Language and Literacy Education
Program at Penn State
Language
and Literacy Education
This program places emphasis on work that is interdisciplinary, theoretically
rigorous, self-reflective, and contextual in the broad fields of language,
culture, and pedagogy. Faculty and students pursue issues related to culture
and power, teacher education, the social and historical construction of
literacies, and politics of (first, second and bilingual) language use,
curriculum, and policy. Research and courses are often guided by commitments
to critical inquiry and educationally and socially transformative practices.
Graduate work is organized around students' professional interests. Graduate
degrees include Ph.D., D.Ed., M.Ed. and M.S., with specialist and supervisory
certifications available.
Professional Associations
American Library Association
The ALA seeks to "provide leadership for the development, promotion
and improvement of library and information services and the profession
of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information
for all."
http://www.ala.org/
The
Association for Library Service to Children
ALSC is best known for its annual awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott
medals for the best written and best illustrated children's books of the
year, but the association has been an advocate for the literature choices
and literacy rights of children, birth through 14, for over a century.
http://www.ala.org/ALSCTemplate.cfm?Section=ALSC
Center for the Book
Established by congress, centers for the book strive to encourage interest
in reading, books and libraries in nearly every state.
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/
Center for the Improvement of Early
Reading Achievement
CIERA works to establish and improve programs working with young readers
and to strengthen early reading achievement in the United States.
http://www.ciera.org
International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions
The IFLA is a non-governmental organization based in The Hague that seeks
to represent the interests of librarians and information sciences around
the world and promote an understanding for the need of the services provided
by libraries.
http://www.ifla.org
National Council of Teachers of English
This organization is dedicated to the improvement of the teaching and
learning of English and the language arts.
http://www.ncte.org
National Institute for Literacy
This governmental organization funds "support programs and services
designed to improve the quality of literacy programs nationwide."
http://novel.nifl.gov/
National Reading Panel
This group was commissioned by congress in 1997 to assess the approaches
and styles to teaching children how to read in the United States. The
panel has completed their research, but members still present their findings
to organizations upon request.
http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/
National Research Center
on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)
CELA seeks to improve the teaching of English and language arts by researching
how curriculum, instruction and assessment function in developing high
literacy and success for students.
http://cela.albany.edu/default.htm
National Writing Project
The NWP seeks to improve the teaching of writing and learning in the nation's
schools.
http://www.writingproject.org/
Selected Reference Sources
Children's Book Prizes: An Evaluation and History of Major Awards for
Children's Books in the English-Speaking World
A comprehensive listing of children's book awards and award winners, including
runners -up and criteria for judging.
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Children's Books in Print
A listing of American children's book publishers and their current offerings.
Indexed by author, title, publisher, illustrator and distributor
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A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's
Books in English
A revised edition of one of the first critical studies of literature for
children, this book includes studies of literature from early folklore
and medieval tales to the middle of the 20th century.
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The Education Index
A periodical index of all educational publications in English organized
by subject and author.
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Index to Children's Poetry
An index of poetry organized by subject, author, title, and first line.
All volumes include more than 11,000 poems.
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Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International
A journal publishing divergent viewpoints on the same subject. Each volume
has a different focus.
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Language Teaching: The International Abstracting Journal for Language
Teachers and Applied Linguists
An abstracting journal of current research in language education. Abstracts
are grouped by broad subject categories.
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Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice
Encyclopedic entries inspired by the rapidly changing definition of literacy
aiming to provide a resource for understanding, teaching and measuring
literacy.
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Opie Collection of Children's Literature
An index and full text (black and white) representation of the entire
collection whose originals reside Oxford's Bodlein Library. Mostly British,
this fiche collection represents the entire history of the publishing
of children's books in English. About 50% of the collection is owned by
EBSL with more being added each year.
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School Library Journal's Best: A Reader for Children's, Young Adult
& School Librarians
A collection of the most important and meaningful articles to have appeared
in the School Library Journal since it began publication in 1954.
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Paterno
Something about the Author (SATA)
Also available online through the Dictionary of Literary Biography (E
Resource List), Something About the Author provides biographical information
for authors of books for children and young adults.
