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PURPOSE - This story is about a girl who goes through the motions talking about herself and at the end says she is enough. The purpose of the story is to teach children no matter who or what they are and no matter their attributes they are enough.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - This story can be used in many ways. First, students can evaluate the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Secondly, students could consider cultural representation in the text with venn diagrams that encourage them to consider the familiar and unfamiliar from their reading. Thirdly, students can Students consider topic/theme, mood, rhyme, and repetition within the story.

TRANSFER - Students can transfer learning about cultural representation in the story to other elements of their lives. Also, students can learn how to read and find meaning within poetry.

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PURPOSE - This book is about a man going off to World War One that finds a bear in a train station and rescues him. The story gives students a first person point of view of what war an consist of while adding a fun spin on the story.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - One way to teach using this story could be to have students think about cultural representation with a guided reflection on how they see their world and with the experiences they notice in the text. Themes can also be taught and examined in this story using power, privilege, and bias.

TRANSFER - Students can transfer how to take a main topic with supporting details from a picture book text. Student's can also transfer knowing how to use the author's purpose to take away key ideas from the story.

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Let's Celebrate!: Special Days Around the World

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Let's Celebrate!: Special Days Around the World

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PURPOSE - The purpose of this book is to introduce students to traditions and different holidays celebrated all around the world. This book also showcases different cultures for students to experience.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - One way to use this book is to incorporate it into a social studies lesson on traditions for literacy fusion. Another way to use this book would be to teach students about different holidays around the world.

TRANSFER - Students can take away from this book how to compare and contrast holidays celebrated by other cultures with the holidays we celebrate in our culture. Students can also gain new vocabulary from this book by learning how to say the names of other countries and holidays.

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We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

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We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

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PURPOSE - The purpose of this book is to make knowing and memorizing the Preamble of the United States Constitution easier for students. Making this important part of our nation’s history easier for students to understand in an engaging storytelling.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - One way to use this book for teaching would be for students to do a cultural representation reflection. A second way to use this book could be when teaching a lesson about Non-fiction reading and response. A third way to use this book could be to introduce the United States Constitution to students.

TRANSFER - Students could transfer topic, main idea, author’s purpose, and supporting details from a non-fiction story into writing or a web. Students can transfer reflecting on cultural representation in the story by comparing and contrasting from their own experiences with elements of the story.

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PURPOSE - The 4 stories told throughout this book are different interpretations of the classic fairytale Cinderella in different cultures. Cinderella variations told of stories similar to Cinderella in Canada, China, Egypt, and France give students the chance to hear about something familiar to them but in different ways than traditional literature.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - This book can be used in a lesson to teach children how a story can change depending on what culture or place is represented within. This book also has the opportunity to teach students different vocabulary words from different cultures and give context on how those words would be used. Lastly, this book can be used to help children identify key ideas or details from different cultures represented throughout the story.

TRANSFER - Students can transfer new vocabulary words learned throughout the four stories and be able to use them in their own stories. Students will also transfer identifying key details throughout a story to identify the culture/place the story is set in. Students can compare the differences and similarities between the four stories.

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

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PURPOSE - This book gives over fifty plus biographies of black women that accomplished something in history. There are several purposes this book can be utilized for because there are so many one-page biographies throughout.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - The first way this book can be used in social studies is for it's biographies of the many black women who accomplished wonderful things in our history. More content areas this book could be used in is black history and women's history. With the wide variety of biographies shared within this book, this book could have multiple different uses for Social Studies purposes within the classroom.

TRANSFER - Students could create their own auto-biographies after reading some of the stories within this book. Students could also begin a research project by studying one of the women mentioned throughout the book. Finally, students could identify the contributions these black women made to society as well.

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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

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PURPOSE - The book goes through several features that we find here on earth. Describing land, sea, sky, constellations, space, the human body, survival needs, people, animals, day/night, time, and the landscape of the world. This book's purpose is to inform the reader of all the many things that inhabit our world.

CONTENT/CURRICULUM - One way to use this book for a lesson would be to describe the world in spatial terms to students. Such as, land/sea, cities, roads, maps, continents, and space. Another content area this picture book would be useful in is demonstrating environment and society. Students could describe the environment they see throughout the story.

TRANSFER - Students will transfer the information they are learning from the book by describing the environment and the world they see throughout the story. Students describing what they see could be transferred to students being able to demonstrate and/or describe the different aspects of our world at large.