Literature+Skills

Mock Caldecott Committee

Create your own Mock Caldecott Award committee with older students! Look at this great idea from St. John Vianney



A message from Nick Glass, Founder of TeachingBooks.net:

Greetings, It was a pleasure and a privilege to conduct a TeachingBooks.net training for your group of Wisconsin educators last week. Whether you were able to attend or not, I wanted to share a few tips for best using TeachingBooks.net to support literacy and library activities in your school. Tip 1: Host an Author Elementary school librarians can host a favorite, award-winning author in your library, anytime, with our projectable movies filmed in the author's home. For example, lay out your Kevin Henkes books, such as Kitten's First Full Moon or Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, book talk the books, and show the movie of Kevin in his studio. Everyone will love seeing his drawings and learning about his creative process. (You can access all "Meet-the-Author" movies we've made when you click on "Browse the Collection" and then "Browse by a Type of Resource.")

Tip 2: Search & Share Find materials for the books read in your schools when you search for an author or title. Then, seamlessly tell colleagues about these materials by clicking "Email" or "Share" from the the bright gold bar at the bottom of your Internet browser window. This is an instant way to disseminate relevant and ready-to-use instructional materials that support the books read in your schools.

Access instructions provided to all attendees on February 24, 2012. If you did not attend, you can access Teaching Books.net using your public library card through the Wisconsin DPI site [|www.badgerlink.net] Handouts from Curriculum Day 2012 - From TeachingBooks.net From St. Francis Cabrini - Teaching Genres