What is literatureplace.com?

literatureplace.com is a place where teachers, parents, and young readers have the tools to interact with books from preschool through young adult readers.  

It is a place for people who ...

• value the use of trade books in their classrooms and in their children's lives.
• recognize the importance of quality books as central to the foundation of a balanced literacy program.
• use a variety of instructional resources to support the reading of whole books.
• have ownership of the book selection process and are looking for award-winning books to add to their reading lists.
• seek opportunities for professional growth. 
• view the Internet as an important instructional resource. 

It is a place where the technology of the Internet and  the wonder of reading books are merged to transform the classroom or the home into a literature place.

Young readers respond positively to reading wherever there exists a collection of wonderful books and an atmosphere that fosters a love for books.  literatureplace.com is an attitude, a mindset; it is any place - the home, the classroom, the library, and the schoolyard - where teachers, parents, students interact with books.  Good teachers know that teaching children how to read is the first step toward engaging children in reading good literature.  The next step is to make the classroom a literature place, a place where books are ubiquitous and cherished, a place where teachers and students have the resources and the technology to support their interactions with books.  

It is a place that offers to visitors access to its database of award-winning books, and to educators an annual site-based subscription to its vast and dynamic collection of literature-based resources.

literatureplace.com uses the Internet to give subscribers a multitude of instructional options that will supplement and support a literacy initiative in the classroom through the use of trade books.  Whether trade books are used as the basis for a reading/language arts program, as a supplement to an existing program, as an after school program, or as a summer program, literatureplace.com provides its member subscribers with access to thousands of literature-related activities and events.  An annual subscription to literatureplace.com will enable every teacher within a school site to have unlimited access to our two databases their vast collection of online resources for the classroom.  Full access to our site opens up a world of teaching and learning experiences that can be used to turn each user site into a literature place.