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Having 3 sons, now grown, I was instantly attracted to the book. Yes, I bought it based on the cover and the author/illustrator, @peteoswald. I loved it even more after reading it! @peteoswald describes and illustrates the feelings a child could have, how to name and understand those feelings so well. A book that belongs on every families' bookshelf as well as every classroom. #SELliterature #SEL

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A new addition to my Back to School Text Set - Getting to Know Each Other. I know many kids who like to use their full names instead of nicknames and they will relate to how Elizabeth handles this problem. #readaloud

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Maria, the Screen Time Scallywag

A different twist to screen time habits. Looking at screen time as a loss of imagination. In this book is Maria wishes to be a part of her video game and she gets her wish. Ultimately, Maria decides that screen time all the time is not fun.

Excellent reflections to do with a class or your child and then there are personal reflections that students could write answers to. Great non-fiction elements at the end too.

Thanks for  sharing this book with me adding it to my #digcit list and workshops!!

Authors: Nicole H. Medina @thebestbooksforkids

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Create an engineering challenge as part of a comparative study. Build a chair for a small doll or stuffed bear.

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Mentor Text for lists; word choice; timelines

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Trying

Author: Kobi Yamada

Illustrator: Elise Hurst

How will you know what's possible if you don't try?

This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a beginner, or had doubts, or worried they weren't good enough. It's a story for those who have tried something but it does not turn out as they had hoped.

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Escape Goat

If you and your students enjoyed Lambslide, check out Escape Goat. First explain the title and the word play on scapegoat. Discuss the idea of not taking ownership of a mistake and the idea of blame.

Author: Ann Patchett

Illustrator: Robin Preiss Glasser

Publisher:  @harpercollins

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Brainstorm

This picture book is perfect for opening a discussion about letting your mind wander and jotting down all the bits: phrases, verbs, feelings. For teachers the prompts at the end of the book may prompt them to come up with other ideas to prompt students in their  brainstorming or writing. And I can’t forget to mention the glossary of writing terms. This book can be used in multiple writing mini-lessons all school year!

Author: Rebecca Garden Levington @rebeccagrdynlevington

Illustrator: Kate Kronreif @kate.kronkeif

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press @sleepingbeearpress

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Picturebooks are not just for young learners. Read this to a class of 5th graders as part of their American Revolutionary study. They were excited to learn of a new hero of the conflict.

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✏️Astrid the Astronaut- The Astronomically Grand Plan

I am so excited to discover a new series for early chapter book readers. These young readers will relate to Astrid the Astronaut. They will understand her wanting her best friend to join the club with her and be sad with Astrid when her friend chooses another club. Problems having more than one solution is a wonderful idea for children to learn along with Astrid.

Two other aspects of the series make these books a must have:

* STEM engineering focus along with STEM vocabulary

* Astrid is hard of hearing and she wears hearing aids.

Both these aspects make this series a wonderful #literaturelasso for discussion.

I am adding the whole series to my elementary client school’s library for the fall.

Thanks @rienealwriter for sharing this first book in the Astrid the Astronaut series!

Author: Rie Neal @rienealwriter

Illustrator: Talitha Shipman @talithashipmanillustration

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Twins

Friendship/siblings

Wonderful Illustrations

Vocabulary

List making

Back to School SEL

Learning Lassos

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📚How to Write a Poem

So excited to add this to my poetry collection that I pre-ordered this book! A great #literaturelasso for introducing poetry to students. The flow of the words will hopefully give them ideas for their own poetry. The illustrations by Melissa Sweet are so wonderful! An illustrator study of Melissa Sweet is well worth the time and even have students copy the style for the background of their own poetry.

Read the author and illustrator notes at the end of the book with your students for some insight into how they create.

Author: Kwame Alexander @kwamealexander

Author: Deanna Nikaido

Illustrated: Melissa Sweet @melissasweetillustrator

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Looking for some grammar #literaturelassos? Here are two hilarious #readalouds to remind students how important commas and apostrophes are to their writing.

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Paired read alouds.

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📚My Little Book Big Freedoms

This is a true #literaturelasso!

✏️Use this beautifully illustrated book with upper elementary and middle school students to discuss what freedoms we have or should have. Or have students add their own freedoms.

✏️Use this book to introduce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that was adopted in 1948 after WWII.

Author: @chris_riddell

Publisher: @penguinworkshop

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📚Giraffe, What Do You Like to Eat?

Love this #nonfictionpicturebook! Travel the world with students or your child learning about different animals and the foods they eat. Clear sentences, engaging illustrations and facts to share. Questions throughout the book guide discussion with students. The graphics at the end would make wonderful anchor charts for the classroom . This is a must buy for a nutrition unit in elementary school as a #literaturelasso! Looking forward to sharing with my students this spring!

Thank you @ashleyclontzbooks for sharing Giraffe, What Do You Like to Eat? With me!

Author: Ashley and Hayden Clontz

@ashleyclontzbooks

Illustrated: QBN Studios

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Looking for a reminder for your class about valuing each unique student? This is the book for you to #readaloud! In this wonderful picture book your students can see how similarities and differences are to be savored.
📚Something Beautiful
author @litajudge
Publisher: Antheneum Books

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Where do poetry ideas come from?

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Love using this book to explain to Florida kids how to make a snowman. Pair this with an art project and the students can make stuffed sock snowman.

