Kids love children's books and picture books. Diane Speicher believes the good ones carry a powerful message that will stay with your child for life, like Brighton: One Star's Journey to Shine. It is demonstrated that reading children's books aloud can help pave the way to your child's ultimate success. Picture books are amazing for elementary readers who are just beginning. Here are a few hints to help you determine the children's books and picture books that are educational as well as enjoyable.
1. Understand the varieties of books or subjects your child has been drawn to in the past as well as the kinds of characters, situations and topics he or she might relate to or find valuable. 2. Ask friends, relatives and people you trust what books their kids read. 3. Think about books you read as a child and consider whether they are right for your child. 4. Ask your librarian to recommend books. 5. Look at books awarded Caldecott, Newberry, and Coretta Scott King awards. 6. Vary your suggestions and try different genres to hold your child's interest. 7. Make sure that the stories and illustrations present different issues in positive ways..
Here are the Caldecott Medal best children's books in recent years: 2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers) 2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook 2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press) 2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin) 2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small, written by Judith St. George (Philomel).
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Outta Ray's Head Literature This lesson is a very nice book project for a grade eight class, The lesson could be adapted in American
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/litera1.htm
Third 30 Days - Fifth Grade Language Arts Annotation: The first day of a two day literature unit was created for day 85 of -
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/seqlps/sudspres.asp?suid=160&ssuid=157&sstitle=fifth+grade+language+arts
Amazon.com: Anno's Magic Seeds (Picture Books): Books Anno's books are great for teaching fun math lessons. I readthe book to my sixth graders and had
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0698116186?v=glance
4th & 5th Grade Student Research Resources- Literature and Writing - 4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources Hooty Owl's Stories to Grow By
http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/tower/1217/stures.html
Dr Seuss's Literature-based Resources from kiddyhouse.com Grade Level: 3rd -5th grade lesson plan. The students will make a class Green Eggs and Ham :
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/teachers/literature/drseuss.html
ReadWriteThink - All Lessons This lesson uses the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah In this lesson, fourth and fifth
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0
Children's Literature Activiti Fifth Grade Literature. Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon · The Secret Garden · The Red Scarf- Jeanne's Top 100 Children's Books :Math
http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/childrenslit.html
The Lesson Plans Page - Language Arts Lesson Plans, Language Arts - A fun lesson on The Egyptian Cinderella picture book with another unit
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/la23.htm
KIDS: Books & Reading Reading lists, books and reading websites, and book award websites all in to the artist of the most distinguished American
http://www.mesalibrary.org/kids/books.asp
Authors and Literature in Grades 5-6 with Books. Online Literature. Booklists. Authors of Books for Students in Upper Elementary Grades. This list is constantly being
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/56chilit.htm
children's literature lesson plans and resources Click here for another 5th-grade lesson plan using this book to connect children's A primary-grade lesson plan integrating
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edchildrenslit.htm
Literature: Recommended Reading for Elementary Students | eThemes - This book list for fourth and fifth grade students was compiled by a library. lesson
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/s00001316.shtml
Constructing the Context: Teacher's Overview Each of the student lessons is taken from a grade level anthology by Primarily a picture book, it provides
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/road/teacher.html
For Teachers Search by book title and author for lesson plans and other literature related Use the Picture Book Database at Miami University to
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/forteachers/
American Literature Comes of Age (1850-1900). Short Stories - Curriculum material from Montgomery County Public Schools, based on Susan Jeffers' picture book. Unit/Lesson Plan.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitage.htm
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse is a picture book with a father so discouraged by current bad times on the farm that -
http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/outofthedust.html
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Selector. Grade Band, All Grades, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 The Genres of Childrens Books and Childrens Literature -
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=270
Teacher Resource Center Annotation: Language Arts Lesson Plans for grades K-1 submitted by teachers for Annotation: Novel and Picture Book Activities provides teachers with
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intpathid=3395
Fifth Grade Ideas 5TH GRADE RECOMMENDED BOOK LISTS Picture This: In this Internet writing lesson for grade 5, students use an online resource to
http://www.sjy.org/technology/5th%20grade%20ideas.htm
Internet Resources in writing and reading to use in English - Complete lessons for grades 6-12. Journal Jars Create a journal jar for -
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_write.htm
