tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91250821674190547692023-11-16T07:46:27.157-08:00Everything LibraryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01760128707164811190noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125082167419054769.post-78956409778021353672016-04-01T05:59:00.002-07:002016-04-01T05:59:57.744-07:00National School Library Month is here! What are the kids reading?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Happy National School Library Month!</b></div>
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In honor of School Library Month, I'm going to share the most circulated titles in our library right now. One of my librarian friends, <a href="http://bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com/">Amanda</a>, blogs about what her kids are "really" reading from time to time. This helps teachers, parents and friends keep up with what are kids are interested in choosing when they visit the library. These titles are our top ten most circulated as of April 1, 2016.</div>
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This book of our favorite superheroes in grade school is lots of fun. </div>
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Bad Kitty's most recent adventure.</div>
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I'm so glad to still see <u>Wonder</u> in the Top 10!</div>
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Love all of Jerry Pallotta's <u>Who Would Win</u> series! Keep them coming, Jerry.</div>
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The most recent book in the <u>I Survived</u> series by Lauren Tarshis.</div>
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This is Book #2 in the new <u>Bad Guys</u> series. Very funny for all ages.</div>
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Yes. They are still reading <u>Minecraft</u>.</div>
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Still reading...Don't tell them they're reading nonfiction!</div>
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I love this new series by Aaron Blabey. Students of all ages enjoy this read. Book #1.</div>
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As a parent of a child who reads the Amulet series, we are always waiting for the next book in the series. We were so excited for the new arrival of Book #7. Did you know there will be ten books in this series? I've also heard rumor of a movie...</div>
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So happy to see our student choice reflected in the top ten! What great books they are all reading!</div>
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Thanks for supporting your school library and your child's choice to read!</div>
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Happy National School Library Month!</div>
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I love the month of April! Everyone comes back from Spring Break refreshed and ready for National Poetry Month! This April we are going to read, write, and share poetry all month in our library! Our first through third grade students will be given the opportunity to join in for a poetry slam the week of April 13th during their library time. The idea for the poetry slam came to me from Melvil Dewey, who calls himself the <a href="http://storyyeller.com/">StoryYeller</a>. Here is the final round of Dewey's Rap Battle of the Books:</div>
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I love the idea of sharing poetry and building fluency at the same time! Reading a poem along with music challenges the child to keep up with the steady beat. It's a great opportunity to perform and read with expression as well. And the best part is the kids will be sharing lots of great poetry with their peers!</div>
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Our students get to choose whether to participate in the poetry slam. They also get to choose a poem that is already written or they can write their own. They will select their favorite music to use as the background to keep the steady beat as they read their poem. Several students have chosen to present with friends in class. I've pulled several poetry books that lend themselves to being read along with a steady beat. The children can choose a poem from one of our books if they choose. I copy the poem for them and send it home with the letter at the top of this blog post so our parents can help our children practice presenting their poem at home if they'd like.</div>
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I can't wait for our kids to share their love of poetry with their classmates</div>
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For the first time last year, we decided our school needed a book award chosen by our very own students. One of my favorite colleagues, <a href="http://cjayneteach.com/blog/2014/01/13/the-literacy-series-part-1/">Chandra Verbic</a>, blogged about the development of our award. This year, we read so many books and it was hard to choose our three favorite. All of our first, second, and third grade students read several books in the library that have been buzzed about all year. We all voted and here are the results:</div>
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<u>Sam and Dave Dig a Hole</u> written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen. Honestly, I expected this book to come in first. The kids LOVE making predictions about this book. Reading this book outloud with the kids feels like you're in on some type of a secret joke that is happening in the story but you can't quite figure it out. If you read this book with your kids, be sure to notice the illustrations at the beginning of the book and compare them to the illustrations to the last page in the book. As you can see, this book won a Caldecott Honor this year! Yay! The kids made a great choice with this book.</div>
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The second in a trilogy of three titles (the third is coming soon), the wordless picture book taps into the wonderment of an amazing quest to save a king and his kingdom. <u>Journey</u>, the first book in the series of three titles, is a must read before <u>Quest</u> because the second story starts off where the first ended. The kids loved making predictions and putting together the pieces of this beautifully illustrated story on every page. We made text to text connections with this title and <u>Chester</u> by Melanie Watt and <u>Harold and the Purple Crayon</u> by Crockett Johnson.</div>
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<a href="https://www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner/">David Wiesner</a> is one of my favorite author/illustrators.</div>
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When I saw this tweet, I immediately had to look into it!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Both an <a href="http://bitu.com/spot/educators-guide">educator guide</a> as well as a <a href="http://bitu.com/spot/parents-guide">parent guide</a> are available to use with the app.</span></div>
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I like the idea that the students enter several different worlds inside the app as they pinch and zoom to look more closely. Every time the student zooms in, the story changes. It would be fun to let the kids explore the app and then decide which part of the story they'd like to tell. I think I would teach story elements along with the app and have the students map out the story elements for the part of the story they choose to tell before writing their stories. The educator's guide covers many skills including point of view, comparing and contrasting, story elements, and making inferences. Below is a list of titles that I feel lend themselves to pairing well with this app. Please leave a comment and suggest any more titles as well as ideas for implementing this app in the classroom or in your library.</div>
