This extraordinary poet is one of a kind. Great poetry book 📖 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Gorman. Amanda Gorman is a seeker, a seer, a speaker of the most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems will make you feel. A book of poetry so alive you'll want to hold it, protect it, and read it all at once, and then immediately read it again. Can you relate....

Great book for black history month 😊👍🏽 also for facts on the black culture and experience, individuals. This book is written by author Deborah Willis. Great picture s for displays, etc. Covers poets, musicians, actors and actresses and more .

This is a great book that will help those who may be struggling with connecting with their students. If you teach in lower income based School system and environment and need a little insight ☺️ this book is for you ☺️

Contemporary MF-RA picture book, Caldecott Award and Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner. A beautifully designed children's book 📖, raw zigzags of color convey a girl's rage in this compassionate volume which proposes what to do when we get Really, Really Angry!! Everyone gets angry 😡, and that's it's okay to get angry, but it's how we deal with that anger & that is the lesson we learn in this storybook. Great read aloud lesson for teaching emotions.

National Bk Award Winner, Newbery Medal Award, & NAACP Award for Outstanding Literature, P/LC/RA/Memoir, an exquisite metaphorical verse Woodson weaves, a patchwork of her life experiences. From her supportive, loving maternal grandparents, her mother's insistence on good grammar, to the lifetime friend she meets in NY, that covers readers with warmth & sensitivity no child should miss. NY Times bestseller, an addition for a classroom library.

This wonderful rhyming picture book 📖 is about Sam I Am's attempt to convince the narrator to try green eggs and ham. Offering the narrator different locations and dining partners to try the delicacy. A wonderful NF/RA, repetitive story of trying something new hesitantly that may look or sound different but finding the new thing to be great.
https://m.youtube.com>watch-green-eggs-and-ham
https://www.suessville.com>book
RA, resources, activities.

Caldecott Honor book 📖, RA-NF picture story book of alphabet, and in the process, transforms the mundane by challenging viewers to look at such commonplace urban structures like 💦 towers, pipes, manholes and things you see in cities, which encourages children to look for letters in each painting 🎨🖌️. Incorporating art into your activities and expanding students imagination and resources.
https://m.youtube.com>watch alphabet city read aloud.

This historical fiction novel, companion to the National Jewish book Award Winner The Night Journey, named a Lupine Award Honor book for the state of Maine and Association of Jewish Libraries Notable CB of Jewish content. Children's young novel, chapter book great for book clubs, literary circles, discussion sessions and activities. In 1897, gifted violinist Reuven Bloom, experiences as a member of the Jewish community.
www.katherinelasky.com

This RF, novel is a little girl named Bea, her biggest wish of having a sister when her Dad decides to marry his partner Jesse. This chapter book covers content of divorce and making a new family, the questions and feelings these circumstances brings. Grade levels 3-7, great book club for discussion sessions and journals. This brilliant modern classic written by Newbery Award Medalist Rebecca Stead.
https://www.audible.com - fluency exercises

This wonderful picture book is packed full of fun ideas for weaving science into cross-curiculum lessons, and is an invigorating and essential resource for Key 1 teachers and science co-ordinators seeking to inject some creativity into their science lessons. Contextualizing science in a story that pupils know & love. Contains a wide range of activities & investigations. Engaging science learning while while extending aspects of English curriculum.

This wonderfully illustrated HF, RA, children's literature from New York bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia, is a Newbery Award Winner, National Book Award Finalist for young people's literature, and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Three sisters, Delphine, Vonetta, & Fern are sent to visit their mother in Oakland, California during the summer of 1968.
https://www.rif.org>book>one-crazy-summer, printables, class activities, & teacher resource.

This wonderful TL, RA picture book is about a family of rabbits. Flospy, Mospy, Cottontail, and Peter who live with their mother in a sand bank, underneath the root of a very big for tree. The story follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around the garden of Mr. Gregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother.....you will have to read it to find out what happens next. Great children's literature.

This TL-RA, PB, a European fairy tale about a little girl & a Big Bad 🐺 Wolf. It's origins can be traced back to the 10th century to several European fairy tales, including one from Italy called The False Grandmother. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault & The Brothers Grimm.
https://read.activelylearn.com> red riding hood - teacher resources.
https://www.pinterest.com>red riding hood - 1,140 educational resources.

This wonderful, AB-B, NF, LC-BC, autobiography of passion and struggle, tells his life story. Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Biography & Autobiography/Cultural Heritage/Political/Political Science/Civil Rights. Audie Award for Audiobiography/Memoir 2021-Malcolm X & Lawrence Fishburne. Audie Award for Best Male Narrator 2021-Malcom X & Lawrence Fishburne. https://goodreads.com>show.

Acclaimed scientist & writer, Angela Saini, NF-LC, BC a welcome new study suggests that science is rewriting the old theories that explain why women were best suited to housework and men are natural philanthropist. A new book that explores how science has misrepresented women.
https://goodreads.com>show
https://spie.org>news>angela saini
https://searchworks.stanford.edu
https://www.expediagroup.com>resource guide, great resources for this book.

