Picture Books
A Pet for Fly Guy Arnold, Tedd
Dog Days of School Dipucchio, Kelly
Nugget and Fang Sauer, Tammi
Penguin and Pinecone Yoon, Salina
Sam and Dave Dig A Hole Barnett, Mac
Sparky Offill, Jenny
Take Away the A Escoffier, Michael
The Book With No Pictures Novak, B.J.
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Willems, Mo
JUNIOR BOOKS
This House Needs A Mouse Nunnally, C. Jeffrey A Snicker of Magic Lloyd, Natalie
Everyday Angel: New Beginnings Schwab, Victoria
Ever After High: The Storybook of
Legends Hale, Shannon
Fish in a Tree Hunt, Lynda Mullaly
I Funny Patterson, James
Loot Watson, Jude
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish O'Hara, Mo
Sisters Telgemeier, Raina
The Fourteenth Goldfish Holm, Jennifer L.
The Night Gardener Auxier, Jonathan
Everyone seems
to have a pet,
except for Fly
Guy.
Can Buzz help
him find the
perfect pet?
Tedd Arnold pronounces and discusses his name
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=570
Author website
http://teddarnoldbooks.com/
Cool demo of Arnold’s drawing techniques
(this hasn’t been updated lately!)
(emphasizing the art in picture books can be a theme)
http://teddarnoldbooks.com/drawing.html
Arnold’s first book. 1987
Shorter Interview for younger kid
http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/index.php?view=article&c
atid=32%3Aauthor-spotlight&id=29%3Atedarnold&option=com_content&Itemid=80
Interview: for 5th graders to read?
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/bytopic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/61483-q-a-with-teddarnold.html
What questions does the interview bring to your mind?
List five things you learned about Tedd Arnold.
Maybe being
a dog would
be better than
going to
school as a kid
every day.
Lesson: POV – point of view
Character studies
Lesson plans from American Veterinary Medical Association
http://www.petweek.org/lessons.html
Look at the Wild or Domestic.
Pronunciation of DePuccio
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=722
Two sites about the Illustrator Brian Biggs
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-bookssite/gallery/2015/may/09/how-to-draw-anangry-monkey-brian-biggs?CMP=share_btn_tw
http://mrbiggs.com/news/2014/06/dog-daysof-school/
This is about getting along.
Knowing and appreciating different kinds of
people.
Being kind. Tolerance.
Including and celebrating everyone.
Terrific lesson plans from Houghton Mifflin
http://www.teachingbooks.net/media/pdf/HM
H/NuggetandFangDiscussionGuide.pdf
Excellent trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcbbCLJ
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Librarian read aloud. Probably not sanctioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwj3gPAMrA
Book trailer by 5th graders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSmL5Hu
oMMw
Lesson ideas from the author-suited to
primary.
http://www.salinayoon.com/Penguin_and_Pin
cone_Video_Page_files/Penguin%20and%20Pi
necone%20-%20Educator%20Guide%20-Finalpdf.pdf
Penguin’s Blog! cute
http://www.penguinandpinecone.com/
Book Trailer
http://www.salinayoon.com/Penguin_and_Pin
cone_Video_Page.html
Unusual book trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBJVZuM
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Interview on a morning show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW9mhE
bRIBI
Read aloud / permission (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkyWGPC
vvxA
Activities on p 11 and p 12:
http://www.teachingbooks.net/media/pdf/Can
dlewick/ReadToUsStoryHourKit_Fall14.pdf
Is there an author’s
message?
Where are Sam and Dave at
the end of the story?
What’s the best pet
possible?
Sloths
About the Illustrator Chris Appelhans is an illus
Carle, Eric. “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sl trator and author for animated feature films. H
oth. Puffin Books, 2002.
is work includes art for Coraline, Fantastic Mr.
Cooke, Lucy. A Little Book of Sloth. Margaret K. Fox, and The Princess and the Frog. He lives in
McElderry Books, 2013.
Los Angeles. View his work online at froghatst
Lester, Helen. Score One for the Sloths. Hough udios.com
ton Mifflin, 2001.