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<u>Zoom</u> and <u>Re-Zoom</u> by Istvan Banyai also draw the reader into the story with the illustrations-both are wordless picture books.</div>
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<u>Journey</u> and <u>Quest</u> by <a href="http://www.storybreathing.com/portfolio/books/">Aaron Becker</a> are wordless picture books that require the reader to look and look again to tell the details in the story. Also, be on the lookout for <u>Return</u> coming soon!</div>
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We've been enjoying a week of snow days this week! My great friend, school counselor and <a href="http://pawsitiveschoolcounseling.blogspot.com/2015/02/funny-friends.html">Paws-itive School Counselor blogger</a> sent this video to me early in the week and told me the kids would love it!</div>
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Immediately, I thought of the possibilities of pairing this video with books about unlikely friendships. Here are a few that came to mind...</div>
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Here is the book trailer for <u>Unlikely Friendships</u> by Jennifer S. Holland:</div>
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A few other titles that would work well with this topic are:</div>
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Visit Owen and Mzee's very own website <a href="http://www.owenandmzee.com/omweb/">here</a>.</div>
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You can also view Owen and Mzee's documentary:</div>
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Here are the last few titles that made me think of this topic:</div>
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Here is the trailer for <u>Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story</u>:</div>
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I asked Laura,<a href="http://pawsitiveschoolcounseling.blogspot.com/2015/02/funny-friends.html"> Paws-itive School Counselor blogger</a>, how she incorporated the video in a lesson. She shared this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-February-Activities-from-Teaching-Resources-61140">TPT unit written by Laura Candler</a> that she found for free which included an activity for the month of February which is International Friendship month.</div>
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Do you ever think back to a favorite book you read as a child? The following teacher collaboration took me back to my favorite memories of reading as a child...</div>
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One of our first grade teachers e-mailed and asked for books including timelines for her students and wanted to collaborate on a timeline creation project for her class. I started looking for ideas on Pinterest and ran across this <a href="http://theinspiredclassroom.blogspot.com/2013/08/for-past-couple-of-days-i-have-been.html">Inspired Classroom blog post</a>. Creating a reading timeline seemed to be the most logical decision because we have a library full of books for the kids to use to create their timelines. Here's how I got started with the collaboration:</div>
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1. I asked a fourth grade classroom to team with the first graders to act as mentors. The fourth graders would be able to efficiently help the first graders find the books they needed in the library as well as provide direction in the creation of the students' timelines.</div>
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2. I polled a few teachers/staff around the building about the books they grew up reading.</div>
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3. I used the conversations from Step #2 to create some mystery reading timelines as visual examples for the students (see mine above). We shared the mystery timelines by looking at each book title and guessing which staff member in the building the timeline belonged to. It was a fun way to get the kids excited about this project and creating their own timelines.</div>
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This mystery timeline belonged to our assistant principal. We organized the books she chose in chronological order by the ages in which she read the books.</div>
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In addition to the visual timeline, our first grade teacher also created her own reading timeline on chart paper which was the format she wanted her students to create.</div>
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Our student teams began by brainstorming a list of books they've read since they were young.</div>
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They then pulled the books off of the bookshelves (this was a good practice using the library catalog and finding specific call numbers). We asked that they find a minimum of five titles.</div>
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After the partners brainstormed and pulled their titles, they were ready to start designing their reading timelines. We asked each child to write the age range in which they read each title, the title and author of the book, and a short description about the book. Ex: "I loved to read this book over and over with my mom when I was young," or, "This is the first book I could read all by myself."</div>
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When the teams were finished with their timelines, we photographed the first and fourth graders together posing with their final product.</div>
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I think this project could work successfully with students in 1st through adulthood. Students with more experience as readers will find it easier to choose from a larger selection of books they've read. It is fun to take a walk down memory lane and see how we've each grown as readers.</div>
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I've been inspired by a media specialist friend, <a href="http://bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com/2015/02/top-10-nonfiction-circulating-booksso.html">Amanda</a>, to run reports about the most popular books that have circulated through our library this year. She recently read the amazing Scope Notes blog written by <a href="http://100scopenotes.com/2015/01/28/the-circs-so-far-the-10-most-popular-books-in-our-school-library/">Travis Jonker</a> who posted the most popular reads in his library. I've run circulation reports from the beginning of the year through the end of January and the following books are the books that have been read the most by our students! There are some books that are checked out immediately as soon as they come back in...every day! It's fun to take a look at the stats and see what our children CHOOSE to read and enjoy! </div>
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Our kids LOVE all of the <u>Who Would Win</u> books written by Jerry Pallotta. Luckily, he keeps cranking them out! Keep up the good work, Jerry! Our kids can't get enough of this great nonfiction!<br />
