Children's Literature Resources in the Curriculum Materials Center   Tags: childrens_literature, education, literacy, peabodylibrary  

Four hundred fifty more story stretchers for the primary grades.

450 all new activity ideas using 90 more of the most popular children's books.

90 children's books are s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d five different ways with lively learning activities.

Energize your story programs by infusing them with the power of movement! This guide offers you dozens of interactive, ready-to-use, age-appropriate and story-based activities that get children actively involved in learning. Designed to expand the child's self-awareness, range of expression, and aesthetic sensibility at particular stages of development, from infancy to puberty, these literature-based programs are simple enough to be used by any educator, even if you have little or no dance experience. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14

Connecting art and language arts, this guide offers creative lessons for more than 140 favorite children's books, most of which have been published within the last 10 years. The lessons help teachers inspire young students to create art projects related to a book's story.

This book is a compilation of outstanding children's authors' websites, children's literature websites, and notable storybook character websites that go beyond the ordinary content. Provided at your fingertips, this directory helps teachers to obtain biographic information about authors and illustrators, to learn how authors get their ideas for stories, to learn how books are made and illustrations created, to learn how to extend the books within the framework of the curriculum, and to know which websites to go to for recommended lesson plans and book-related activities for classroom projects and units.

How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? InMentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing—focus, content, organization, style, and conventions—and includes: mentor texts that can be used to scaffold student work; student writing examples to demonstrate how students take risks as writers; teacher writing examples to show the power of teacher as writer; a comprehensive annotated list of children's literature that includes specific suggestions for teaching points; “Your Turn” lessons at the end of each chapter that show how to put the ideas into practice.

In this book, you'll find 100+ ready-to-use lesson plans and library activities, each featuring a different Caldecott Medal or Honor book (ALA's annual award for the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children). Use this new book to help you form stronger collaborative partnerships with classroom teachers as together you help students build better writing competencies...which play a critical role in standardized testing.

Teaching Literacy Skills to Adolescents Using Coretta Scott King Award Winners has everything teachers need to create lessons in core subjects using the very best of young-adult literature. It offers a rich compilation of classroom-proven reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for promoting strong literacy skills in adolescents. Each chapter focuses on a Coretta Scott King Award winner, offering a selection from the text, a biographical sketch of the author, complete bibliographic information, an annotation, suggested grade level, and discussion questions. These are followed by a series of research-based reading and writing strategies for the book, plus activities in a reproducible format, all targeted to middle or high school grade levels. In addition to chapters on individual titles, the book includes an introductory section that explores the purpose and legacy of The Coretta Scott King Award, as well as the latest developments in literacy research.

Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers. This new guide provides everything you need to run a dynamic, no-fuss book discussion group with elementary and middle school students. Featuring 15 titles of diverse genres, it offers discussion topics and activity ideas for some of the best new reads for kids. Brought to you by the authors of the highly acclaimed Reading Rules! Motivating Teens to Read, this guide is an outstanding resource for starting and running a stellar literary discussion group—whether it's in a school, public library, or community center. Grades 4-8.