This wonderful SF-RA, picture book CeCe and her teacher, Ms. Curie assigning a science project. CeCe knows just what to ask- do dogs eat vegetables? She teams up with her best friend Issac and her dog, Einstein to discover the answer. They investigate, research, collect data and analyze using Einstein as their case study. A fun informative picture book.
https://www.teachingbooks.net>CeCe loves science resources and hands-on activities.

This SF-RA, novel is a Newbery Medal Award Winner, the Sequoyah Book Award, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner up for the Hand Christian Anderson Award. Great chapter book for BC, LC, children's literature combination of SF and fantasy fiction. For many children, reading this book is a turning point in their intellectual lives, opening them up to worlds of science and literary complexity.
https://study.com>academic>lesson resources.

This Newbery Honor book is about a little girl who saved the life of a runt piglet she named Wilber, Wilber and his friend Charlotte the spider and Words. Novel, chapter book great for RA, BC, LC, teaching vocabulary words and emotional content as well. This book is great for conveying the message of friendship, life, love, and death. Full of drama and adventures.
https://www.scholastic.com>teachers guide for extension activities and questions.

This, P-RA-BC-LC, Coretta Scott King Award Winner, Newbery Medalist, and Caldecott Honoree collection of innovative poetry collaboration, comes from Lucille Clifton, who wrote"Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing." Made up of twenty poems, each one celebrating another noble poet. In 3 parts; "Got Style" "In Your Shoes" and "Thank You "

Author and film maker along with her bestselling team have created this charming collection of baby poems that makes the perfect gift for your classroom library. Each moment of reading is full of wonder and discovery for beginning poetry readings in your classroom.
https://www.teachingbooks.net>little poems for tiny ears, offers 15 resources and activities.
https://www.readingrockets.org>little poems for tiny ears, read aloud lessons & activities.

This wonderfully inspiring read aloud, RA-F, is about a little girl named Lena, her nervous shoes, and her Dad discussing the dilemma. You see it's her first day of school. The first day of school can be a very traumatic experience for children being away from their Mom or Dad, guardians, grandparents, for the first time.
https://www.facebook.com/CLPLToday/videos/3007894632784621/
Read aloud by Ms. Karamy reads from Crystal Lake Public Library.

This, RF-RA-LC, Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (Honor Book) and Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Non-Violent Social Change, in her debut novel. Angie Thomas creates what might be one of the decades most vivid voices in YA fiction. This novel reflects a world today's teens inhabit. Starr's struggles create a complex character, Thomas boldly tackles topics like racism, gangs, police violence, & interracial dating.

MF-RA-BC-LC. Set in NY City, charismatic 17-year-old boy, sharply funny and insightful novel, countless hustles we have to keep doing the hardest thing, being ourselves. Award winning author of "The Field Guide to the North American Teenager," Range: 13-17. A whip smart and layered romantic comedy for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.
https://diverse books.org>qa-with-benphillipe
https://www.slj.com Charming As a Verb|School Library Journal.

Wonderful MF-RA picture book about the life processes and transformation of a hungry that transforms into a beautiful butterfly, from an egg to caterpillar to butterfly. Transformations of life is a great lesson for younger children and this book is a great resource for teaching about transformations.
https://www.scholastic.com>teachers
https://www.wearteachers.com>very hungry caterpillar. Activities for the classroom and teacher resources.

This MF-RA, picture book teaches a story of wishes and greed. A fisherman, his never satisfied and greedy wife, and a magi 🐠 fish who grants wishes. Wonderful RA teaches children to be satisfied with what you have, don't be greedy, & helps teachers with teaching important lessons to children like be nice, be grateful for what someone gives you, & being greedy can sometimes have a bad result as in this story. https://www.rif.orf>book>magic fish

Winner of the Noble Peace Prize written for young adults, recommended for ages 14 years old and up. A poetic call to be proud of your heritage in a diverse world in a time of immigration, crisis, war and border conflicts. The contributions of strength, resilience, and hope in the face of trauma is astounding. The underlying messages and emotional impact of their stories involving the heartbeat and loss of leaving behind everything you know & love.

Wonderful novel from New York Times bestselling author, F-BC-LC, chapter book is a about fourteen-year-old Beverly Tapinski who has always had to look out for herself, she leaves home after her dog dies. She finds herself in a job in a little seaside town, makes new friends and a new life for herself, with friends that look out for each other and her. This wonderful story of change and friendship, independence and reliance, and life experiences.

This award winning book from the Elephant and Piggie book series, MF-RA, with rhyming words and repetitive phases, is great for literary and fluency exercises, coral response activities. Proceeded by "I really like Stop!" and "Listen To My Trumpet!" This series of expressive books like, "Let's Go For A Drive!" The idea of a car trip is off-the-hook exciting. Elephant shouts, "GET THAT MAP!" And Piggie rushes off. Then the celebration ?"MAP!"

