Electronic
by Julie
Smith

Chapter books- in blue font
Leo Lionni books-
in red font
Eve Bunting
books- in green font
Caldecott Medal Winners
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
Kitten’s First Full Moon |
Kevin Henkes 2004 |
Ages 3-5 |
With construction paper, cotton
balls, and markers, have the children create the kitten in the book. |
This
book is about a kitten who mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk.
It follows the kitten on her journey as she tries to drink from the big
milk bowl in the sky. |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers |
Mordicai Gerstein 2004 |
Ages 5-8 |
Have
the children choreograph their own make believe tightrope performance. Can
be done in groups or individually. Allow them to present the dance to
the class. |
A
French aerialist, Philippe Petit, who put a tightrope between the two
towers of the |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
My Friend Rabbit |
Eric Rohmann 2002 |
Ages 4-8 |
Have
the children paint a picture of his or her best friend and present it
to the class. |
This
book is about a mouse and a rabbit that are best friends. Rabbit gets
into trouble no matter where he goes and what he does. |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
Simms Taback 1999 |
Ages 4-8 |
Put the children in groups. Have
the children as a group think of and discuss something that can be
reused like the overcoat in the story. |
Joseph
has an old overcoat he doesn’t want to get rid of. He keeps making it
smaller and smaller pieces of clothing, like a jacket and scarf. |
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Caldecott Medal Winner |
Snowflake Bently |
Jacqueline Briggs Martin/Mary
Azarian 1998 |
Ages 5-8 |
Let
the children design and create their own unique snowflake out of white
computer paper. |
Wilson
Bentley, a self-taught scientist, who photographs individual snowflakes
so he can study their unique shapes. |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
Officer Buckle and Gloria |
Peggy Rathmann 1995 |
Ages 5-8 |
Divide
the children into groups and have them create a larger poster board
with different safety tips they should always follow on it. Allow them
to decorate it any way they choose. |
The
children in an elementary school always ignore Officer Buckle's safety
tips. He gets a police dog named Gloria to accompany him when he gives
his safety speeches. |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
Smoky Night |
Eve Bunting/David
Diaz 1999 |
Ages 5-8 |
The
children will create a self-portrait and write a narrative describing
their features. This will illustrate that everyone is different in his
or her own way. |
Riots
break out in the streets of a neighborhood. A young boy and his mother
learn the values of getting along with others regardless of their
background or nationality. |
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Caldecott Medal
Winner |
The Polar Express |
Chris Van Allsburg 1985 |
Ages 5-8 |
The children will make sock
snowmen. http://preschoolrainbow.
Org/preschool-winter.htm |
One
Christmas Eve after everyone was asleep, a boy boards the mysterious
Polar Express bound for the North Pole. Santa offers the boy any gift
he desires. |
Newbery Award Winners
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Newbery Award Winner |
Holes
|
Louis Sachar 2000 |
Ages 9-12 |
Create literature
circles. Assign different roles to different children. Make one person
in charge of a summary, illustrator, word finder, etc.
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Newbery Award Winner |
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry 1998 |
Ages 10-14 |
Create literature
circles. Assign different roles to different children. Make one person
in charge of a summary, illustrator, word finder, etc.
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In
1943, during the German occupation of |
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Newbery Award Winner |
Maniac Magee
|
Jerry Spinelli/ 1991 |
Ages 8-11 |
Illustrate
pages of their favorite parts of the book. |
Follow
a boy on his journey repair the relationships in the lives of people he
meets. |
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Newbery Award Winner |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
|
Mildred D. Taylor/
1999 |
Ages 9-11 |
In small groups,
the children will research different aspects of the Great Depression,
including how it affected the lives of Americans. Then will present/
Discuss with the class what was learned. SS5H5 |
This
book is about a young African American girl growing up in the south
during the Great Depression. |
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Newbery Award Winner |
The Whipping Boy
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Sid Fleischman/
Peter Sis 2003
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Ages 8-12 |
Have
the children write a story about how they took the blame for a friend. |
A
young orphan boy is taken from the streets to become the whipping boy
for the prince. It is forbidden to spank/whip the heir to the throne.
