https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c A teeny tiny portion of the books that will be wonderful for my future classroom! en-us 2019-02-01 16:40:14 UTC 2019-04-04 15:21:24 UTC hello@padlet.com dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/326767962 This would be good for younger grades and upper elementary as it has beautiful illustrations that spark imagination but it also has important lessons. The two main lessons are about kindness and that "people can change the way they see"]]> 2019-02-01 16:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/326767962 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328112771 The wording and syntax are easy to understand but portray complex concepts for being human such as having dreams and being afraid of new things. This would be an appropriate read aloud for all elementary ages. The bright pictures help illustrate the ideals presented and also show hyperbole.]]> 2019-02-06 05:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328112771 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328113868 This book represents cultural diversity very well with accompanying illustrations and conceptually difficult concepts. It talks about cultural foods which is relatable for some kids. It also deals with the idea of being an outsider and also making friends. The illustrations have more warmer tones then cool making them look inviting. This would be appropriate for upper elementary.]]> 2019-02-06 05:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328113868 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328114162 This book talks about creativity and personifies it for easier understanding for any elementary age children. The personified idea is colorful in the book whereas the rest of the illustrations are in shades of black, white, and gray but the things the idea touches are also colorful until the entire illustration is colorful. ]]> 2019-02-06 05:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328114162 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328758825 The illustrations in this book are magnificent and super detailed. This would be an amazing interactive read aloud for all elementary grades and second and up would love to read it themselves to discover all the details in the illustrations. It's fiction but it has elements of science in it about space, stars, the human body. It also talks about how each person fits into society.]]> 2019-02-07 14:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328758825 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328765810 This book would be a great read aloud because it is very interactive it asks questions that kids can think about and answer. The book teaches an important lesson that heroes are everyday people and that by hard work you can accomplish anything. It also shows diversity and was written by a black women senator.]]> 2019-02-07 14:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328765810 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328770615 This book is an fantastic version of Malala's story for kids to understand the hardships she went through for the right for her and her female peers to go to school, something taken for granted most of the time for kids. This shows them another version of reality different from their own. It shows how hard work gets you places, not wishing. This would be a great read aloud for upper elementary. ]]> 2019-02-07 15:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328770615 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328773395 This book is historical and shows how powerful and brilliant women are, specifically black women. The concepts in this are very complex although the illustrations help with understanding and some vocabulary, like segregation, is explained. ]]> 2019-02-07 15:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328773395 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328781235 Grumpy Monkey is a wonderful book to read to all elementary kids that isn't overly complex because it teaches kids an important lesson that it is okay to have a bad day and not know why, but that tomorrow will be better. It's a relatable and comical book. The pictures add to the sense of comedy using animals instead of people. ]]> 2019-02-07 15:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328781235 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328798357 This would be a great book to use pieces of for different lessons about different letters or words. Some of the examples are very complex but there are context clues in the illustrations. There are lessons about being well mannered and kind and also it's hilarious. ]]> 2019-02-07 15:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328798357 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328802016 This book follows a little inventor girl and her assistant (her dog) as she decides she wants to invent the "most magnificent thing". The text is not very complex so it would be easy for kids to read themselves but also a great read aloud, maybe in science. It shows her getting frustrated as part of the process which is good for kids to see that it's okay, that happens, but to move on and keep trying]]> 2019-02-07 15:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/328802016 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329216313 This is a wonderful book based on a true story of a woman who survived the 2014 Boston marathon bombing. This book would be a wonderful read aloud for kids to. This book tells the story of a little girl who loses both legs and a puppy who was originally supposed to be a seeing eye dog but ends up becoming the little girls guide dog. This would be a great book to have in the classroom because it helps kids understand what guide dogs do and how they help their owner. And you never know when one of their classmates might have a guide dog for something. ]]> 2019-02-08 14:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329216313 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329226786 This would be great read aloud that could be paired with a lesson on pollution, the environment, or just something to get kids thinking about their actions. The text isn't conceptually difficult and it puts it into things kids know like going to the zoo or going to their grandparents. The illustrations provide a visual for what it would look like if everybody did the negative actions he does in the book.]]> 2019-02-08 15:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329226786 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329235261 This book is about 13 woman who have made impacts on history. It always show girls of color as well . This would be a really great book for second to upper elementary. This book shows girls that they should pursue their dreams regardless of what people may say to them. This book includes some more well known women such as, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, but also ones less well known such as Virgina Apgar, Claudette Colvin, and Margaret Chase Smith.ll]]> 2019-02-08 15:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329235261 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329513770 This book teaches about being kind and one girl doing her best to show kindness is all the ways she can. She makes a new friend, she shows how volunteering and talking to different members of the community shows kindness. The concepts in this book are only moderately complex and it would be a great read for any elementary school level. ]]> 2019-02-09 18:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329513770 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329514831 This book tells the story of a curious little girl named Ada and her figuring out the why and what and how of the world. The whole book is in rhymes which makes it easier for kids to read and more fun for a read aloud. There is a little bit of complex vocabulary such as "frazzled" and "chaos" and "pungent". ]]> 2019-02-09 18:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329514831 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329516579 This book tells the story of a seed who is mean and not a very nice seed to anyone but it's because he almost got eaten, making him the way he was. But then he realizes that's no way to act and corrects his behavior. He says he's not perfect all the time but he does his best to be better, which is a great lesson for kids. The concepts are relatively simple making it an appropriate read aloud for all elementary students. ]]> 2019-02-09 18:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329516579 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329517351 This book tells kids how much words and kindness matters. It's important for kids to realize how powerful, in a good and a bad way, their words can be and this illustrates that very well. It would be a great book in kingdergarten up through third because it is on the simpler side but a good reminder about the power of words for any grade. ]]> 2019-02-09 18:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/329517351 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/331959143 This books is about a real life event that happened at the Central Park Zoo in New York City between two male chinstrap penguins who fell in love. Their names are Roy and Silo. The two penguins in the story notice how all the girl and boy penguins like each other and become couples, which they themselves do, and then see that those couples can do something they can't. The girl lays an egg and then the two take turns keeping it warm. The keeper of the penguins finds an egg for the two and they take care of it and learn how to take care of Tango (because it takes two to Tango, hence her name) as she grows. It has somewhat predictive text that helps kids be able to understand the slightly complex ideal conveyed in the text. ]]> 2019-02-16 04:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/331959143 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/332035881 This is a wonderfully diverse book that shows kids what 5 kids around the world do during their day that is both similar and different from what an American child would typically know. The kids in the book are based off of real life kids that were made into characters for this book. It shows what the kids eat for breakfast, where they live, their family structure, what clothes they wear. This book is not very complex but some vocabulary and locations that kids might not know are underlined, perhaps so they can look them up or ask someone else. This book takes the common idea of a day of getting ready for and going to school and showing how universal it is but the differences in the details. ]]> 2019-02-16 20:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/332035881 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/332697902 This story is based on supermodel Georgie Badiel's childhood and the journey she, her mother, and the other women in the village took to get water in Africa. She calls herself a princess and says that her kingdom is the African sky. She wishes for water and wants it to appear but it isn't going to and she wishes her village had water. The book is not too textually complex although it could be hard for kids to understand why Georgie's village doesn't have water but it's good for kids to see what other kids around the world have to do in their daily lives, especially to get something we generally take for granted. This would be a good read aloud for maybe later first through upper elementary. ]]> 2019-02-19 14:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/332697902 dturne29 https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/348575984 T]]> 2019-04-04 15:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dturne29/89ba623pby3c/wish/348575984