Wonderfully illustrated animal book, details the actual size of different animals, unusually small & in contrast very large animals. It also contains specific details on animals that are featured & portrayed in the book. Excellent resource for introducing science & math. Sometimes facts & figures don't tell the whole story, you need to see things for yourself- at actual size.
https://familymath.standard.edu
Great math resource for this book.

This biography picture book, RA, NF, brings the life & profound nature of his message to young children in his own words. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most of influential and gifted speakers for the civil rights movement & rights of all people all over the world of all time.
Caldecott Medal, Jane Addams Childrens Book Award for Picture Book.
https://www.rit.org>book>martinsbigwords
Printables, classroom activities, teacher resources.

MF, BC, LC, Award winning author Barbara O'Connor brings this New York Times bestselling middle-grade novel, chapter book, touching story of eleven-year-old Charlie Reese & her secret wish for the dog 🐕 of her dreams. A big hearted uncle & aunt, & a true-blue best friend learning the lesson of the true meaning of family in an unexpected way in the least likely of places.
This chapter book is great for literary circles and/or book clubs.

This Caldecott Honor book about Jasper the rabbit who loves his carrots, maybe too much because he gets greedy and the carrots somehow come to live in this quirky story about greed. A great book for teaching children a lesson in greed.
UDL #2.4 to promote understanding across languages for language learners using vocabulary words in a fun way.
ESOL #15 Using read aloud content & text to reinforce key ideas presented again & again.
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This wonderful RA, F, has lyrical, stirring text about appreciation for others differences, what makes us happy as people, and inequity. A little boy, CJ and his Nana take a bus on Sunday to it's last stop 🛑 on Market Street. A Newbury 2016 Medal, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and a Caldecott Honor winner.
mattdelapena.com
nea.org
Diverse books empower students.
UDL#5.3 Expression & Communication to build fluency with graduated level

This RA, MF picture book that readers will love has playful verses and charming illustrations. Readers will also enjoy the antics of this punky plinky-plonky winky-tinky pinky funky blinky dinky donkey.

https://www.youtube.com/user/craigsmith
Great resources.

UDL#3.2 highlight patterns, critical features and relationships with word sound and rhyming words.

ESOL strategy #5 teaching technical vocabulary supporting key concepts.

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This wonderful picture book is about a boy named Jerome who collects words. Great for expanding students vocabulary words. Nominated for NAACP Image Award outstanding literacy work, 2019 and Audie Award for young listeners, 2020.
https://babblingabby.com is a great resource activities designed to use with this book.

UDL#5.3 building fluency with graduated levels of support and performance with regards to vocabulary.

https://peterhreynolds.com

This MF, BC, novel, Newbury Award winning chapter book is a great beginning novel read for a book club. An inspired by a true haunting story, told from Ivan's point of view. A silverback gorilla confined for 27 yrs. in a small concrete metal and glass enclosure.
https://katherineapplegate.com
UDL#9.2 use self regulation to facilitate personal coping skills and strategies.
ESOL#11 helps students place language in meaningful content.
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HF, BC, F, by three time award winning author Jennifer Holm, Newbury Award winning book set in Key West, Florida during the depression and a boy named Beans. Grown ups lie, Beans knows this for sure.
Five star review, New York Public Library best book for kids 2016.
UDL # 7.2 covers relevance, and #1.3 covers perception, ESOL strategies #10 teach students critical thinking, and #15 reinforce key ideas.
www.jenniferholm.com

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RA, RF, great book for teaching vocabulary words, in a way that's not intimidating to younger students and relates to real life. By author Jamie Lee Curtis, she concludes her theme with the biggest word of all LOVE.

https://www.classcraft.com/blog/strategies-for-teaching-vocabulary/

UDL#2.1 clarifying vocabulary.
ESOL#1 asking questions, #11 vocabulary words, #20 making clarifications, #22 giving extra wait time for responses.

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MF, RA, F, This story by author Matthew Cherry, features a little girl of color and her father, pride and exploration of different hairstyles and how she likes her hair styled by her Dad. A self reflection of confidence in who you are and self-care.

https://www.penguin.com/children/
A great resource for read aloud books.

UDL#7.2 relevance to students & #9.3 self-assessment & reflection.

ESOL#3 encourage self-talk discussion.
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MF, BC, F, Novel narrated by Red the neighborhood wishtree, best friend Bogo & a menagerie of animals seeking shelter in Red's hollows & branches. This novel tells a sweet story that addresses bigotry & diversity, Islamophobia & if trees could talk, what would they say about us?

https://katherineapplegate.com

UDL# 3.2 highlight pattern, critical features, big ideas, & relationships.
ESOL#1 teach questioning for clarification.

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I loved the connection to the 🌎 Earth and the roots of the trees connection to each other too.

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