Excellent New K-5 Titles Summer Reading Institute July 15th, 2008 Kristen Majkut, Zoller Librarian...

Excellent New K-5 Titles

Summer Reading Institute

July 15th, 2008

Kristen Majkut, Zoller Librarian

Schenectady CSD

Schenectady, NY

These titles target specific K-5 ELA skills:

Making Connections:

• Text to Text

• Text to World

• Text to Self

Inferring: Background Knowledge

+ Text clues = Inferencing!

Comprehension Strategiesused during Read-Alouds in Library

• Activate background knowledge – brainstorm with students

a bulleted list of book’s topic prior to reading aloud the text

• Asking Questions: before, during and after.

Chart all student-generated questions and responses

• Visualizing: Close your eyes & visualize!

Ask readers to create mental images from words in the text

• 3 Column Chart: Fact/Question/Inference

• Model thinking aloud for students: “I’m wondering…”

• Compare and Contrast T-chart or Venn diagram chart

Henry’s Freedom Box• Caldecott Honor, 2008• Picture Book, © 2007 • Author, Ellen Levine• Illustrator, Kadir Nelson• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1, 3ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:African-AmericansThe Underground RailroadSlaveryFictional Account of Real Event

Four Feet, Two Sandals

• Author, Karen Lynn Williams• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 2,3,5

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:

Shoes, Sharing

Refugee Camps, Pakistan

War, Fiction

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

• Author/Illustrator, Brian Selznick• Caldecott Winner, 2008• This 533 page book has 300

illustrations• The book depends equally on the

illustrations as it does the writing• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 2,3ELA 1,2,3

• INFERENCING!

Subject Terms:Robots, Orphans, Train StationsParis, 1930’s

A Taste of Colored Water

• Author: Matt Faulkner• Picture Book, © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1,5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Racial DiscriminationCivil Rights Movement, 1960sWater FountainsSeparate but Equal

Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building

• Author: Deborah Hopkinson• Illustrator: James Ransome• Picture Book, © 2006• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1, 3ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Empire State Building1930s – New York CitySkyscrapersDesign and Construction

One Green Apple

• Author: Eve Bunting• Illustrator: Ted Lewin• Picture Book, © 2006• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 2,3ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Apples, ImmigrantsSchool Field TripsSelf-confidenceFictionLearning English

Molly Bannaky

• Author: Alice McGill• Illustrator: Chris K. Soenpiet• Picture Book, © 1999• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1,2,3,4,5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:EnglandNew England colonies17th century Indentured ServitudeBenjamin Banneker

The Great Math Tattle Battle

• Author: Anne Bowen• Illustrator: A. Whitman• Picture Book, © 2006• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3Math, 3

Subject Terms:Math, SchoolsTattling, FictionProblem-solving

Library Lion

• Author: Michelle Knudsen• Illustrator, Kevin Hawkes• Picture Book, © 2006• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Lions, LibrariesListening, RulesFiction

Farfallina & Marcel • Author: Holly Keller

• Picture Book, © 2002

• NYS Learning Standards:

Science 4

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:

Friendship

Growth

Caterpillars

Metamorphosis

Butterflies

Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly

• Author: Alan Madison• Illustrator: Kevin Hawkes• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

Science 4ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:ButterfliesSchoolsIndividualitySisters

Freedom Summer • Author: Deborah Wiles• Illustrator, Jerome Lagarrigue• Picture Book, © 2001 • NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1,5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:African-AmericansCivil Rights Movement, 1960sFriendship, FictionSeparate but equal

Remember:The Journey to School Integration

• Author: Toni Morrison• Non-fiction book, © 2004• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1,5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:School DesegregationDiscrimination in educationAfrican-AmericansPictorial works

Freedom on the Menu:

The Greensboro Sit-ins • Author: Carole Weatherford• Illustrator: Jerome Lagarrigue• Picture Book, © 2005• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1,5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:African-AmericansCivil Rights DemonstrationsRace Relations, DiscriminationGreensboro, NC, Historical Fiction

Miss Malarkey

Leaves No Reader Behind

• Author: Judy Finchler• Illustrator: Kevin O’Malley• Picture Book, © 2006• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Books, ReadingTeachers, SchoolsReluctant Readers

School Lunch

• Author: True Kelley• Picture Book, © 2005• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:SchoolsCafeteria FoodCooksLetter writing Fiction

Twister! • Author: Darlene Bailey Beard• Illustrator: Nancy Carpenter• Picture Book, © 1999• NYS Learning Standards:

Science 4ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:TornadoesWeather eventsBrothers and sistersFiction

The Polar Bears Are Hungry • Author: Carol Carrick

• Illustrator: Paul Carrick• Picture Book, © 2002• NYS Learning Standards:

Science 4ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Polar BearsGlobal WarmingFictionWeatherEnvironmental Change

Wind Flyers

• Author: Angela Johnson• Illustrator: Loren Long• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 1, 5ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Flying, AirplanesUS Air ForceAfrican-AmericansTuskegee AirmenWorld War IIFiction

I Miss You Everyday

• Author: Simms Taback• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1, 2, 3

Subject Terms:Postal serviceLong-distance relationshipsLetter writingStories in rhymeFiction

Jazz on a Saturday Night • Author: Leo & Diane Dillon• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

