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Teaser: GoNoodle allows students to be active while learning a lesson. Allow YOUR students to become energized while still becoming prominent with the information that is given.
Teaching Idea: Teachers can use this website to get students active in the classroom while still learning a lesson. There are many different subjects that can incorporate movement.
https://www.gonoodle.com

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Teaser: BrainPOP allows teachers to draw students in with a quick video about the subject they will be discussing. Draw YOUR students in by showing them a video that will get them interested.
Teaching Idea: Teachers can use this website as an introductory set to the lesson that they are actually teaching. BrainPOP is a great way for students to become interested in what they are learning about.
https://www.brainpop.com

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Written & illustrated by: Shel Silverstein

Teaser: With poems that even young elementary school children can understand, A Light in the Attic, is a great way for students to fall in love with poetry. Go on a journey with Silverstein and all of his marvelous characters; you will not regret it!
Teaching Idea: Students can pick out literary elements. With these elements, they can describe them and give examples.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-elementary-school/127812-shel-silverstein/

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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

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Written by: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrated by: Timothy Basil Ering

Publication Date: 2003
Genre: Fables, Folk Tales, and Myths
Approximate Interest Level: Grades 2-6
Approximate Interest Level:

Lexile® Measure: 670L

DRA: 50

Guided Reading: U

Teaser: Follow a rat, a young girl, and a princess through an individual journey through a dungeon and a castle. Eventually they meet up and continue the journey together, but will they all make it through safely?
Description: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7443054-the-tale-of-despereaux?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: For a math lesson, students can create their own mazes on graph paper and then the teacher can post them around the classroom.
http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763617229.btg.1.pdf

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Written by: Phillip Hoose

Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Biography/Non-Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Grades 5-8
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: 1000L

DRA: 70

Guided Reading: Z

Teaser: Claudette Colvin is a young 15-year-old girl who did not give up her seat a white woman on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Follow her journey and see what it is like to be a young, African American girl in the 1950s.
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5201814-claudette-colvin?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Students can compare and contrast the language that is used in the book to the language that their friends and family speak in and outside of the home and classroom.
http://www.civiced-ri.org/ccolvin.pdf

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Written by: Cece Bell

Publication Date: 2014
Genre: Comic Books and Graphic Novels/Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Grades 4-9
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: GN420L

DRA: 40

Guided Reading: Q

Teaser: Starting a new school is already challenging, but it is even harder when you cannot hear. Cece is deaf, needs to wear a hearing aid, is going to a new school, and has no friends at her new school. Can she make new friends while starting all over?
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20701984-el-deafo?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: For a science or history lesson, students can research and discuss the different types of hearing loss and the types of treatment that have been used in the past and the present.
http://cbldf.org/2015/06/using-graphic-novels-in-education-el-deafo/

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Written by: Kwame Alexander

Publication Date: 2014
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Approximate Interest Level:
Grades 5-9
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: 750L

Guided Reading: Z

Teaser: Josh and Jordan need to learn to grow up and become more mature on and off the basketball court. Follow their journey and see if they can be the adults that everyone knows they can be.
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18263725-the-crossover?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Through 12 key poems, the author introduces key vocabulary words. Have students look up these words in a dictionary and then compare how the author uses them in the poem. Have students' create their own "vocabulary" poems.
http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2014/08/guide-crossover-by-kwame-alexander.html

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Written by: Norton Juster
Illustrated by: Chris Raschka

Publication Date: 2005
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Grades PreK-2
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: AD760L

DRA: 18

Guided Reading: K

Teaser: Everyone has their special place and for this little girl, it is her grandma and grandpa's kitchen window. Here she has the chance to imagine, explore, and grow. Follow her imagination and see if she grows that the way she wants to.
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16963.The_Hello_Goodbye_Window?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Students can listen to the story (have teacher read aloud), then have students close their eyes and imagine what their grandparents' (if they don't have grandparents, a close relatives') kitchen looks like. Have them draw what they imagined and then have them share with a partner and point out important information about the place.
http://cfmedia.btsb.com/TitleLessonPlans/2461.pdf

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Written & illustrated by: Mo Williams

Publication Date: 2004
Genre: Comedy & Humor
Approximate Interest Level: Grades PreK-1
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: 120L

