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Because of an Acorn By Lola M. Schaefer and Adam Schaefer

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Because of an Acorn By Lola M. Schaefer and Adam Schaefer

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Because of an Acorn By Lola and Adam Schaefer is a beautiful story of how so much can come from a Acorn. Perfect book for a 2nd or 3rd grade classroom, this book contains descriptive steps that come from a acorn being placed in the ground and all the way to animals. This book is complex in the way it describes the life of the Acorn, a teacher will need to address what comes from a acorn or what eats a acorn.

Because of an Acorn by Lola and Adam Schaefer is a perfect book to be paired with a science study of plants or with a nature walk. The teacher could even have the shared reading done outside, possibly with echo reading to make sure the students are paying attention. The teacher could point out to different things they see outside and have them write it down. Students can also do a activity by putting in order of where the acorn went. For writing, teachers can have students compare and contrast what they saw on their nature walk to what was in the book.

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Over and Under the Pond By Kate Messner was published in 2017. This Book is intended for 2nd or 3rd graders. In a short summary, readers will discover the plants and animals that make up the parallel ecosystem of a mountain pond. This book can be complex for some students in how the book flows. This book can be supplemental to a lesson about the ecosystem and used in comparison to a non-fiction book.

Over and Under the Pond By Kate Messner can be used as a supplemental book is a lesson on ecosystem in paring with a non-fictional book on the ecosystem in a pond. In shared reading students can ask previous questions that they may have about the book and then slowly answer them as they read with the teacher. Students can even be creative by drawing their own idea of what a ponds ecosystem looks like. Teachers can use a contrast and comparison chart of what is different but similar between both books or both ecosystems.

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I Color Myself Different By Colin Kaepernick Illustrated By Eric Wilkerson

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I Color Myself Different By Colin Kaepernick Illustrated By Eric Wilkerson

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I Color Myself Different By Colin Kaepernick was published in 2022 and is intended for 2nd graders. This book is a inspiring story of identity and self-esteem. In short summary, it is about what happens when a brown shield is asked to draw a picture of himself and his family which is white. This book can be harder for students to read on their own but with some simple tasks they can progress in reading by themselves.

I Color Myself Different, By Colin Kaepernick, can be used to help build on knowledge-based and skill-based tasks. This book can be used in shared reading, selecting key components as the teacher reads out loud and asking multiple questions. Students can also use writing by doing the activity provided in the book, describe your family. This brings awareness to families that have different ethnicity due to adoption or other possibilities.

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The Hair Book, by LaTonya Yvette, was published in 2022. This book is intended for all ages but would work best in the 2nd grade. LaTonya created this book to instruct students at young ages that no matter a persons hair color or shape, it should always be accepted. The book can be complex for some learners is gaining the concept on their own.

The reading, The Hair Book by LaTonya Yvette, is a amazing book for the teachers to include into lesson planning. Teachers can use this book in shared reading, using echo reading or more student lead reading. Students can also do writing with this, for instance, they could write about their own hair and using descriptive words to give a image of what their hair looks like. This book helps spread awareness for people who have different and unique hair.

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Grumpy Monkey Are We There Yet? By Suzanne Lang and Illustrated by Max Lang

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Grumpy Monkey Are We There Yet? By Suzanne Lang and Illustrated by Max Lang

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Published in 2022, Grumpy Monkey Are We There Yet? By Suzanne Lang, is a funny story about Jim Panzee. In the story, he becomes conflicted with patience. Jim realizes that some things are worth waiting for. This book is perfect for 1st Grade, mainly because the students can relate to it. What makes this book complex for 1st graders is the words used. They may struggle with pronouncing the words.

Grumpy Monkey Are We There Yet?, By Suzanne Lang, helps build on knowledge-based and skill-based tasks. Students can use this text in shared reading and writing. Teacher reading the text to the students and thinking out loud, to demonstrate thinking during reading, and then sending students to do a writing assignment. Possible idea is having students write about a time when they where impatient or what it means to be patient. This book can demonstrate and help students to become more patient.

