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by Claire Pollok
If you are looking for ideas, activities, and multimedia resources to enhance your child’s reading experience and language art skills, Teachingbooks is an excellent place to start. 
It is like the “Google for Reading”. Infact, Teachingbooks has done the Google search for you and collected a wealth of sites to support a vast away of fiction and nonfiction books by linking you to thousands of resources and multimedia programs. Short movies, audio book readings, and book discussion guides are some of the rich learning resources available through HCOS’s subscription to Teachingbooks.
Included with Teachingbooks are audio clips of authors, being interviewed, or introducing their books, and even some reading their books. This is great for helping your literary student understand more about the book they are reading, and gives them some biographical information. You have a choice to look up novel study guides, summaries, book guides and thematic book lists. The novel study guides are downloadable under the novel study area or linking you to an internet site.
For example if one enters “Charlotte’s Web” under a Title search category one would find author programs, book guides, and readings. The links connect you to novel studies, activities, discussion topics, and more....You can search under title, subject, and author.
Remember Teachingbook supports informative books as well.
If you need reading lists/book awards or British Columbia/Canadian novel studies, then the Reading List Resources is for you:
http://www.teachingbooks.net/quicksearch.cgi
To watch a video on how to use the subscription go to http://www.teachingbooks.net/show.cgi?f=training.
How does one get access to this excellent subscription? Easy! Contact your HCOS support teacher for a username and password.