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Indexes and Abstracts
Children's Book Review Index
The Children's Book Review Index is useful for its coverage of reviews
written between 1965 and 1997. Find the author of books written during
those periods, the title of the book you are seeking, and see a list of
publications in which the book was reviewed. Go to the appropriate journal
or newspaper to find the review. Many of the cited periodicals can be
found in Pattee, if not owned in the Education and Behavioral Sciences
Library on the 5th floor of Paterno. A list of abbreviated journal and
newspaper titles is located in the front of every volume.
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Children's
Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database offers information about
children's books, videos, and audio books ranging from board books for
babies and toddlers to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Of the
more than 500,000 MARC format records, about 10% include full text book
reviews from well-respected sources such as KIRKUS Reviews, Science Books
& Films, and Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA).
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#CHILDLITIND
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral dissertations (and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American and European universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation pilot project. Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations since 1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.
Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DISS
Education
Abstracts Full Text (Wilson)
Education Abstracts Full Text (Wilson) covers over 625 periodicals, with indexing
from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERLEDUCABS
ERIC -- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center), is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design; and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Evidence Standards. Study reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability]; intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a particular intervention]; topic reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)
Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL) Online is the premier searchable
database of retrospective and current collections of curriculum guides,
lesson plans, frameworks, standards, and teaching practices for PreK-12,
and Adult Basic Education. Information in the database covers all disciplines,
subjects, and grade levels found in PreK through 12th grade education
and Adult Basic Education.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#KCDLONLINE
LexisNexis
Academic
This database is particularly useful for finding reviews of titles and
authors. To access full text book reviews from some of the nation's larger
newspapers, select the News category from the main screen and then select
the Arts and Sports where arts and entertainment reviews will be found.
Select book, movie, music, and play reviews from the source pull down
menu. Date ranges for the search can be adjusted, as the search requires.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ACUNIVERSE
Newspaper
Photos (AccuNet/AP Photo Archive)
AAn average of 800 state, regional, national and international photos
are added daily to the AP Photo Archives. After a year, approximately
200 of the best daily photos are retained permanently. The Photo Archive's
historical collection continues to grow, featuring images from significant
news and features events of the 20th century. The earliest photograph
available is a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1844. Permitted
uses of these images include: 1. printing copies for educational and research
use; 2. creating PowerPoint presentations, slides, and multimedia presentations
when usage is confined to the licensed institution; 3. posting on a secure
web site available only to authorized users; 4.e-mailing single images
to an individual e-mail recipient.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PHOTOARCHIVE
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators
and librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full
text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text
dating as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education
pamphlets, a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text
for scholarly monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
ProQuest Psychology
Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals: A full text database subset of PsycINFO,
including 400 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage
is typically from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage
does not presently include APA journals; additions to coverage occur frequently.)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/entry/psycinfo.html
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines,
is a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present,
from 1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides
full text, searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals
published by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and
links to non-APA full text journals owned in electronic format by the
University Libraries. Related subject areas included education, organizational
management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental
psychology, human factors engineering, sociology, business, law and more.
Published by the American Psychological Association.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCHOVID
Social Science
Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It covers 1400 social science journals.
The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular
publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author
or publication. The index can also be used to find related articles (articles
that have at least one reference in common).
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SSCINDEX
Sociological Abstracts
Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other
Social Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international
in scope.
Coverage: 1963-present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCABS
Selected Journals
Book Links
Book Links is a Booklist Publication, an imprint of the American Library
Association. This bimonthly journal seeks to connect books, libraries,
and classrooms. Selections and back-issue ordering are available online.
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http://www.ala.org/ala/productsandpublications/periodicals/booklinks/booklinks.htm
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
Bookbird is the journal of the International Board on Books for Young
People (IBBY).
journals@utpress.utoronto.ca
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Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books
Published since 1947, Penn State has holdings beginning with Volume 11
in 1957. While publishing 11 issues per year, the Bulletin prints about
750 reviews of children's books each year.
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Subscription information can be found at:
http://bccb.lis.uiuc.edu/
Children's
Literature Association Quarterly
A publication of the Children's Literature Association, the journal is
not available online in full-text, but further information can be found
at its website.
