Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books
Title | Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Licciardo Musso |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780590019750 |
Contains engaging discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, and great literature response activities.
Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books
Title | Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Licciardo-Musso |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | |
Release | 1999-08-19 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781417772865 |
Offers fourth through eighth-grade teachers suggestions, writing and discussion topics, hands-on projects, vocabulary lists, and other lesson ideas focusing on twenty-five Newbery titles from 1931 through the 1990s
When My Name Was Keoko
Title | When My Name Was Keoko PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Sue Park |
Publisher | Univ. of Queensland Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2013-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0702251267 |
A heartwarming tale of courage, resilience and hope from master storyteller and winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal, Linda Sue Park. When her name was Keoko, Japan owned Korea, and Japanese soldiers ordered people around, telling them what they could do or say, even what sort of flowers they could grow. When her name was Keoko, World War II came to Korea, and her friends and relatives had to work and fight for Japan. When her name was Keoko, she never forgot her name was actually Kim Sun-hee. And no matter what she was called, she was Korean. Not Japanese. Inspired by true-life events, this amazing story reveals what happens when your culture, country and identity are threatened.
Teaching Science Through Trade Books
Title | Teaching Science Through Trade Books PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Anne Royce |
Publisher | NSTA Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1936959135 |
If you like the popular?Teaching Science Through Trade Books? columns in NSTA?s journal Science and Children, or if you?ve become enamored of the award-winning Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you?ll love this new collection. It?s based on the same time-saving concept: By using children?s books to pique students? interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way.
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Title | Dear Mr. Henshaw PDF eBook |
Author | Beverly Cleary |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0061972150 |
Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.
35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions
Title | 35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Buzzeo |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780439207638 |
Take your students on a learning-packed trip across the U.S. with books they ll love! This resource includes background information, activity ideas, reproducibles, and Internet connections to help you use 35 great novels as springboards to social studies learning. A great way to get your kids to read more deeplyand learn about the seven U.S. regions. For use with Grades 4-8."
A Year Down Yonder
Title | A Year Down Yonder PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2002-12-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1440672725 |
A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year