1. Belonging, bullying, shyness, peer pressure, prejudice, physical challenges, courage, getting along, coping with change, conflict resolution, taking a stand, having the courage to be different, friendship, family relationships, inter-generational relationships, perspective, growing up, decision making, truthfulness
2. Themes that Link Language and Guidance and Health
3. Texts for Read- Alouds, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, and Independent Reading
3.1. Texts can be selected from annotated list of children's book review websites (given as different heading here) that describe appropriate and high quality texts for junior students
4. Texts for Cross-Curricular Literacy Instruction
4.1. Texts that Link Language and the Arts
4.1.1. Biographies, How- to books, Poetry based on aspects of the arts, Books about musical instruments, musical styles, music through the ages, famous works of art, artist's styles and/or techniques, genres in art, archtecture, types of dance, signs and symbols, cartooning, illusion, advertising
4.2. Texts that Link Language and Social Studies, Science and Mathematics
4.2.1. Memoirs/biographies, Folk tales, short stories, poetry, picture books, author studies, historical fiction, science fiction, alphabet books, brain teasers, Guinness book of world recordsDavid Macaulay's books, books about kid inventors, human rights, the immigrant experience, war art/artists, art from certain period of history
5. Mentor Texts
5.1. Any text form can be used as a mentor text, that can be used by teachers to introduce students to a new strategy, literary device or text feature.
6. Manipulatives to support Literacy Learners
6.1. Language-based Activities
6.2. Games Centre
6.2.1. Word games like Scrabble, Boggle, and Spill and Spell, Crossword Puzzles, and Word search and other games
7. Autobiography, Biography, Memoir
7.1. Magazine and newspaper articles, research reports, critical reviews, essays, diaries or journals
8. Picture books, chapter books, poetry books, novels, short stories, plays, biographies, histories, text books, nature books, newspapers, posters, magazines, print advertisements
9. Dual language books, Magazines, Instruction Manuals, Picture books, Comic books, Graphic novels, Books on tape, and Non fiction texts
10. Categories of Texts (Forms and Genre)
10.1. Fiction
10.2. Non- Fiction
10.3. Genre that comprises of Variety of literary compositions
10.4. Poetry
10.4.1. Multimedia texts, websites, broadcast or multimedia advertisements, e-zines, e-mail and other text messages
10.5. Other common texts
10.5.1. According to the form of Presentation
10.5.1.1. Print
10.5.1.2. Electronic
10.5.2. According to the Purpose
10.5.2.1. Procedural texts
10.5.2.1.1. Recipes, rule books, street maps, instructional manuals, directions for scientific experiments,"how to" books and posters
10.5.2.2. Reports
10.5.3. Functional texts
10.6. Adventure, Epic, Fable, Fairy tale, Fantasy, Folk tale, Historical fiction, Horror, Humour, Legend, Mystery, Myth, Realistic fiction, Romance, Science fiction
11. Texts for Language and Word Study
11.1. Thesauri
11.1.1. Grocery and other lists, memos and notes, pamphlets, brochures, flyers, advertisements, CD inserts, invitations, announcements, programs, business letters, scripts, minutes of meetings
11.2. Style guides and other material on the writer's craft
11.2.1. References on specific language features, such as: Word origins, idioms, puns, similes and metaphors, canadianisms, jokes and riddles, homophones and palindromes, words with which many junir readers and writers may be unfamiliar, limericks and tongue twisters, rhyming dictionaries
12. Texts That Meet the Needs of All Readers
13. An Annotated List of Children's Book Review Websites
13.1. Canadian Review of Materials www.umanitoba.ca/cm/
13.2. Just for Kids who love Books www.alanbrown.com
13.3. Dictionaries, including picture and multilingual dictionaries
13.4. The Children's Literature Web Guide www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
13.4.1. Read Up On It www.collectionscanada.ca/read-up-on-it/index-e.html
13.5. KidsReads.Com www.kidsreads.com/
13.6. World Of Reading www.worldreading.org/
13.6.1. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: All Reviewes Chidren's Books www.carolhurst.com/titles/allreviewed.html