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One of my personal favorites this year. If you check out <u>Wonder</u>, you've got to read <u>Julian's Story</u> and <u>Pluto: A Wonder Story</u> which is available for the Kindle this February 10th. You can also check out <u>365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts</u>. I love the way R.J. Palacio continues sharing more sides of Auggie's story with each title.<br />
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Our students loved learning about the various neighborhoods or sections in the nonfiction section of the library with this gingerbread-themed scavenger hunt!</div>
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First, we read <u>The Library Gingerbread Man</u> written by <a href="http://www.dottienderle.com/">Dotti Enderle</a> and illustrated by Colleen M. Madden. I absolutely adore this tale! I had the kids tell their neighbors what they knew about the original story of The Gingerbread Man before reading and after we read we compared the two.</div>
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We also sequenced the characters who chased the gingerbread man through the library after reading.</div>
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In the story, the gingerbread man escapes from his book in the 398.2 neighborhood and is chased through the library by various characters that escaped from other neighborhoods in the nonfiction section. To get the kids up and moving and familiar with some of the neighborhoods in the nonfiction section of the library, I sent the kids on a scavenger hunt to find six gingerbread men that were loose in the nonfiction section.</div>
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I colored one part of each gingerbread man on purpose. I hid these six gingerbread men in various areas in the nonfiction section. One was hidden in each of the sections from 400 through 900.</div>
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Each of my six teams were given a clipboard with a blank gingerbread man, a set of clues, and a cheat sheet for the Dewey Deciman system.</div>
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My sixth graders wrote <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By6XfGaJ0ypScnVlVjllX09kQ3c&usp=sharing">clues</a> (4 lines each with ABCB rhyme scheme) that would help each team find the gingerbread men that were hiding in the nonfiction section. I highlighted one clue for each team (<a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By6XfGaJ0ypScnVlVjllX09kQ3c&usp=sharing">six clues</a> in all which correlate with the six neighborhoods that the gingerbread man runs through in the book) and told the teams to start with that clue and work through each of the clues in order. That way, the teams stayed separated for the most part.</div>
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When a group found a gingerbread man, they wrote the correct hundreds classification on the colored part of the hidden gingerbread man. For example, if a gingerbread man was hidden in the 700's and that gingerbread man had his left mitten colored, the team wrote the number 700 on the left mitten of their gingerbread man on their chart. </div>
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Here is a team finding their gingerbread man in the 400's where the word wizard hopped out of his book in the story.</div>
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Gingerbread man hiding in the 700's where the origami books can be located...just like the origami bird that chased the gingerbread man in the story.</div>
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I had second grade label each nonfiction section with the correct hundreds number, but for K and 1st I modified the lesson. To help them become familiar with the neighborhoods in the nonfiction section, they only had to find the gingerbread man and color in the part of the gingerbread man that was also colored on the hidden one. That way, they didn't have to identify the hundreds section, only find it.</div>
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As some of you know, our library has moved two times. No, not magically. We've boxed and packed and moved every single item in our library two times. Whew! The exciting part is that we're back in our original library space! We spent a lot of time at our school's inception redesigning our library space. Now, it's exciting to be back in that space and re-think how it will look eight years later. Here are some before and after pictures with a few details...</div>
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I love the colors in our library. Our color palette was inspired by Michael P. White's illustrations in the book, <u>The Library Dragon</u>. As you can see, we had a lot to unpack this summer. Mr. Victory and James built new bookshelves for our fiction section because our collection has grown quite a bit in eight years! </div>
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These are holding up very well as you can see in the photo above (letter D in easy fiction section). They are also great to use to hang small signs that signify our reference, biography, and special series sections. These are great to have around!</div>
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Our gutter bookshelves are one of my favorite additions to our library space. Home Depot donated $50.00 towards the purchase of materials for our gutters. The total cost for two nine foot gutters and all installation parts was about $90.00. Our gutter bookshelves hold nonfiction books that need to be shown off! Our city schools purchased the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Six-Slick-Occasional-Table/dp/B000S6O72S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412629443&sr=8-1&keywords=avenue+six+slick+cube+occasional+table">chairs</a> (bottom right) for our kids to use when looking for books, sitting and reading, or even when they need a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Six-Slick-Occasional-Table/dp/B000S6O72S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412629443&sr=8-1&keywords=avenue+six+slick+cube+occasional+table">small tabletop</a>. The great thing about our chairs is they are also portable and can be moved around to be used wherever they are needed.</div>
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I used wrapping paper for the background of the bulletin board that is black and white. I also framed my monthly calendar with an old black frame. I purchased the individual letters that spelled out, READ, and painted a canvas board black and Mod Podged the letters on to the board. We have lots of secondary lighting around the room that is used instead of the overhead lights. I also have a whole wall of windows and I open the blinds a bit for natural light as well.</div>
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This year we celebrated Reading in the Schools Day by taking a step back in time. When our school began, we used the story of <u>The Library Dragon</u> written by Carmen Agra Deedy and illustrated by Michael P. White as the inspiration to re-design our library space. Now that we're back in our old school building, we thought it would be fun to re-visit the story so the kids know a little about the history of our library space.</div>
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With these amazing books as our guide, we began to plan our event. Each of our teachers signed up readers to visit their classrooms for Reading in the Schools Day. Our talented group of PTA volunteers helped to set the mood for the story in our building. They sent home one dragon scale with each child to decorate as they wished. The scales made up our very own library dragon that scaled the entrance of the school. </div>
