Room 200
Room 204
The K-12 Curriculum collection of kids textbooks is located in room 204. Usually the best way to find what you are looking for is just to go browse the small collection. Series are arranged by the subject call numbers, and are labeled with their grade level. In most cases there are both the student book and the teacher manual included.
You can also use OneSearch and location: k 12 curriculum. Enter your subject, e.g. math, and get a list of what we have.
Limit your results in the Publication Date drop down menu to your time-period
Do not limit these searches to Children's Collection, as many primary sources are in our larger collection.
Key for when you are no longer a student here
There are many factors that determine the appropriate age to read a book, and it can be hard if you haven't read the book, or don't know the child. (Labeling books by age is a problem, since a child with lower reading skills having to select "little kid" books to find something they CAN read successfully can turn them off reading.)
Two major considerations:
Recommendations from teachers or librarians who know the child and the books, are an excellent way to find appropriate books.
Publishers usually assign an age range to the books. These are some of the designations you will see:
These publisher designations can not determine both content AND difficulty, only a suggested age range to sell the book.
Web Search Tools
Scholastic's Reading Counts HMH Book Finder designates both an Interest Level and a Reading Level:
Lexile Find a Book database can determine the difficulty level, but not the content level:
Scholastic Book Wizard allows you to search by reading level systems:
Other Information: