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Reading Mentor Texts
Picture books for Asking Questions, Inferring, Visualizing, Synthesizing, Drawing Out Important Ideas and Making Connections.See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary Schools
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From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children’s Classics as...
Creative thinking required here. Higher Order Thinking application ... What can our students do?See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary Schools
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ePub Bud - Publish, Convert, Store, and Download free children's ebooks...
This is the first ebook publishing AND free ebook site I've seen. Thanks for passing it on Leslie.See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary Schools
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About WritingFix: Our Bibliography of Mentor Texts
Think of this as a starter link. Writing Fix has many mentor texts for writing. It seems to start with the picture book titles and requires to dig for the purpose. I may dig deeper ... later.See it on...
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Jessica Meacham, an elementary (K-6 background) teacher's scope and sequence (with book lists) for a year of learning about schema, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing, making connections, determining...
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The Smiley Book of Colors
The basics of optimism and color theory, with a nod to neuroscience.And in my kind of english, it's adorably cute and has to make people smile.See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary Schools
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Helping Students Consider the Significance of Details with Wordless ...
Wordless picture books require students to consider visual details, imagery (inferring and reading between the lines ... yeah, I know there are no-lines) and bring prior knowledge to the...
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Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Children's Books Focusing on...
A list of books that address special needs. Updated March 2012. Send additions suggestions to the blogger if you have some.See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary Schools
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Reading Comprehension: A Shared Responsibility of Rotary Subject Teachers
For elementary schools with subject rotary. Methods for improving student reading ability in Science, History, Geography, Arts and Math. Strategies include: Create anticipation guides that list key...
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Reading & Writing Strategies Book Lists
This has a large list of topics and suggested picture books and novels. Many will 'suggest' alternatives if you are familiar with titles in a given category. No ISBNs. But does that even matter anymore...
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Test Drive Jason Chin's “Hybrid” book, Coral Reefs « Six Trait Gurus
Read this. You don't have to have this book. The descriptions show how you develop lessons and discussions with students when beginning new topics, e.g., Biomes, biodiversity, Medieval times ... this...
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A Picture Book A Day
A new picture book review every few days. The books seem to be for primary aged students, yet they have an appeal that any reader would appreciate. A sample of reviews on Amazon indicate these are...
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Top 5 Reasons to Let Kids Choose Their Own Books
A Grade 7 teacher shares why she changed from telling students what they would read (e.g., everybody reading the same novel) to letting her students choose what to read and why it is the better way.See...
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Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results (#1-101) « A Fuse #8 Production
What is the surprise about dates? Did art and interpretation some how get better because it they are newer? I like how lists inspire debate. Go, Dog Go! vs Imagine A Day ... Who wins?See it on...
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K-8 books to reflect the world
Five Bibliographies that sample books to reflect current and past beliefs, traditions, events.It's not definitive by any stretch, but worthy of checking out.See it on Scoop.it, via Books for Elementary...
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50 Inspiring Children’s Books with a Positive Message
If you like, Have You Filled A Bucket Today?, Ish, Not A Box and Press Here, you will see the merits of this list ... Books for fun and for thinking with positive messages.See it on Scoop.it, via Books...
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Books to complement/introduce Math concepts
Actually, this is more of an everything you want to know about Math site. The book lists are quite large and cover pre-K to Gr 12+. Some titles are linked to Amazon.com for more info.See it on...
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Gr 1-3 Top 10 Back to School Picture Books
One teacher's Top 10. The idea accompanying This School Year Will Be The Best! could be used Gr. 1 - 8 ... wouldn't use book past Gr 3. Bill Peet's Big Bad Bruce is a more lengthy read aloud; it is...
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Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique - ReadWriteThink
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible. This works well with...
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The Picture Book Teacher's Edition: Thumbs up Thumbs down ...
This site may not work so well on iPad, but should be fine on an old school computer.This site reviews picture books, but not in the traditional sense, it's with the busy teacher in mind. You will find...
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