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Our volunteers took pictures of our kids reading beside the Library Dragon. They created a bulletin board with all of the kids pictures that stated, "Reading Enchants Us." This kids loved to see the principal, teachers, and fellow students reading on the board.</div>
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This year I am changing my outlook on my lessons just a bit. I would like to incorporate a center-based review of concepts that I have taught to my students about library skills. I got my idea from Cari S. Young's professional book: <u>The Centered School Library</u>.</div>
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First, I am teaching a lesson with the whole group about a new library concept and the next time the class comes to the library, we are reviewing the skill with stations. Here is what our call number stations looked like:</div>
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Our first station came from an idea from Pat Miller's<u> Stretchy Library Lessons</u>. This station is called "Sticks and Stones." I had all four children work together on the carpet for this station. I bought cheap rocks at Big Lots and wrote easy call numbers on each one. Then, I wrote the author's full name on a corresponding popsicle stick. The students dump all of the sticks and stones out on the carpet and have to work together as a team to match the author's name to their call number. If a team needs more of a challenge, see if they can also alphabetize the call numbers after they match them.</div>
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At our second station, students worked in groups of two at a pocket chart to alphabetize easy call numbers. I tried to make the first call number sort pretty easy. In the second sort, students had to alphabetize to the second letter and in the third they had to alphabetize to the third letter of the author's last name.</div>
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I called our third station: "Be the librarian." Students worked in teams of two to alphabetize books on an actual bookshelf. Our teachers have these in their classrooms and I just asked to borrow two for the week. The books on the top shelf were already in ABC order. Students had to take library books from the bottom shelf and alphabetize them correctly on the top shelf.</div>
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We called our fourth station: "Call number paper plates." Students took a pile of paper plates and worked in teams of two to alphabetize them correctly on the floor from left to right. If you want to try this with your whole class, you can give every child a paper plate and make the class line themselves up in ABC order correctly from left to right. This is fun to do at the end of class. I call it a "super challenge!"</div>
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At our last station, students used I-Pads to individually play an online game called<a href="http://www.mrs-lodges-library.com/shelver/"> Shelve-It from Mrs. Lodge's Library</a>. This is an amazing game! The kids can choose to shelve easy fiction or nonfiction call numbers and they can choose three separate levels of play. Each level has a different number of books to shelve ranging from three to eight. This way, each child can play at their own personal difficulty level. The kids LOVED this game.</div>
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Overall, I felt like our first stations were a success! I used these for first and second grades. If you have any ideas for other stations for call numbers, please post them in the comment section and share. Thanks so much!</div>
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This month's <a href="http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/experience/articles/2013/jul/bfc-six-ways-teachers-on-board.asp?cid=sbf/e/20130715/email///bfc_enews//SarahSvarda_Story//////&ym_MID=1485592&ym_rid=3492159">Scholastic Book Fairs Insider article</a> is about getting your teachers on board for your book fair! I've shared six easy ways to involve your teachers for your best fair yet! Please add a comment if you have any other great ideas to share. Thanks!</div>
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My principal has given me homework. It's alright, though...it's fun homework. She asked me to share at our faculty retreat this year about collaboration. She feels like we have resources that we don't always tap into available in our school building...both in special area teachers as well as print materials. Don't we all? We get so busy with writing lesson plans and trying to figure out what we're doing tomorrow that we sometimes overlook amazing opportunities right before our eyes. That is what makes summer so great! We have plenty of time to relax and collect fresh ideas for the upcoming school year.</div>
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I've spent a lot of time this summer reading. Especially nonfiction. As I've been reading, I've been brainstorming possible classroom/library collaborations for next year. I'm making this list to remind myself of the great opportunities that are possible next year when I'm feeling overwhelmed and out of creativity. Each of the following picture or nonfiction books lends itself to student excitement, research, and content-area writing! I'll write a little ditty about each book to give you a start with ideas...</div>
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Jennifer Fosberry has written several of these books including: <u>My Name is Not Isabella, Isabella, Star of the Story, and Isabella Girl On the Go</u>. Each books lends itself to fun research about people. Have each child choose a biography about someone that they are interested in or curious about and create a page for a class book that will teach about several famous people. It's fun to read Alexander for the boys and Isabella for the girls!</div>
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This book is a lot of fun! A great way to incorporate research, math, and writing. Choose a topic that your students are interested in or that you are teaching in your content area. Use the <u>Guinness Book of World Records</u> as well as reference materials and nonfiction books to learn about numbers relating to your topic. You can also collaborate with your art teacher to have the students create illustrations for the class book incorporating the numbers that they are teaching about their topic.</div>
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I have to thank my library friend, Shannon, for sharing this idea. I've always taught nonfiction features with nonfiction books. She suggested teaching features with Scaredy Squirrel books as well. Genius idea! The kids eat these books up!</div>
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This book was our principal's pick last year at our Scholastic book fair and I couldn't keep it on the shelves! Talk about high interest! This book is fun because it includes real photos of each animal and fun facts about their teeth and also incorporates illustrated pictures of children with the animal teeth and what it would be like to live with specific animal adaptations. Choose any specific adaptation you want...feet, teeth, noses, eyes, etc. Another fun book to pair with this one that lets kids guess specific animal adaptations is <u>What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?</u> by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.</div>
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I love all of the books written by Hanoch Piven. He uses found objects that relate to his subjects to teach about them. Genius. This would be a fun collaboration with your art teacher as well. Our second grade teachers used this book this year to introduce their president unit. Each child chose a specific president they wanted to learn more about, researched about them, and created their own illustration with found objects that they brought from home. They had a museum in our cafeteria and students in other classes could tour the museum and learn about each of the presidents. The students presenting had to share about what each item in the illustration meant or taught about their president. Visit<a href="http://www.pivenworld.com/"> Piven's website</a> to learn more about his books and his apps that could also be used to create the illustrations for your book. </div>
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I used Ann Whitehead Nagda as a nonfiction mentor this year. What I love about the books in this math series is she tells a story on one side of a two-page spread and the other side of the page shows the math that ties in with the story. It would be a lot of fun to teach your kids about Nagda's books in the math series and have them write their own about using math in their everyday world. A few ideas would be cafeteria math, playground math, school garden math, etc. Assign a student or group of students to illustrate the word problems for specific parts of the story after you have written the story together as a class. Visit <a href="http://www.annnagda.com/">Nagda's website</a> to see all of her books in the math series.</div>
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Eileen has written two other books similar to this one: <u>Do You Have a Hat? and Do You Have a Cat?</u></div>
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Each book has one thing in common. <u>Do You Have a Dog?</u> is all about famous people in history that had dogs. Same with the cat and hats. It's a fun twist on biographies of famous people. Write your own version with your class and let them vote on the similarity that you are looking for.</div>
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David A. Adler has written many books about specific math topics for kids. This is a fun book including word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division about birds. It's a great book to use for a lesson about the words you look for in word problems that tell you to add, subtract, multiply, or divide. Your kids could write their own word problems about about science or social studies content that you need to cover in your classroom using the key words that tell them the operation needed to use to solve. Then, let them swap word problems and figure each others out.</div>
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This is one of my favorite books of all time! Question Boy has questions about everything and little Miss Know-It-All has all the answers...except...she gets it wrong sometimes. Read this book to your class and see if the kids can guess which (1) fact is incorrect on each page when Miss-Know-It-All starts spewing random information. After reading, apply this idea to a content area that you have been teaching in science or social studies. Let the kids each write out three true facts and one that is incorrect but sounds reasonable. Hide the correct answers somewhere. Publish the work in a class book (and use it later for review).</div>
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This is a book that you could use with two grade levels together! Choose a subject that you teach at different levels. For example: plants, space, animal adaptations, weather, matter, etc. Work together with a teacher in that grade level that would like to research the same topic with their class. Each page has the same information...only the page on the left side has information at a higher level for an older student to read and the information on the right is written for a younger audience! Perfect possibility for book buddies! Check out the <a href="http://www.webothread.com/server/TreasureBay/website/main/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=30">We Both Read website</a> to see more titles like this one.</div>
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Fly Guy and nonfiction! This is the BEST idea ever! All you have to do is choose a topic and have your kids teach about it from Fly Guy's point of view! The kids eat these books up and can't wait to write their own! Be sure to watch for the next Fly Guy book this fall: <u>Fly Guy Presents: Space.</u></div>
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I used this Elephant and Piggie book this year to teach the fiction as well as nonfiction parts of a book. For specific information about this project, read <a href="http://libraryeverything.blogspot.com/2013/02/were-in-book.html">my blog post here.</a></div>
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This is a great nonfiction book with a question and answer format. This is a great text to use to introduce inquiry with your kids. Perfect for K-2. Let each of your children ask their own questions based on their own personal inquiry and research to find the answer to their question. They will also learn more about their subject than just the answer to the question. You can have your students include dash facts on their page for the book as well. Each student publishes a two spread page for the class book.</div>
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Father and daughter team Eric Yoder and Natalie Yoder have written several titles in this series. They have also written a separate series with one minute mysteries you solve with math. Your kids can write these about any content area you are teaching! I'd start out by reading these throughout the year so your students are very familiar with the layout before trying to write their own. </div>
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Have your kids publish comics! The <a href="http://www.capstonekids.com/characters/Max-Axiom/index.html">Max Axiom series</a> of comic books covers a variety of science topics to model for your students how to teach a specific content area using a comic.</div>
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Having our kids research and publish their own Who Would Win books is one of my favorite collaborations with our third grade teachers. I think you could successfully have your 4th or 5th grade publish these books as well. I use the <a href="http://tntel.tnsos.org/">Tennessee Electronic Library</a> for the free World Book Kids. Using World Book Kids online, have your kids visit the World of Animals to choose two animals they would like to compare. The World of Animals even creates an amazing venn diagram that your students can print off to use to begin sizing up their two animals. Follow Pallotta's format for the book. Have your kids compare apples to apples for each animal on each two-page spread. We let each child publish their own Who Would Win book based on the two animals that they choose in the World of Animals. </div>
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Check out the newest Who Would Win title available for purchase through the Scholastic Teacher Store on September 16, 2013!</div>
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Your students now have to be prepared to write support their opinions <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/324188873146030908/">based on evidence</a> from the text. Common Core says so. :) The <a href="http://www.capstonepub.com/product/9781429685948">This or That series</a> is perfect for using evidence from the text to support which decision the student would make. The series includes history debate, sports debate, survival debate, and animal debate. You'll find something for 2nd grade through 6th in this book. Have your students write which decision they would make based on two choices they are given in the text. Then, have them use evidence from the text to support their opinions. Your kids will eat these books up! I cannot keep them on the bookshelves in the library!</div>
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Common Core also says that looking at several different points of view is also important. Use this <a href="http://www.capstonepub.com/product/9781404866737">series published by Capstone</a> to teach your children to look at a classic fairy tale or folk tale through an alternate character's eyes. Have your students re-write a favorite tale from another character's point of view.</div>
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This book is a professional book written by Nancy Polette. Students research and write several different versions of a historical characters story. They work in teams to write each version as a different part in a reader's theater. Students perform the reader's theater for the class and their classmates have to decide which account of the famous person's life is true. Perfect for any social studies unit!</div>
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There's lots of stuff from history that you wouldn't want to be! The great thing is this series covers it all. From not wanting to be Egyptian Mummies to Ninja Warriors...Choose a time period that was not desirable and have your kids write about how much it stunk! </div>
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I saved my new favorite for last. I read about<a href="http://www.guysread.com/books/title/amazon"> this series on Jon Scieszka's Guys Read website</a>. When you start reading this book, you are encouraged to read the short field guide in the back of the book that gives you suggestions about survival in your location. The Amazon field guide had tips about setting up camp, information about venomous snakes, etc. As you read the book, you are given scenarios in which you have to make a decision about your survival. Choose correctly and your adventure continues. Make a wrong move and it can be all over. Your kids will eat this book up! This book would be a challenge to replicate b/c of the various pages that skip around through the book based on the decisions you make, but I'm sure each of you know a student who could do this! Give them the challenge...think about writing these about surviving historical events...</div>
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One of my favorite things to do is meet up with my favorite friends at Barnes and Noble or the closest local bookstore and share books for hours! The next-best thing is keeping up to date with what your friends are reading and rating on Good Reads.</div>
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My good friend, counselor <a href="http://sassyschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/">Laura Filtness</a>, gave me a good idea this summer. I created my Good Reads account last year and honestly...I haven't used it much this year. Laura shared with me recently that she was creating bookshelves for all of the different books that she shares with teachers, students, and families in our school as our school counselor. She has created specific bookshelves for self-esteem, sharing, manners, divorce, etc. I love this idea for two reasons. </div>
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Number one: she's my friend on Good Reads so when we have a student at school who needs advice about a book for a specific need, I can go to Laura's list and pick the perfect book. </div>
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Secondly, this idea inspired me to create a bookshelf for my summer reading this year. I always start off the school year by sharing with the kids what I've read over the summer. I will be able to open my Summer Reading 2013 bookshelf and remember everything that I've read as well as re-cap my summaries and share my ratings with my students. </div>
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A third way that I'd like to use the site is similar to Laura's. I'd like to also create bookshelves for specific lessons that I teach in the library...this summer I'd like to create bookshelves for book care, map skills, introducing reference books, author studies, and more. I'll have to get busy with that with all of my time off this summer!</div>
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As I shared before, you also get to see what your friends are reading! I am going to need all of my friends to create accounts right away so we can all see and share what we're reading. </div>
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For the past two years, we have offered a parent workshop about summer reading in our library. The workshops are a great way to educate our parents about the resources that are available to them to keep their kids reading over the summer. Our parent workshops are organized by our amazing guidance counselor, <a href="http://sassyschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/">Ms. Filtness</a>. This year, we decided to make our theme an ice cream theme. The picture above shows the items we are including in the packet to send home with the parents for each child. The fancy packet, with labels created by our own amazing music teacher, <a href="http://www.cityschools.net/discovery/shepherd/Site/Welcome.html">Mrs. Shepherd</a>, included:</div>
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a reading BINGO game with tickets that parents can fill out with rewards for reading in different places this summer. We found this great free resource from the <a href="http://happyhomefairy.com/2012/05/21/how-to-make-summer-reading-fun/">Happy Home Fairy site</a>.</div>
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At our parent workshop, we will share our favorite local as well as online summer reading programs. I've also pinned the best resources on my <a href="http://pinterest.com/sarahsvarda/summer-reading/">summer reading board</a> on Pinterest. Visit my website to try out some great sites for <a href="http://www.cityschools.net/discovery/svarda/Svarda_Site/Online_Storytime.html">online storytime</a> this summer as well. The following information is included in the handout we provide to parents:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Discovery School<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="https://pinterest.com/sarahsvarda/summer-reading/">https://pinterest.com/sarahsvarda/summer-reading/</a>
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Jarett Krosoczka, author of the Lunch Lady graphic novels, decided to implement this special day for our school lunch superheroes! He even started a <a href="http://pinterest.com/studiojjk/school-lunch-superhero-day/">Pinterest board</a> and has a <a href="http://www.schoollunchsuperheroday.com/">website</a> dedicated to sharing ideas and materials for this special event.</div>
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Be sure to purchase the new<u><a href="http://www.randomhousekids.com/books/detail/220536-lunch-lady-and-the-video-game-villain?isbn=9780307980793#.UYhYxo4kXe4"> Lunch Lady and the Video Game Villain</a></u> book for your library!</div>