The Arts 2, 3, 4Social Studies 1ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:JazzJazz MusiciansHistory of JazzBiographiesNon-fiction

Kid Tea

• Author: Elizabeth Ficocelli• Illustrator: Clin Dibley• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:

Baths, Bath time

Children, Playing

Stories in rhyme

Santa’s Eleven Months Off: • Author: Mike Reiss• Illustrator: Michael Montgomery

• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Santa ClausVacationRecreationStories in rhyme

The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians

• Author: Carla Morris• Illustrator: Brad Sneed• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Boys, LibrariesLibrarians, ReadingEducationAccess to informationStories in rhyme

The Wicked Big Toddlah

• Author: Kevin Hawkes• Picture Book, © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Infants, SizeBabies, ToddlersFictionMaine

Owly series • Author: Andy Runton• Graphic Novels, © 2005-2008• 4 titles in the series• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:OwlsFriendshipNear Wordless bookBeginner Graphic NovelsFiction

Amelia Rules series• Author: Jimmy Gownley• Graphic Novels, © 2006-2008

4 titles in the series• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Children, FamilyFriendshipDivorceBeginner Graphic NovelsFiction

Baby Mouse series• Author: Jennifer L. Holm• Graphic Novels, © 2005-2008

8 titles in the series• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:PopularityImaginationFriendshipBeginner Graphic NovelsFiction

The Sisters Grimm Series

• Author: Michael Buckley• Chapter Books © 2005-2008• 6 titles in the series• NYS Learning Standards:• ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Sisters, Orphans, MagicDescendants of the Brothers GrimmFairy tale charactersMystery and detective storiesFiction

Rainstorm

• Author: Barbara Lehman• Picture Book © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:PlayAdventureFictionWordless picture books

Trainstop• Author: Barbara Lehman• Picture Book © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:

Railroads

Toys

Helpfulness

Fiction

Wordless picture books

Treasure• Author: Suzanne Bloom• Picture Book © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 3ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:TreasureTreasure huntReading MapsFiction

The Sandman• Author: Ralph Fletcher• Picture Book © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:SandmanSleepDragonsMagicFiction

Silent Music• Author: James Rumford• Picture Book © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies 2,3The Arts 3,4ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:CalligraphyBaghdad, Iraq WarCopingWriting as an art form

The Lemonade Club• Author: Patricia Polacco• Picture Book © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:CancerTeachersTeacher-student friendshipsSchoolsFiction

Llama Llama, Mad at Mama• Author: Anna Dewdney• Picture Book © 2007• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Mother and childShoppingLlamasFiction

My Travelin’ Eye• Author: Jenny-Sue Kostecki-Shaw• Picture Book © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Lazy eyes, eye patchesVisionWearing glassesFictionSchools

Catching the Sun• Local Author: Colleen Paratore• Picture Book © 2008• NYS Learning Standards:

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Mother & childVacationBeachesPregnancyBecoming a big brotherFiction

The Wall:Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

• Author: Peter Sis• Graphic novel, © 2007• Caldecott Honor book• NYS Learning Standards:• Social Studies

ELA 1,2,3

Subject Terms:Memoir, Auto-biographicalGraphic novelCommunism, the Cold WarPrague, Czech RepublicThe 1960s

The next 10 titles were not in the book talk presentation.

These are some of my favorites that have older copyright dates.

You may know them already!

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

• Author, Deborah Hopkinson• Illustrator, James Ransome• Picture Book, © 1995 • NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:QuiltsSlaveryFreedomEscapeAfrican-AmericansFiction

The Summer My Father Was Ten

• Author, Pat Brisson• Illustrator, Andrea Shine• Picture Book, © 1998 • NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:Fathers and SonsHonestyVandalismApologiesFiction

The Pain and the Great One

• Author, Judy Blume• Illustrator, Irene Trivas• Picture Book, © 1974• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:Brothers and SistersSibling RivalryFiction

The Wall

• Author, Eve Bunting• Illustrator, Ronald Himler• Picture Book, © 1990• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:Fathers and SonsVietnam Veterans MemorialGrandfathersWar

Baseball Saved Us

• Author, Ken Mochizuki• Picture Book, © 1993• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:BaseballJapanese AmericansEvacuation and RelocationWWII, 1939-1945PrejudiceFiction

A Chair for My Mother

• Author, Vera Williams• Picture Book, © 1982• Caldecott Honor• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:ChairsHouse firesFamily lifeSaving and InvestingFiction

Tea with Milk

• Author, Allen Say• Picture Book, © 1999• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:HomesicknessJapanMovingFitting inFiction

Goin’ Someplace Special

• Author, Patricia McKissack• Illustrator, Jerry Pinkney• Picture Book, © 2000• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:SegregationAfrican-AmericansLibrariesNashville, TN1950s

Fever, 1793

• Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

• Chapter Book, © 2002• NYS Learning Standards:

Social Studies, Grade 3

Subject Terms:Yellow FeverPhiladelphia – 1790sEpidemicsSurvivalHistorical Fiction

An American Plague:

the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 • Author: Jim Murphy • Non-fiction book, © 2003 • NYS Learning Standards:• Companion to Fever, 1793• Newbery Honor Book, 2003

Subject Terms:Yellow FeverPhiladelphia – 1790s18th century historyEpidemics, SurvivalNon-Fiction

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