problem. Basic steps to preparing for high school research projects.

Teenreads.com
Outstanding place for students to find information about their favorite books, series, authors and characters. Reviews of the newest titles, in-depth author profiles, interviews, announcements of book awards, games, puzzles, contests and opportunities for readers to write book reports and post ideas.

Writing a Bibliography
The Citation Machine is a handy tool to use for creating proper bibliographic entries for any resource cited.

Big6 Strategies
Use these six steps to find, organize and use information, whether for a research paper or a real-life problem. Basic steps to information literacy.