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Holocaust Picture Books: An Annotated List

April 8, 2013 – 11:38 am

An annotated list of recommended picture books about the Holocaust by Keith Schoch of http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com.

By Hannah | Posted in Book Lists, Curriculum Corner, guest blogger, Holidays | Tags: Book Lists, holocaust remembrance, teaching tolerance, yom hashoah | Comments (1)

Compiling Rigorous Thematic Text Sets: Books About Immigration

April 3, 2013 – 7:30 am

Resident Literacy Expert Jaclyn DeForge compiles a set of thematically related texts for classroom instruction.

By Jaclyn DeForge | Posted in Book Lists, Curriculum Corner, Resources | Tags: A Movie in my Pillow, Amelia's Road, Book Lists, close reading, Coming to America, common core standards, Cooper's Lesson, guided reading, Immigration, informational text standards, Reading Aloud, reading comprehension, slow reading, The Storyteller's Candle, thematic text sets | Comments (1)

Compiling Rigorous Thematic Text Sets: Books About Kenya

March 18, 2013 – 10:42 am

Resident Literacy Expert Jaclyn DeForge compiles a list of texts from numerous genres about Kenya.

By Jaclyn DeForge | Posted in Curriculum Corner, Resources | Tags: Book Lists, close reading, common core standards, common core text sets, compiling rigorous text sets, Reading Aloud, text sets, thematic text sets | Comments (3)

“Board” of Women? Our roundup of Women’s History Month books

March 8, 2013 – 1:29 pm

Recommendations of great books for Women’s History Month, with a focus on women of color

By keilinh | Posted in Holidays | Tags: Book Lists, dreams and aspirations, overcoming obstacles, women, women's history, women's history month | Leave a Comment

Compiling Rigorous Thematic Text Sets

March 4, 2013 – 11:32 am

Resident Literacy Expert Jaclyn DeForge compiles a set of thematically related texts for classroom instruction.

By Jaclyn DeForge | Posted in Curriculum Corner, Resources | Tags: A Full Moon is Rising, Book Lists, Caroline Hatton, common core standards, common core text sets, fiction, Gail Gibbons, guided reading, independent reading, informational text, Jane Yolen, literacy tips, Marilyn Singer, Nonfiction poetry, Owl Moon, Read Aloud, Reading Aloud, reading comprehension, realistic fiction, shared reading, Surprise Moon, text sets, The Moon Book, thematic text sets | Comments (4)

UPDATE: A More Multicultural Appendix B

February 11, 2013 – 7:00 am

Resident Literacy Expert Jaclyn DeForge shares a REVISED and UPDATED multicultural supplement to the Common Core Standard’s Appendix B list of exemplar texts.

By Jaclyn DeForge | Posted in Curriculum Corner, Resources | Tags: appendix b, Book Lists, common core standards, common core standards appendix b, common core standards ela appendix b, common core standards language arts appendix b, diversity, Educators, exemplar texts appendix B, guided reading, independent reading, multicultural books, Read Alouds, Reading Aloud, reading comprehension, smiling dogs | Leave a Comment

What’s in your classroom library? Rethinking Common Core Recommended Texts

January 7, 2013 – 7:30 am

Guest blogger Katie Cunningham is an Assistant Professor at Manhattanville College. Her teaching and scholarship centers around children’s literature, critical literacy, and supporting teachers to make their classrooms joyful and purposeful. Katie has presented at numerous national conferences and is the editor of The Language and Literacy Spectrum, New York Reading Association’s literacy journal. We live […]

By Hannah | Posted in Curriculum Corner, guest blogger | Tags: Book Lists, close reading, common core standards, diversity, Educators | Comments (4)

Rethinking Columbus Day

October 8, 2012 – 1:06 pm

In this post, our publicity intern Gina Chung offers some thoughts on reframing the Columbus Day holiday: Have you ever stopped to think about the implications of celebrating Columbus Day? While most of us probably grew up associating the holiday with classroom rhymes and pneumatic devices (“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” etc.), days […]

By Hannah | Posted in Holidays | Tags: Book Lists, Columbus Day, History, Native American, Race issues | Leave a Comment

Diverse Dystopias: A Book List

August 30, 2012 – 1:50 pm

In honor of the upcoming release of our new YA anthology, Diverse Energies, we thought we’d put together a list of dystopias with diversity. For the purposes of this list, our definition of diversity is: 1.) A book with a main character of color (not just secondary characters), or 2.) A book written by an […]

By Hannah | Posted in Book Lists, Curriculum Corner | Tags: Book Lists, diversity, dystopia, Multiracial, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Teens/YA, Tu Books, Why I Love Librarians | Comments (4)

Three Great Books to Celebrate the Olympics

August 2, 2012 – 11:13 am

It’s Olympics time! Have you all been glued to your televisions and various electronic devices for the last 5 days? Or, conversely, have you been dodging your televisions and electronic devices, trying to avoid spoilers? Either way, the Olympics are one of my favorite things. And while it’s tons of fun rooting for all the […]

By Hannah | Posted in Summer | Tags: Asian/Asian American, athletes, Book Lists, duke kahanamoku, Native American, Olympics, sammy lee | Leave a Comment

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