On Common Core | Creating Community
It may seem obvious to you, dear reader, but not everyone knows that the library is the heart of the school community, the place where student and faculty life converge—where children race to reserve...
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A Universe to Discover | From Galileo to Barnum Brown
Related TeachingBooks.net resources »»» This article is the second in a two-part series covering recent books on scientists. For a look at additional titles that explore the topic, see A Lifetime of...
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Nick’s Picks | The Promise of Technology
This article was featured in School Library Journal‘s Curriculum Connections enewsletter. Subscribe today to have more articles like this delivered every month for free. This past summer I attended...
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The Wild World of Steve Jenkins | An Author Study
Related TeachingBooks.net resources »»» Watch Steve Jenkins in his studio »»» The idea came to me last fall as I sat in a high school auditorium in Brooklyn, New York listening to award-winning author...
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A Child’s Eye-View of China | Interview
TeachingBook.net resources on this interview »»» Listen to illustrator Andrés Vera Martínez introduce and read from Little White Duck. Na Liu was born in a suburb of Wuhan, China, in 1973. She became a...
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On Common Core | Content Over Coverage
One of the most common complaints about state or local curriculum standards is that they focus on covering a range of topics—too many, in most cases—while sacrificing depth of understanding. Chances...
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Does Character Matter?
In How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Houghton Mifflin, 2012), Paul Tough challenges the generally accepted notion that academic achievement rests primarily on...
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Population Shifts Through the Centuries | Nick’s Picks
Throughout the ages, individuals and groups have migrated, emigrated, fled, and been forcibly removed from their homelands. When teaching about the movement of people, books can provide students with a...
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Clustering and the Common Core
The Common Core State Standards require that children and young adults read “across” a variety of texts, within the same genre or on the same topic or theme. This reading should engage them in critical...
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Nick’s Picks | Celebrating World Languages Through Books
In this month’s column we celebrate our multilingual world by showcasing a variety of audio and video recordings from the TeachingBooks.net collection. These multimedia resources allow students and...
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Michael Hearst | A Fascination with the Unusual
TeachingBook.net resources on this interview »»» Listen to Michael Hearst introduce and read from Unusual Creatures Michael Hearst makes his children’s book debut with Unusual Creatures (Chronicle,...
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Reaching Those Resistant Readers | Fun, Fast-Paced Fiction
Related TeachingBooks.net resources »»» Hybrid novels–part text, part graphics–have convinced many reluctant readers that library shelves hold books that speak to them. But when these children and...
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Amazing But True | Nonfiction for Reluctant Readers
Related TeachingBooks.net resources »»» Do you rely on tried-and-true series entries to lure less-willing readers into informational texts? Scholastic’s “You Wouldn’t Want to…” and the Gareth Stevens...
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‘Pathways to the Common Core’| Professional Shelf
Now that the dust stirred up by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has begun to settle, it’s time for the hard part, implementation, which finds districts, schools, and teachers unpacking the...
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A Mission Above and Beyond Them | An Interview with Tanya Lee Stone
Listen to Tanya Lee Stone introduce and read from Courage Has No Color. Tanya Lee Stone’s search—for photos and facts—has led her in surprising and rewarding directions. “To me, visual storytelling is...
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Deconstructing Nonfiction | On Common Core
ime and time again, we hear that children do not know how to read nonfiction as well as fiction. It isn’t that nonfiction is inherently more difficult than fiction. It’s often that students do not have...
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Whiskers, Dreams, and Grave-Robbing Schemes | More on Abraham Lincoln
Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (January, 1863), as well as the delivery of the Gettysburg Address (November,1863), 2013 brings a number of new...
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Nick’s Picks | The 2013 American Library Association Award Winners
TeachingBooks.net has recorded the recent winners of the 2013 ALA book awards. Enjoy listening to these authors and illustrators as they discuss the stories behind their award-winning work, and be sure...
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On Common Core | Talking about Nonfiction
here is never enough time in a single class session, the school day, or even across the school year to pack in all that teachers and librarians want their students to learn. The Common Core State...
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Doers and Dreamers | Celebrating Black History
Throughout the year we highlight stories of well- and lesser-known individuals whose histories are part of our American fabric. But looking back, there are always a few books that haven’t been included...
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