Check Destiny
Digital Resources Author Website jennyoffill.
com. Illustrator Website froghatstudios.com
Bath Time for Baby Sloths video http://safesha
re.tv/w/TDLpeNfJNE
Research ideas
1. Language Arts: Research Students will use WorldBookonline™ (subscription re
quired) as a resource to further their knowledge. Look at the article about sloths
on WorldBookonline™ and sort the facts into trash or treasure based on whether
or not they are relevant to the overarching question. ●
Research/Gathering Sources –
Students determine, locate, and explore the full range of relevant sources addre
ssing a research question and systematically record the information they gather.
Students are expected to: ○
Kindergarten TEKS: ELAR 110.11 (b) 20 A: Gather evidence from provided text sou
rces. ○
1st Grade TEKS: ELAR 110.12 (b) 24 A: Gather evidence from available sources (na
tural and personal) as well as from interviews with local experts. ○
2nd Grade TEKS: ELAR 110.13 (b) 25 A: Gather evidence from available sources (n
atural and personal) as well as from interviews with local experts.
Book Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGcZNAFbDnM
Pronunciation (helpful! And humorous) for Escoffier
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=25022
Illustrator slide show for art discussions
http://krisdigiacomo.com/portfolio/beasts/
Blogs and Interviews are in French
Possible activity:
Create your own scene. Take away the …and the ….
Take away the C and the Score becomes sore.
Novaks reads book aloud (start of book only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREyQJO
9EPs
The first (lesson) is the concepts of
print. Concepts of print are essentially an
understanding of “how books work“. That’s
the whole premise of this book! Print carries
meaning. All by itself. The words on the page
mean something — and OH BOY do they mean
something in this book. They mean
EVERYTHING!
It also helps kids build comprehension
skills. Kids who learn to read with expression
learn to remember what they’ve read.
From: http://notjustcute.com/2014/10/08/the-book-with-no-pictures/
Novaks speaking to ALA (for adults)
Use 4:28-7:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XzZUdq2s&feature=youtu.be -
Activity Pages
http://www.pigeonpresents.com/teachersguid
es/pigeon-needs-bath-activity-kit.pdf
Funny book trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=22&v=skx
HlUkux5s
Pronunciation – ha ha ha
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi
?aid=1736
3.5 minute interview (at the bottom) of Willems
writing process. Great page
http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/writersspeak-to-kids
Pronunciation
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi
?aid=25182
Children's Author, Therapist, Professor, Father Observer of All Things Ordinary &
Extraordinary (self description on Twitter
feed). FROM Denver.
The Pickles are new to
Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a
town which legend says was
once magic--but Felicity is
convinced the magic is still
there, and with the help of
her new friend Jonah the
Beedle she hopes to bring
the magic back.
Aria, a guardian angel, is sent
to help out a girl named
Gabby. Gabby has spent so
much time worrying about
her sick brother, that she has
forgotten about herself. Aria
must help Gabby discover
herself again.
At Ever After High, a boarding
school for the sons and daughters
of famous fairy-tale characters,
students Apple White and Raven
Queen face the moment when
they must choose whether to
follow their destinies, or change
them
"Ally's greatest fear is that
everyone will find out she is
as dumb as they think she is
because she still doesn't
know how to read"--
Resolving to become the
world's greatest stand-up
comedian despite less-thanfunny challenges in his life,
wheelchair-bound middle
school student Jamie Grimm
endures bullying from his
mean-spirited cousin and
hopes he will be fairly judged
when he enters a local comedy
contest.
When Alfie McQuinn, the
notorious jewel thief, is killed on a
job, his last words to his son,
March, are to "find jewels" and
this instruction leads the boy to
Jules, the twin sister he never
knew he had--and the perfect
partner to carry on the family
business.
When Tom's big brother
decides to become an evil
scientist, his first experiment
was on Tom's goldfish
Frankie. To save Frankie, Tom
zaps him with a battery to
bring him back to life, but
something is weird about the
new Frankie.
In graphic novel
format, Raina
Telgemeier shares the
story of her
relationship with her
younger sister.
Ellie's scientist grandfather has
discovered a way to reverse aging,
and consequently has turned into
a teenager--which makes for
complicated relationships when
he moves in with Ellie and her
mother, his daughter.
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen,
and Kip, ten, travel to England
to work as servants in a
crumbling manor house where
nothing is quite what it seems
to be, and soon the siblings are
confronted by a mysterious
stranger and secrets of the
cursed house.
Book summaries and pictures are from Follett Destiny summaries.
Many of the instructional activities are from TeachingBooks.