Fine out why the prince and boy have to trade places. |
Other Award Winning Books
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Caldecott Honor Award |
Swimmy
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Leo Lionni 1973 |
Ages 4-8 |
Create
an ocean scene using tissue paper and watercolor. Paint the tissue
paper, cut out ocean creatures and paste it on a construction paper. |
A
little black fish lives in a school of red fish until they are all
eaten. He finds another school of red fish and they work together to
save themselves. |
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Newbery Honor Award |
Stargirl |
Jerry Spinelli 2000 |
Young Adult |
Divide
the children into groups and have them perform their favorite scene
from the book. Write a narrative that goes along with the scene. |
After
fifteen years of home schooling, a girl by the name Stargirl Caraway
goes to high school. She is bold and out spoken unlike all of the other
students. |
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Caldecott
Honor Award |
There was an Old
Lady Who Swallowed a Fly |
Simms Taback/ Pam Adams 1997 |
Ages 4-8 |
Let the
children make puppets to go along with the old lady and animals in the
book and then perform a puppet show to read along with the book. |
The
old lady swallows a fly, spider, bird, and more. This book has die-cut
outs; the children can actually see the animals inside her stomach. |
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Caldecott
Honor Award |
Alexander and the
Wind-Up Mouse |
Leo Lionni 1974 |
Ages 4-8 |
Discuss items that
are living and non-living with the classroom. Have the children go
around the classroom and sort items that are living/non-living. SKL1. |
Alexander
is a real mouse; however, he wants to be a toy mouse like his friend.
Read to find out why Alexander realizes the grass isn’t always greener
on the other side. |
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Caldecott
Honor Award |
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Leo Lionni 1973 |
Ages 4-8 |
Using
black construction paper and colored chalk, have the children draw a
picture of a daydream. |
Instead
of helping the other mice gather food for winter, |
Multicultural
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Multicultural |
Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters: An African Tale |
Maurice Sendak 1963 |
Ages 4-8 |
Have the children write their
own version of a Cinderella Story and share with the class. |
Mufaro
has two beautiful daughters- one good, one bad. They are sent to go
before the King, so he can choose a wife. |
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Multicultural |
Legend of the Indian Paintbrush |
Tomie de Paola 1996 |
Ages 4-8 |
Children
will paint a story on a leather bag (brown paper bag).This activity is
for a little older children, but young children could do it just as
easily. http://www.eduref.org/ Virtua/Lessons/Social_ Studies/US_History/ USH0048.html |
Little
Gopher dreams to become a great artist to paint the stories and legends
of his tribe. |
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Multicultural |
Amazing Grace |
Mary Hoffman/ Caroline Binch 1991 |
Ages 4-8 |
The
illustrations in the book are done with watercolor. Have the children
paint, with watercolor, their favorite part of the book. |
Grace
loves stories of all sorts. There is a Peter Pan Play at her school and
she wants to be the main star. |
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Multicultural |
How Many Days to |
Eve Bunting/ Beth
Peck 1988
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Ages 4-8 |
Discuss Thanksgiving with the children. Let the
children create turkeys by painting their hands and stamping them. Add
face of turkey to thumb print. |
This
is a Thanksgiving story. A family and other refugees are forced to
leave their home on a |
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Multicultural |
The Fortune Tellers |
Ages 3-8 |
Half way through reading the
book, have the children draw their predictions of what fortunes the
carpenter will have. ELA2R4 |
A
young man goes to a fortuneteller to get predictions. |
ABC/Counting/Concept
Books
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Concept Book |
Color Zoo |
Lois Ehlert 1997 |
Preschool |
Using
colorful construction paper, have the children tear or
cut out
different shapes and
paste them together to create their favorite ZOO animal.. |
This
book has die-cut pages and puts together different colors and shapes to
make different faces of zoo animals. |
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Counting book |
Chicka Chicka 1 2 3 |
Bill Martin/ Michael Sampson/ Michael R. Sampson/ Lois Ehlert 2004 |
Ages 3-7 |
Divide
the children into groups. Each group will have 10 numbers they will
think of a jingle-rhyme song for. 1-10, 10-20 and so forth. Go around
the classroom and let each group sing their jingle. |
The
numbers one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree. The book
is written in a cute rhyme. |
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Counting book |
Spot counts from 1
to 10 |
Eric Hill 1989 |
Preschool |
Have
the students count out loud with you as you read the book. |
Spot
the dog counts to ten. |
Predictable Books
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Predictable |
Love You Forever |
Robert N. Munsch/
Sheila McGraw 2000 |
Ages 5-6 |
After
reading the book with the class, Read the book a second time and have