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This might seem like a really random time of year to share this lesson, but something made me think about it today. I was re-hanging everything that had to be hidden or covered during TCAP testing. As I happily hung the maps of the library back up, I was reminded of this lesson and how much I enjoy it. </div>
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At the beginning of the year, I teach everyone about maps. Maps help us find what we need. Kindergarten students need a map of the school so they can find the library. My other students know how to find the library, but it is my job to help them find the books and neighborhoods in the library independently. A great way of helping the students get acquainted with the library is having them map it themselves!</div>
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First, we start off by learning about why we need maps. Two of my favorite books to use are:</div>
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<u>My Map Book</u> by Sara Fanelli and</div>
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Next, we talk about how the library has neighborhoods just students live in neighborhoods! Each neighborhood has different call numbers on the spines of the books so the students can find what they are looking for quickly and easily. This is a <a href="http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=be5975d7-8faf-4dd7-8365-3a615a5033e5">free lesson from the SMART exchange</a> that I like to pair with this lesson for my kindergarten and first grade students. I've edited this lesson a bit and added a picture of my neighborhood and house with street address using Google Maps so we can talk about neighborhoods and addresses (call numbers) in the library.</div>
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My older students enjoy mapping the library on their own. I give them choices of different kinds of candy: Skittles, Hot Tamales, peppermints, Lemon Heads, and Mike and Ike's work well. We talk about cardinal and intermediate directions and the neighborhoods in the library. Each child has a blank template that I've created on my SMART board and walks around the library and labels each bookshelf with its correct neighborhood name: B for biography, E for easy fiction, F for fiction, etc. Then, each student gets to decide how they would like to use each type of candy as symbols on their map designating different neighborhoods in the library. They also have to include a map key that shows what each symbol means. Students receive their candy to label their maps when their sloppy copy has been completed and checked. The hardest part about this lesson is hot gluing the candy down on the maps, so you might want to have a parent or assistant on hand to help you glue the candy on the maps. Here is what some of our finished products looked like:</div>
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Whew! The end of the year is always a stressful time in the library. All of my student library books are due next Friday so I can begin running inventory...the act of scanning everything in the library with a barcode! Fun times. It is always quite a task getting all of the library books returned. I found a post on Pinterest today that I think will help out this year. The idea came from the <a href="http://borchardtlibrary.edublogs.org/2013/05/01/end-of-year-countdown/comment-page-1/#comment-820">Ruth Borchardt Elementary Library</a>. The librarian displays end of the year numbers for her students and faculty to view in the library. Here is a picture of the display in their library:</div>
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I absolutely LOVE this idea! Instead of posting the numbers in the library, I think I will announce the totals daily on the morning announcements and e-mail the numbers to our teachers as well. I am going to encourage our teachers to use this opportunity to have their students write their own word problems using our data. Hopefully, it will get the kids thinking of how important it is to return all of their library books and get some math practice in at the same time.</div>
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Nancy Jo Lambert, the librarian at Ruth Borchardt Elementary, has some great resources on her <a href="http://borchardtlibrary.edublogs.org/">edublog</a> and I'm excited about learning more from her! </div>
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This week I taught my kindergarten, first, and second graders about our U.S. Children's Poet Laureate: J. Patrick Lewis. First, we talked about what laureate means. Most of our students had never heard of this title before. </div>
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Wow! I told my kids that must mean that he's super creative and really smart, too! We talked about a U.S. Poet Laureate's job. J. Patrick Lewis is responsible for getting kids around the United States really excited about reading and writing poetry. He gets to visit schools all over the United States! What a great job. The kids also guessed that he has to write lots of poetry, too. J. Patrick Lewis has definitely been busy writing and publishing poetry. </div>
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We talked about J. Patrick Lewis' picture. I wonder why he'd choose to put this picture on his website? The kids said:</div>
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He looks like he is a fun guy.</div>
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He must like to write funny poetry.</div>
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We listened to J. Patrick Lewis share a funny poem called Mosquito.</div>
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I like the way Lewis also shares with the kids why he wrote this poem. His son was climbing up the slide one day on the playground and his pants fell down and a bee stung him on the bottom. He said his son was very hurt and he didn't want someone to be hurt in the poem, so he changed the bee sting to a mosquito bite.</div>
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After watching the video, I showed the kids the poem and we compared it to a fiction book. The kids noticed:</div>
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You can read the poem on one page.</div>
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The poem has lines.</div>
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The poem has paragraphs. We talked about how in poetry these are called stanzas.</div>
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You can choose to read anywhere in a poetry book. You don't have to read beginning to end.</div>
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Next, we shared an anthology of poems edited by J. Patrick Lewis and published by National Geographic.</div>
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I told the kids that I picked this book up at Barnes and Noble and purchased it before I even knew I was going to teach about J. Patrick Lewis! My favorite part about this book is that the real pictures really pair well with the over two-hundred poems that are written by a variety of poets. We watched and listened as J. Patrick Lewis read one of his poems from the book:</div>
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Finally, I shared that J. Patrick Lewis is really good at writing riddles. The next book we put on the Elmo so the kids could see the words in the riddles and use the picture clues as well to try to solve each one. We checked our answers in the back of the book after we read several examples. </div>
