Resource Guide:
Teaching Elementary Reading
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Reading
- Reading—Color aids
- Reading (Elementary)
- Reading—Phonetic method
- Reading research
- Teaching methods
- Primary education
- Elementary education
- Early childhood education
- Literacy
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Reading comprehension
- Spelling ability
- Word recognition
- Reading interests of children
- Reading readiness
- Alphabets
- Initial teaching alphabet
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Reading Improvement
- Journal of Reading Education
- Reading
- The Reading Teacher
- Journal of Research in Reading
- Reading Research Quarterly
- Reading Research and Instruction
- Literacy
- Journal of Literacy Research
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Reading Instruction That Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching | LB 1573 .P72 2002 |
| Reading to Learn: Lessons from Exemplary Fourth-Grade Classrooms | LB 1573 .A47 2002 |
| What really matters for struggling readers : designing research-based programs | LB 1050.5 .A45 2001 |
| Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding | LB 1573.7 .H37 2000 |
| Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment | LB 1050 .W35 2000 |
| Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice | LB 1576 .H333 1991 |
| The Alphabet Connection: A Parent’s and Teacher’s Guide to Beginning Reading and Writing | LB 1050 .M343 |
| Handbook of Teaching Early Reading: More Than Phonics | eBook (2015) |
| What Teachers Need to Know About Spelling | eBook (2002) |
| Spelling: Approaches to Teaching and Assessment | eBook (2005) |
| Children’s Reading Comprehension and Assessment | eBook (2005) |
| Teaching Reading: Effective Schools, Accomplished Teachers | eBook (2002) |