the children read the book aloud with you, since it’s a predictable
book. |
A
woman sings to her son: “I'll love you
forever |
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Predictable |
Very Busy Spider |
Eric Carle |
Ages 2-5 |
Using
black construction paper and white yarn, have the children glue their
own spider web. |
A spider got so
busy working on her web that she did not have time to play with her
friends. However, she spun a beautiful surprise in the end. |
Realistic Fiction
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Realistic Fiction |
Flower Garden |
Eve Bunting/
Kathryn Hewitt 1994 |
Ages 3-7 |
Let
the children paint their own flowerpot and plant their own flower
garden. |
A
little girl puts together a flower garden as a surprise for her
mother’s birthday. Follow her and the flower gardens journey from the
store to the windowpane. |
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Realistic Fiction |
My Ol’ Man |
Patricia Polacco 1995 |
Ages 5-8 |
Read the book aloud to the
children. Have the children orally discuss to the class about their
favorite summer memory. ELA1R6 |
A
girl tells about her memories of the summer she spent in |
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Realistic Fiction |
Knuffle Bunny |
Mo Willems 2004 |
Ages 4-8 |
Bring
in a puppet to use while reading the book. Have the children bring in a
favorite stuffed animal. |
Daddy and baby
spend the day together running errands. Daddy makes a mistake by not
noticing when baby leaves her stuffed animal. |
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Realistic Fiction |
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Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor 2000 |
Ages 8-12 |
Have
the children draw a picture of their pet. If they do not have a pet,
create one. |
A
little boy comes across a beagle and takes it in as his own. The real
owner of the dog is abusive to the dog. The boy hides and protects the
dog. |
Poetry Anthologies
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Poetry |
Lilies on the Moon |
Robert W. Kurkela/Cassidy S.
Kurkela 2005 |
Ages 5-8 |
Have
the children write their own poems about what it’s like to be a child
and have them decorate around it with finger paints. |
A
collection of poetry written by an adult; however, from a child’s
perspective. The poems are about the trials and tribulations of being a
child. The illustrations in the book are by the author’s daughter. |
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Poetry |
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day |
Jack Prelutsky/Paul O. Zelinsky
2001 |
Ages 6-9 |
Let the children write their own
poem about their daily routine in chronological order. Have the
children pick their favorite part of their routine and draw a picture
with a lot of details. ELA4W1 |
There
are eighteen poems in this book. Awful Ogre describes his awful daily
routines with gruesome detail. |
Traditional
Literature
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Traditional Fantasy |
The |
Izzi Tooinsky/
Edwina White |
Ages 5-8 |
After reading
the story, have students paint a picture of what they would turn
themselves into in order to escape something didn’t want to do. |
A young prince
did not want to be king so he came into his own by being a turkey. |
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Traditional Fantasy |
The Three
Little Pigs |
James Marshall 2000 |
Ages 4-8 |
Read the book to the children.
Have the children re-enact what happens in the book. ELA1LSV1 |
Three clever
little pigs try to out smart a sly fox. |
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Traditional Fantasy |
Little Red
Riding Hood |
Ages 4-8 |
Have the
children re-enact the book. |
Little red
riding hood goes to see her grandmother and is in for a shock. |
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Traditional Fantasy |
Cinderella |
Charles Perrault/
Marcia Brown 1997 |
Ages 4-8 |
Read other
versions of Cinderella stories and have the children describe how they
are alike and different. |
A girl has to
take care of her evil step-mother and two step-sisters. She gets the
greatest prize at the end. |
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Traditional Fanstasy |
The Ugly
Duckling |
Hans Christian
Andersen/ Jerry Pinkney 1999 |
Ages 3-8 |
The teacher
will talk about being nice to others around you. The children will
write one nice thing about every person in the classroom. |
An ugly
duckling is not treated right by the other animals because of the way
he looks. He grows up to be a beautiful swan. |
Modern
Fantasy/Science
Fiction
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade |
Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Modern Fantasy |
Don’t Let the
|
Mo
Willems
2003 |
Ages 2-5 |
Using cardboard and other
materials around the classroom, create a cardboard school bus for the
children to pretend with. |
The
pigeon in the book wants to drive the bus. When he is not allowed, he
throws a temper tantrum. |
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Modern
Fantasy/ Science
Fiction |
A
Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L'Engle
1998 |
Ages 9-12 |
Have
the children create a collage of different themes and items in the book
and present it to the class. |
A father is
experimenting with time travel, and disappears. The children have to
outsmart evil as they travel through space to find their father. |
