Quality Literature List
Quality literature is necessary for building literacy-rich classrooms and supporting learners’ continuous development as authors and inquirers. Students need opportunities to explore both fiction and non-fiction texts, and a variety of forms and genres, for various purposes. The variety of texts used in Read Aloud, Shared Reading, Paired Reading, Guided Reading, and Independent Reading support conversations about text and about what authors do, provide opportunities to model, practise, and apply strategies Before, During, and After reading, and become examples for creating new texts. Quality literature is what makes up text sets that support inquiry and theme/concept exploration across the curriculum. These opportunities, which also provide learners with experience in choosing text, support student goal setting and reflection and formative assessment.
The Quality Literature List presents annotated bibliographies of a range of authentic literature titles that have been successfully used by many classroom teachers and teacher-librarians. This list is representative of authentic literature selections that might be considered for classroom use and has been organized using the developmental stages of the current Developmental Reading Continuum (Phase 1) and stages beyond this first phase.
Literature selections should be reviewed by school division staffs before they are used by students. In this way, community sensitivities and the perspectives of the student population are taken into account.
Many titles included in this bibliography, as well as literature reviews, are available through the Instructional Resources Unit (Education Library), 1181 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB.
Other sources for children’s and young adult literature reviews can also be found in online journals such as:
- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
- Resource Links: Connecting Classrooms, Libraries & Canadian Learning Resources
- Canadian Children’s Book News from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Annotated Bibliographies of Literature Selections
The following lists have been organized using the developmental stages of the current Developmental Reading Continuum (Phase 1):
(Printer Friendly) These documents are available for download as PDF 
files.
- Literature list of all developmental stages:
- Quality Literature List (1.6 MB)
- Individual developmental stages:
- Emergent (143 KB)
- Beginning (100 KB)
- Developing (103 KB)
- Transitional (104 KB)
- Expanding (111 KB)
- Bridging (105 KB)
- Fluent (106 KB)
- Proficient (104 KB)
- Independent (107 KB)
