September 15 - October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio supports knowledge-building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions, history, and achievements of Hispanic and Latino Americans.
The text used for reading instruction is important. Quality text meets the needs of readers and the task, develops background knowledge and vocabulary, and stretches readers with complexity to prepare them for college and careers. As readers learn through the systematic and explicit instruction of structured literacy, it is important that authentic, grade-level, and content-area-specific text be used for the development of language comprehension.
When choosing quality text, educators should consider the components of the graphic below.
INFOhio offers quality text to supplement the text found in curricula. These eBooks can help engage, empower, elevate, and extend readers. The vetted eBook collections provided by INFOhio for all students, educators, and families offer ease in finding the best grade-level or complex text for reader task and purpose. To find titles to support National Hispanic Heritage Month and find the text that is right for your students use Educator Tools.
Educator Tools is a platform created for educators. It uses filters and a search feature to narrow results and find specific titles to use in instruction with students.
Educators can do keyword searches and limit the search results by different filters. In this example, a keyword search for biography was completed and the results were filtered by Item Type eBooks. There are nine biographies that celebrate the contributions of Hispanic American people including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. For a complete list of the biographies of Hispanic Americans go to this Your Favorites list from Educator Tools.
Also try a keyword search for Hispanic or immigrants to find additional titles to support National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Check out these specific titles:
Many titles are also available in Spanish. Educators can use the Language filter to limit their search results for Spanish-only titles. There are more than 230 Spanish titles available in Educator Tools from several publishers including Scholastic, Capstone, and Gale.
To share specific titles with students, click the blue i button in the top right corner of the title you'd like to share. Then click the red LMS/Direct Link and copy and paste the URL.
The grade level INFOhio eBooks and videos collections are for students. Designed for browsing, these collections were specially curated to include the titles best for each grade band. Students can use filters to narrow results or scroll to find a title of interest. Each grade band has a collection:
Explore eBook collections from INFOhio to find titles to support readers with specific topics, seasons, and events all year long. With thousands of eBooks to choose from, quality text for language comprehension development is just a few clicks away!
Sarah Mowery is a Professional Instructional Specialist with INFOhio. She has worked in education for 16 years as a school librarian and technology coach in elementary and middle school settings. While in these roles, she's been an integral part of the building leadership teams working as a curriculum connector and integrating web-based tools. She earned a BA in Sociology from Bowling Green State University and an MLS with a specialization in PK-12 schools from East Carolina University. Sarah was one of the original INFOhio ICoaches when the program first began in 2013 and has a passion for sharing how INFOhio resources can transform teaching and impact learning for students and educators across the state of Ohio.
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