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Modern Fantasy |
What makes a
rainbow? |
Ages 2-5 |
Have the children finger paint a
rainbow using the colors red, orange, yellow, green, and blue; like the
colors in the book. This activity will help learn colors and have fun
at the same time. |
Little rabbit
wants to know what makes a rainbow. He acts different animals to get
the answer. Every time a new page is turned, a different color ribbon
is strung across the page to make the colors of the rainbow. |
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Modern Fantasy |
The Kissing
Hand |
Ages 4-10 |
Have the children write about
how they felt on the first day of school and how their nerves were
calmed. ELA1W1 |
It’s a young
raccoon’s first day of school and he is very nervous. His mom gives him
a gift to help calm his nerves. |
Historical
Fiction
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Historical
Fiction |
If You Were
There in 1492 |
Barbara Brenner 1998 |
Ages 8-12 |
Research Christopher Columbus
with the children. Have the children create a power point presentation
about Christopher Columbus and what he did. ELA6W3 |
Explores
everyday life in |
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Historical
Fiction |
Caddie
Woodlawn |
Carol Ryrie Brink/
Giovanni Boccaccio/
Trina Schart Hyman
1990 |
Ages 8-12 |
Discuss
the older days with the class. Have the children act out the way things
would be back then. |
Adventures
of a young girl growing up in the 1860’s. Caddie is a tomboy and isn’t
like the other girls of this time. |
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Historical
Fiction |
Amelia
Earhart |
Jane Moore Howe/
Cathy Morrison 2000 |
Ages 9-12 |
Have
the children create a tri-fold board including their research and
pictures of Amelia Earhart. |
Tells
about Amelia Earhart’s life and the things she accomplished throughout
it. |
Informational/Biographies/Autobiographies
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Picture of
Book |
Genre |
Title |
Author/ |
Recommended Age/Grade
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Ideas for
Classroom Use |
Brief
Description of the Book |
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Biography |
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1989 |
Ages 8-12 |
Have the
students use the internet to find information about Abraham Lincoln. |
Story
of Abraham Lincoln. Includes over 90 black and white photographs and
prints. |
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Biography |
Anne Frank
|
Josephine Poole/ |
Ages 10-12 |
Have the
students create a poster with related themes of Anne Frank. |
A story of what
Anne Frank was like as a small girl and what inspired her to write
about her life. |
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Informational |
How Much Is a Million?
|
David M. Schwartz/
Steven Kellogg 1985 |
Ages 3-8 |
Have the
children guess how many you have of different objects. Ex: jelly beans
in a large jar. |
Helps children
grasp the concept of large numbers by using silly things such as, how
big a bowl would have to be to hold a million goldfish. |
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Informational |
One Giant Leap
|
Don Brown |
Ages 6-9 |
Help the children research Neil
Armstrong and have them create a tri folding board displaying the
information gathered and share it with the class. ELA3W1 |
This is a story
of Neil Armstrong’s life. It tells what he was like growing up and that
he was the first person to set foot on the moon. |
KEY
SS5H5.
The student will explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected
the
lives of millions of Americans.
A. discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt,
the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens.
SKL1.
Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into
groups by
observable physical attributes.
A. Recognize the difference between living organisms and nonliving materials.
ELA2R4.
The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from
grade-level
text.
The student
B. Makes predictions
from text content.
ELA1R6.
The student uses a variety of strategies to understand and gain meaning
from
grade-level text. The student
F. Makes connections
between texts and/or personal
experiences.
ELA4W1.
The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate
organizational
structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a
coherent
focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student
C. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological
order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a
question).
ELA6W3.
The student uses research and technology to support writing. The
student
B. Includes researched information in different types of products (e.g.,
compositions, power point presentations, graphic organizers, projects, etc.)
ELAKR6.
The student gains meaning from orally presented text. The student
F. Uses prior knowledge, graphic features (illustrations), and graphic organizers
to understand text.
ELA3W1.
The student demonstrates competency in the writing process. The student
J. Uses a variety of resources to research and share information on a topic.
ELA1LSV1.
The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate. The
student
E. Communicates effectively when relating experiences and retelling stories
read, heard, or viewed.
ELA1W1.
The student begins to demonstrate competency in the writing process.
The
student
A. Describes an
experience in writing.