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How to Find Basal Readers, Children's Books & Leveled Reading

Instructions for how to search for reading textbooks and how to find scope and sequence from publishers

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Basal Readers

Step 1: To locate elementary (basal) readers, type "Reading (Elementary)" in the basic search box on the Library Home Page.

Step 2: Under the Refine Your Results column of your search results, limit the Location to Curriculum Collection Textbooks.

screenshot of location list in catalog with Curriculum Collection Textbooks highlighted

Publisher Resources: Scope & Sequence and More

The following curricula comply with Wisconsin Act 20 (2023) requirements for reading curricula:

Great Minds: Wit & Wisdom PreK-3 Modules

CKLA K–5 Core Knowledge Language Arts Program (Amplify)

EL Education Language Resources (Open-up Resources)

Publishers often provide additional curriculum materials as well as student multimedia supports via their websites.

Citation Help

Given that classroom textbook series have multiple editions, grades, and units, each one packaged in a separate volume, constructing citations for these can require extra creativity. Remember: the primary goal of a citation is to ensure that your reader can locate your source. The following are a few examples for textbooks in our collection:

Textbooks (APA 7th ed. Style)

 

NOTE: In the examples, Common Core is capitalized in the title because it is a proper noun. Otherwise, titles should be sentence (lower) case except for the first word.

 

Baumann, J. F., Chard, D. J., Cooks, J., Cooper, J. D., Gersten, R., Lipson, M., Morrow, L. M., Pikulski, J. J., Templeton, S., Valencia, S. W., Valentino, C., & Vogt, M. (2014). Journeys Common Core: Grade 3 (Teacher's ed., Unit 5). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

 

Afflerbach, P., Blachowicz, C. L. Z., Boyd, C. D., Izquierdo, E., Juel, C., Leu, D. J., Paratore, J. R., Pearson, D. P., Sebesta, S., Simmons, D., Watts-Taffe, S., Tatum, A., Vaughn, S., & Wixson, K. K. (2013). Reading street Common Core (Teacher's ed., Vol. 4.3). Pearson/Scott Foresman.

 

For all other examples, see the APA Style Guide, or:

  1. Visit our YouTube APA Playlist for short tutorials.
  2. Visit the Reference Desk at the Library. We can help with one or two citations at a time.
  3. Make an appointment with an Academic Support Center Writing Tutor: Call 262-472-1230 
  4. Use Ask a Librarian: 24/7 Chat