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Quebec Teachers Read
- a blog for our community on books for the classroom and books about the classroom

Reading Profiles: Four bibliographies developed by Joan Wasserman, English Language Arts consultant of Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. These bibliographies offer solutions, strategies and reading suggestions for young male and female readers and young adult male and female readers. These are pdf files and will download to your computer.

For young adult male and young adult female readers

Reading Profiles: Solutions and Strategies for the Young Adult Female Reader

English Language Arts and Social Sciences Bibliography: This site was facilitated by Pat Machin, Research Consultant, and Diana Kinach, Education Specialist, Riverside School Board. It was funded by a MELS (Québec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sport) Professional Development grant and an ELA Site-based grant (Abigail Anderson - MELS DGFJ)
An English Language Arts and Social Sciences Bibliography for High School Students and Teachers: This is a comprehensive list of titles that will be added to and updated regularly. It was created by Judith Elson, Jens Holm, Nadine Maglia, and Rosemary Tucci, four Riverside School Board teachers from Centennial Regional High School, Greenfield Park who spent many hours doing what they loved to do - haunting libraries, book stores and web sites and reading books. The importance of this site lies in the detailed descriptions they wrote for each text.

Teaching Young Adult Literature: Sharing the Connection: Jean E. Brown and Elaine C. Stephens Toronto: Wadsworth Publishing Company/An International Thompson Publishing Company. 1995. ISBN: 0-534-19938-0; This text is recommended by Abigail Anderson, MELS English Language Arts Curriculum Coordinator. It is in print & can be ordered from Amazon.ca.
Stenhouse Publishers - Complete Books to Read On-Line: Stenhouse Publishers offers a number of complete professional reference books on-line. New titles are posted on-line in their entirety for six months. After that, you can read the introduction and first chapter of each book. Most of the books are directly relevant to literacy and English Language Arts. Chapters are downloadable as read only PDF files. Visit the home page to link to a title index, an author index, book extracts and video clips. Extensive information has been provided and may lead to purchasing if you wish.

The Book Ladies' List of Students' Favourites: Created by Louise Bourque and Gwen Johnston, Kahnawake Survival School, Québec/2001. Louise and Gwen are referred to as "The Book Ladies" as a result of their enthusiasm for sharing resources with members of the Secondary Language Arts Advisory Council. It was natural that a colleague referred to them when asked for book suggestions for teenagers. As a result, a list of suggestions was created and shared once again with the committee. Louise and Gwen have graciously offered to make their list available to a wider audience using this website.

NCTE Publications Catalog: Books recommended by the National Council of teachers of English