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Learning With Llama Llama by Anna Dewdeny

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Learning With Llama Llama by Anna Dewdeny

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Published in 2021, Learning With Llama Llama by Anna Dewdeny, is the perfect book for Kindergartens learning their ABC’s. This book consist of the Alphabet with correlating exciting pictures. The only way this book could be complex for students is pronouncing the words that start with the specific letter. The book is a great tool for learning the ABC’s with the providing pictures to help students understand the order of the Alphabet.

Learning With Llama Llama, by Anna Dewdeny, is a book that provides the ideas of the Alphabet. While learning the order, students can begin to understand the sounds that go with each letter. For a fun activity that builds knowledge-based and skill-based tasks, students can put together a t-chart or sticky note chart of possible words that start with the letter and sound it makes. Teachers can take a letter per day and do this activity, review it periodically, and comparing it to other sounds that can correlate with the letter.

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You Matter By Christian Robinson was published in 2020. This book is intended for grades 1st-3rd. In short summary, this book is constructed to teach students that they matter regardless of their circumstances, and regardless of what may be going on around them. The book goes through the smallest objects to humans, including that everyone matters. This book can be complex for younger grades in the wording that is being used.

You Matter, by Christian Robinson, can be used in the classroom to build knowledge-based and skills-based tasks. Not only does this work on the skills in school but it helps work on social skills. Teachers can use shared reading, such as echo reading. This will be useful students making them retaining the words to repeat it back to the teacher. The students can have discussions with their peers throughout the different pages within this picture book. This books beautiful message can be used to spread awareness of self-love and kindness towards others.

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A Story About Afiya by James Berry was published in 2020. This book is intended for grades k-3rd. In a short summary, this book is about a young girl who records her memories from her childhood by wearing only one dress. As she is going throughout her day, her dress picks up patterns and images of her day. The story aims to reflect the realities of non-dominant cultures, which can be a complex for some student.

A Story About Afiya, by James Berry, can be used to help build students knowledge-based and skill-based task. The story introduces a comparison in culture the some students don’t recognize right away. The lesson that the students can take away from the book is being content and happy with what you have no matter how much it is. Teachers can correlate a writing segment such as, a letter to Afiya about their culture and questions they have about her culture.  Students can look at the descriptive words used to describe the culture that Afiya lives in.

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If You Come To Earth by Sophie Blackall was published in 2020. This book is intended for grades K-3rd. In a short summary, this book is about a imaginative child who writes a letter to people in space. She includes what they need to know about earth, such as, activities, differences, where we live, etc. This book can be complex for the way it is structured and possible words students may not know.

If You Come To Earth, by Sophie Blackall, can be used as a great learning tool in writing. After reading the book as a group the teacher can go through a shared writing process. As a whole, the students and teacher, will construct a letter to the people in space. Then at their own desk, students can write a letter individually about Earth. This book can also be helpful in shared reading, building on knowledge-based and skill-based tasks. Something that was used recently in assignment, Practicum 10, students looked for the different words using the “ow” spelling and whether it is using the “O” or “ow” sound.

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I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith, was published in 2020. The book is 40 pages long and is intended for 4th Grade. In a quick summary, this book is a picture book about a boy who has a stutter. He has a hard time with words that start with the C, P, and M sounds. The Author creates a comparison between the river crashing and how the boy speaks. This book is complex for some readers because of the words used to describe the boy or the river. Students also may struggle with what stuttering is, they may have little to no experience with it.

I Talk Like a River, by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith, can be used in the classroom to better students skill-based and knowledge based tasks. For example, when working on different forms of figurative language, students can identify metaphors, similes, personification, and etc. Another example, is this book can be useful in reading. Having the students either read the text and retell it or having them read-aloud in a small group setting. With the retelling it could be done in writing or it can be done to the teacher in a small group setting. This book is helpful to introduce and bring awareness to the uniqueness of those with a stutter. As I said before, some students have little to no experience with stuttering.