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Each of the riddles in <u>Spot the Plot</u> is about a storybook and I like the way the riddles are about classic picture books as well as some that are more recent. We also talked about why the boy and girl are dressed as detectives. A fun extension for this lesson would be to have your kids write riddles about other picture books that they love. Fifth and sixth graders could even write the riddles for your younger students and it would get them back into your easy fiction books in a sneaky way!</div>
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For more information about J. Patrick Lewis and his many other poetry books, check out <a href="http://www.jpatricklewis.com/">his website</a>. You can also visit the <a href="http://jpatricklewis.blogspot.com/">J. Patrick Lewis blogspot</a> for guides and trailers for his poetry books.</div>
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I'm so excited that it's National Poetry Month! Poetry was always one of my favorite writing units when I taught third grade and I love it even more now that I'm in the library surrounded by so many great poetry books! I am going to share a few of my favorite books and resources in two posts because there are so many things to share! Let's talk books first. It's hard to narrow my choices, but these are the books that I come back to every year as well as a few new titles:<br />
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This book is beautiful and I use it with kindergarten. Kristine O'Connell George has tons of information on her <a href="http://www.kristinegeorge.com/fold_me_a_poem.html">website</a> that you can use with the book including a <a href="http://www.kristinegeorge.com/pdfs/Teachers%20Guide%20Fold%20Me%20a%20Poem.pdf">teaching guide</a> walks you through writing apostrophe, mask, and process poems with your children. We fold an origami dog (in the teaching guide) together after learning about each type of poem, we vote on the type of poem we'd like to write about our dog, write it together as a class, and then the kids write their poem inside their origami dog. I've always thought it would be a lot of fun to make huge origami animals with chart paper and let the kids choose to write their own poem about their animals after we've modeled the writing together.<br />
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Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer is my next favorite poetry book. This book will blow your mind! Each poem can be read forwards or backwards, each time presenting a different point of view. Amazing! Some of your kids might be brave enough to try this strategy in their own poetry.</div>
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When I checked out Marilyn Singer's website, I found that she has written a new book similar to <u>Mirror Mirror</u>! Yeah! She calls it a book of reversos. Here's an excerpt from her website:</div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;">Fairy Tales</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Read my book.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">And then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">just imagine this,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">me in my garret, working all alone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">how hard it was to write.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I need to tell the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">the truth,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I beg your pardon–</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">fairies helped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Fairies helped?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I beg your pardon!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">So, here goes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">the truth:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I need to tell the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">how hard it was to write,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">me in my garret, working all alone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Just imagine this,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">read my book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;">AMAZING! Everyone needs both of these books in their personal library! Now that I've checked out <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1138178298"></span>Singer's site<span id="goog_1138178299"></span></a>, I think I'm going to have to teach an author study spotlighting just her books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: x-small;">The next book is one that I'd suggest to any classroom teacher as a read-aloud while they are teaching their poetry unit. The whole book is written in verse!</span><br />
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and they will be able to follow Jack into his new school year with Miss Stretchberry. Download the teaching guide for both books <a href="http://www.sharoncreech.com/pdfs/LoveDogHateCat_TG.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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The cool thing about this book is that many different types of poems tell the story. Each poem is labeled by its type...you could use this book to teach different types of poetry with your kids.</div>
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Another poetry book that I just purchased at Barnes and Noble is the<u> National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry</u>.</div>
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Before reading poetry in this book, watch J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate, read his poem, "<a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/movies-books-kids/animal-poetry-kids/">Make the Earth Your Companion</a>," from the book. The book also includes favorite poems from Robert Frost, Jack Prelutsky, Emily Dickinson, and more. I especially love the beautiful photographs in this poetry book.</div>
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My final favorite is <a href="http://www.douglasflorian.com/">Douglas Florian</a>. Anything that Florian writes, I love. My favorite is:</div>
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I like that Florian writes about nonfiction topics. I learned so many cool facts about bees in this book! Two more of Florian's newest books are:</div>
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I think Florian's books really appeal to boys as well. Something that would be fun to do with Florian's poems is have your kids write poetry about nonfiction subjects and illustrate their own poems by using <a href="http://www.douglasflorian.com/dfs02newpaintings_a01.html">Florian's style of artwork</a>. </div>
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<u>This is Just To Say</u> by <a href="http://www.joycesidman.com/">Joyce Sidman</a> is a book of apologies and forgiveness. This would be a great lesson to use to collaborate with your school counselor! There is a <a href="http://www.joycesidman.com/books/this-is-just-to-say-poems/this_is_just_rg.pdf">reader's guide</a> and <a href="http://www.brookpub.com/default.aspx?pg=sd&st=THIS+IS+JUST+TO+SAY&p=2437">play adaptation</a> for the book as well.</div>
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the plums
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they were delicious
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