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Great non-fiction #literaturelasso for an animal hibernation unit. Have each student bring in a stuffed animal and let them hibernate for a few weeks in a cave, lake or tree (a box). Students can write a daily journal to share with their animal when it wakes up.

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A great text set with Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter to discuss animal habits in the winter. This informational text is full of wonderful descriptions.

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Love the modern twist on the folktale It Could Always Be Worse. Great #literaturelasso for a discussion on perspective and appreciation for what you have.

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Was discussing student writing with a teacher yesterday and realized I had a new book tht wold be perfect as a #literaturelasso for introducing editing. This fun parody of the Little Red Writing Hood story will have kids laughing and then learning how to edit their own writing. #studentwriting #kidwriting

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3rd in the series. Kids can’t get enough of this series!

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A #literaturelasso to discuss proper book care and returning books borrowed check out these two new favorites. The Book that Jake Borrowed also has a great Book Care page that could be copied and placed near the classroom library.

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Lois Ehlert writes beautiful simple books worth looking at as a text set.

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Calvin Can’t Fly

The Story of a Bookworm Birdie

Jennifer Berne - author

@keithbendis - illustrator

@unionsqandco - publisher

✏️Love recommending this book to teachers when students are having trouble appreciating others interests and passions.

* Being oneself

* Discovering one’s passion

* List of 3s

* Ellipses

* Vocabulary (ex: eaves, fluttered)

* Flow of words and sentences

#readaloud #SELforkids #literaturelassos #kidslit #classroombooks #picturebooks #classroomlibrary #growthmindsetforkids

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An upper elementary teacher asked me for a Fall/Autumn book that students may not have heard in younger grades. I immediately thought of The Scarecrow. I then suggested that she could do an illustrator study with other Fan Brothers books, @thefanbrothers. I recommended Ocean Meets Sky and It Fell From The Sky. #literaturelassos #textset

📚The Scarecrow

Mentor text for: seasons; rhyming; friendship; alliteration

📚Ocean Meets Sky

Mentor text for: symbolism; wordless pages; exploration; page settings

📚It Fell From The Sky

Mentor text for: black and white pictures; use of color; vocabulary; quotation marks

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In the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds, a  frustrated student learns to “make her mark” by starting out with a simple dot. This week my school’s Art Teacher @paintthinkplay had the students doing the same thing. Love pairing Art and Literature!

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📚Alfie - (The turtle that disappeared)
✏️Recently bought Alfie after reading about the book in The Literacy Workshop by Karen Biggs and Maria’s Walther. Definitely is a mentor text for point of view but can also be used for
* A text set with noon-fiction books about turtle hibernation
* A mentor text time sequence
* Transition pages in a book - wordless black & white page to transition from Nia’s perspective to her turtle’s perswpetive
Thyra Heder - author
Abrams Books for Young Readers - publisher

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This would be a wonderful mentor text as party of a text set for a journey. An imaginative journey like in Where the Wild Things Are or a content journey like explorers. Explorers like Jacques Cousteau or Vikings.

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✏️A lovely story. Wonderful book to use as a mentor text for ways to use commas. And in a writing or literacy workshop introducing beginning, middle and end in a story.

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This is a great paired text set for:

• Building vocabulary
• Reviewing phonics with older students
• Discussing graphemes
• Using as a mini lesson for homonyms

Each has a wonderful glossary at the end of the book!
Authors: Raj Haldar & Chris Carpenter
Illustrators: Maria Tina Beddia & Bryce Gladfelter
Publisher: @sourcebookskids

#textsets #learninglassos #literaturelassos

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Engage students while reviewing math facts with Math Fables using counters. As you read each scene have your kids use counters to illustrate the story problems.

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Love how this biography picture book tells the story of Ezra Jack Keats and how he came to write The Snowy Day.

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Looking for a way to show students realistic examples of how to practice being nice, when you can be nice and why you should be nice then this is the perfect literature lasso for you.

Mentor Text for using ellipses in writing.

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Writing process for story writing. Particularly for generating ideas.

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How friendships can change.

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Looking for a book to read on Monday when Spring Break is over? (Or any break, or just returning fro the weekend). This is the book! An interactive book that will help your young students get out some wiggles and reminds them of the expectations for learning.

Also a good mentor text for superlatives.

Author: Brian Gehrlein (@BrianGehrlein)

Illustrator:  Tom Knight (@tomknightillustration)

Publisher: Ferrer Strauss Giroux (@mackidsbooks)

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Would make a great mentor text about similes: Brave like running-into-burning-buildings brave.  Or as a SEL mentor text for learning to accept yourself.

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Mindful ideas/Alliterations/Dedication Page

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Happy to have discovered this series. Love the puzzles to solve and the characters that attend Explorer Academy.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Read all year long!

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Math Literature Lassos

Check out this website that goes along with the books for more resources: https://www.mathstart.net

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Pulled this out for a read aloud in conjunction with Phonics Friday during our class meeting in 1st grade. We were reviewing sh and ch. I noticed students having trouble spelling with these in their writing. So after telling them @thesecretstories for these we made an anchor chart then read Sheep in a Jeep and listened for sh and ch words

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Friendship & Bullying

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Mentor Text Set for Senses

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Mentor Text Set for Persuasive Writing