DRA: 18

Guided Reading: K

Teaser: Trixie brings her bunny everywhere she goes; it's her best friend! One day Trixie, dad, and Trixie's bunny go to Laundromat and bunny gets lost. Will dad and Trixe be able to find him?
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490867.Knuffle_Bunny?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Younger students can practice writing by filling in a worksheet with pictures from the book, but with blank speech bubbles.  Students can fill in the blank speech bubbles and make their own story.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/knuffle-bunny-cautionary-tale-lesson-plan

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Written & illustrated by: Maurice Sendak

Publication Date: 1963
Genre: Fantasy
Approximate Interest Level: Grades PreK-3
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: AD740L

DRA: 16

Guided Reading: J

Teaser: Max causes a ruckus and gets sent to his room without any dinner. He then ends up in a strange land full of monsters, but will he ever be able to get home?
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19543.Where_the_Wild_Things_Are?ac=1&from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Students can think of synonyms and antonyms of words that are repeated in the book, such as "terribly".
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/where-the-wild-things-are

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Written by: Philip C. Stead
Illustrated by: Erin E. Stead

Publication Date: 2010
Genre: Comedy & Humor
Approximate Interest Level: Grades K-2
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: AD760L

DRA: 24

Guided Reading: M

Teaser: Amos McGee is the zookeeper at the zoo, but when he gets sick, he cannot take care of all of the animals. Since Amos has consistently taken care of the animals, they decide that it is there time to help Amos out.
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7268995-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: For a science lesson, students can create a Venn Diagram and sort animals from the book based on if they are carnivores, omnivores (middle) or herbivores. Once they diagram is completed, students

can look up facts on one of the animals that was featured in the book.
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/a_sick_day_for_amos_mcgee.php

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Written & illustrated by: Brian Floca

Publication Date: 2013
Genre: Non-fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Grades 1-4
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: 840L

DRA: 34

Guided Reading: O

Teaser: America's first railroad was built in 1869.  Come ride the first train and see what it was like riding through the country on this first trip!
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17334578-locomotive?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Have students create an alphabet book with different railroad words.  In this book, each page can be a different word/letter and on each page can be a definition of the word and a picture.
http://www.kidsentertainment.net/roster/locomotive/docs/Locomotive%20Curriculum%20Guide.pdf

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Written & illustrated by: Jon Klassen

Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Comedy & Humor
Approximate Interest Level: Grades K-3
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: AD340L

DRA: 16

Guided Reading: J

Teaser: Follow this little fish as he goes on an adventure wearing a hat that fits him perfectly. Will he get caught by the big fish who owns the hat?
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531024-this-is-not-my-hat?from_search=true

Teaching Idea: For a science lesson, students can get into groups and each group can research/give a presentation on what other creatures are found in the ocean. This will help the students to fully understand that there are many other creatures that can be found in different parts of the ocean.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/this-is-not-my-hat

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The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

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The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

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Written & illustrated by: Dan Santat

Publication Date: 2014
Genre: Comedy & Humor
Approximate Interest Level: Grades K-3
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: AD480L

DRA: 18

Guided Reading: K

Teaser: Finding you best friend is tough, which is why Beekle escapes off the island and goes to the city. Go on an incredible adventure with Beekle as he goes off to find his human, "unimaginary" friend.
Description:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295821-the-adventures-of-beekle?ac=1&from_search=true

Teaching Idea: Students can discuss character traits and then write about their best friend or an imaginary friend that they have had. This will help younger students with their writing skills and will help them to be more descriptive in their writing.
http://www.thecorecoaches.com/2015/09/meet-beekle.html

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Written by: Troy Andrews
Illustrated by: Bryan Collier

Publication Date: 2015
Genre: Autobiography
Approximate Interest Level: Grades 3-5
Approximate Text Level:

Lexile® Measure: 840L

Teaser: With the setting based in New Orleans, go on a musical journey with Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews as he goes off to follow his dream of becoming a musician. As a a musical prodigy, at the age of six, Troy had to go through some struggles to accomplish his dream.
Description: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23167689-trombone-shorty

Teaching Idea:  Students can create their own band by using materials throughout the classroom/house (tissue boxes, rubber bands, marbles, etc). This idea would be a great "Fun Friday" activity for older grade levels or a great activity for younger grade levels to improve their fine motor skills (cutting, gluing, etc.).
http://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/2015/11/trombone-shorty/