School of Education Resource Center: Instructional Materials (IMC)

Our instructional material collection includes over 1,000 resources for teacher reference, assessment, lesson planning and more! In the IMC collection, you'll find:

• Teacher reference materials, including the first 91 volumes of Children's Literature Review. Click here for a handy online index to the CLR.

• Testing and assessment kits, including the K-TEA II, K-BIT II, Brigance, Peabody, Vineland and Conners tests. Keep in mind that assessment materials placed on reserve are sometimes held behind the circulation desk at Smith Library. Check the catalog before you come in!

• Professional books covering a broad range of subjects and grade levels. These include lesson planning books with reproducible handouts as well as books on standard implementation and classroom management.

• Educational games and resource boxes to engage students.

• Literacy kits: some with 6 copies of a book for reading circles, others with several books on a topic or theme.

• Audiobooks: these are mostly books on cassette with the physical book included. To search audiobooks online, try Audiobooks on EBSCO.

• Puppets, blocks, educational posters and an assortment of manipulatives for classroom use.

*We also have a collection of animated DVDs as well as other movies suitable for children in the DVD collection on the first floor of Smith Library. You can check out DVDs from the "animated" section, or look for titles from this list of live action children's films.

Check out our social studies resource boxes and games from Lakeshore Learning. Click here for a list of subjects covered.

Pairing a puppet with a picture book can bring the story to life and make literature fun and engaging for young readers. Below are some puppets in the resource center with several book suggestions for each:

PIG PUPPET

Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo

The three pigs by David Wiesner

Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems

BEAR PUPPETS (3)

Goldilocks and the three bears by James Marshall

Rubia and the three osos by Susan Elya

Leola and the honeybears by Melodye Rosales

LION PUPPET

The happy lion by Lousie Fatio

Library lion by Michelle Knudsen

The lion and the mouse by Jerry Pinkney

CAT PUPPET

Yoko by Rosemary Wells

Won Ton by Lee Wardlaw

If you give a cat a cupcake by Laura Numeroff

DOG PUPPET

Henry, the dog with no tail by Kate Feiffer

City dog, country frog by Mo Willems

The desperate dog writes again by Eileen Christelow

WITCH PUPPET

A very witchy spelling bee by George Shannon

Strega nona by Tomie DePaola

Heckedy peg by Audrey Wood