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http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/
This quarterly journal seeks to "promote lively discussion of poetry and prose for children and young adults" through peer-reviewed articles. It is available through Kluwer Online.
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http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0045-6713
Horn Book Guide to Children's
and Young Adult Books
Published twice a year, the Horn Book Guide evaluates all hard cover children's
books published in the United States, and in addition to a 60 to 75-word
review, gives each book a numerical rating from 1 (outstanding) and to
6 (poor). The Horn Book Guide is an excellent source for finding reviews
of books in hand published between 1989 and today. It is also an excellent
resource for finding recommended books by subject, and then searching
the CAT to find if Penn State owns the recommended titles. The Education
and Behavioral Sciences Library holds a paper copy behind the desk (1989-2000)
and in the Z1037 section of our stacks. The Education and Behavioral Sciences
Library also owns a CD version of The Horn Book Guide on a specially marked
computer workstation covering the years 1990 through 1998.
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http://www.hornbookguide.com/
Horn Book Magazine
Contains reviews from its first issue in 1924 through today. Known as
a "positive review" journal, typically the selection of a book
for review is considered an achievement since only about 350 books are
reviewed annually within the six bi-monthly issues.
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A cumulative index to the magazine, the Horn Book Index covers 1924 through
1989, the year the Horn Book Guide began.
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Selections from the current issue, and subscription information can be
found at:
http://www.hbook.com/
Journal
of Children's Literature
A journal of the Children's Literature Assembly of the National Council
of Teachers of English, the Journal of Children's Literature is published
twice a year and is indexed through ERIC.
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http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=403&TS=1024705663
Journal of Youth Services
in Libraries: JOYS
Published through the ALA, JOYS was the official publication of the Association
of Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services
Association (YALSA) from 1987 through 2002. It was published quarterly
and limited amounts of its content can be accessed online. Prior to 1987,
it was Top of the News (1942 through 1987, located in the Annex). JOYS
was replaced by Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association
for Library Service to Children (Spring 1993)and Young Adult Library Services:
The Journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association (Fall 1993).
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JYSL/
The Lion and the Unicorn
The Lion and the Unicorn is a critical journal of children's literature
published three times a year by Johns Hopkins University Press. It is
available on-line through Project MUSE.
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http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/
The
New Advocate
From Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, The
New Advocate is published quarterly, and is for those involved with young
people and their literature.
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School
Library Journal
Published monthly and containing about 2500 reviews annually, nearly half
of the children's books published in the United States each year. Media
and software are also evaluated. University Park holds issues of SLJ from
1994 to the present.
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Selections from the current issue, and subscription information can be
found at http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?publication=slj
Voice of Youth Advocates
(VOYA)
The library magazine serving those who serve young adults, VOYA is indexed
in Library Literature, Science Fiction Index, Book Review Index and Current
Journals in Education (via ERIC). It is published bimonthly and can be
accessed online.
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http://www.voya.com/
Resources for Language and Literacy Education
Children's Book Council
This resource contains links to authors' and illustrators' sites, as well
as information on books for preschoolers through eighth-graders.
http://www.cbcbooks.org/
Children's
Literature Web Guide (CLWG)
An ambitious endeavor to "gather together and categorize the growing
number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults;"
includes a compilation of annual children's book awards.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Choices Booklists
This site features booklists chosen by Young Adult, Children, and Teachers.
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices.html
The Independent School Entrance
Examination (ISEE) Practice Test Prep Review
This is a site that provides information and free online practice tests
to assist ISEE test takers. http://www.testprepreview.com
ISLMC
Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Meet the Author
Updated daily, this site offers readers a chance to view videos of authors
introducing books in their own words.
http://www.meettheauthor.com/
The Reading Corner
This is a site full of information on Young Adult literature, including
reader-written reviews of books.
http://www.carr.org/read/YA.htm
Young Adult Library Services Association
(YALSA)
YALSA, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has many
resources available, including booklists.
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/
Young
Adult Literature
This guide of Young Adult Literature is from Yahoo!.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Young_Adult/