Grade: First grade

Class: English

Learning Standard:

OA_01: Understand short and simple texts read by an adult or in audio-visual format, such as: rhymes and chants, songs, stories, and dialogues.

About the book:

This children's book is about a young boy named Brian that finds a salamander in the woods. He wants to keep it and take care of it, but not in a box, so he decides to make the perfect home for it in his room. Brian starts to choose different things, thinking what will make the salamander happy, such as leaves, bugs, a pond, even animals. In his imagination, the room slowly transforms into a wild forest. It will teach students about kindness, imagination, responsibility and nature care, exemplifying with Brian's actions.

Grade: First grade

Class: English

Learning Standard:

OA_4: Listen to spoken texts and apply strategies to support comprehension

For example:

- Make connections with prior knowledge.

- Relate the text to images.

About the book:

“The Tooth Book” is a fun, rhythmic, and educational book about teeth, who has them, who doesn’t, and why they are used for. The book uses humor and rhyme to engage students while also giving information facts about human and animal teeth. It introduces learners to the importance of teeth, how to take care of them, and the many different kinds of creatures that have teeth or don’t.

Grade: First grade

Class: Science

Learning Standard:

OA_11: Describe and record the daily cycle and the differences between day and night, based on the observation of the Sun, the Moon, the stars, the brightness of the sky, among others, and their effects on living beings and the environment.

About the book:

The book is about a group of animals that are questioning about day and night. In the book the owl takes the role of connoisseur and explains the scientific reason behind why we experience daytime and nighttime on Earth. The book uses simple language and illustrations to show that the Earth rotates, and explains that when one side of the Earth faces the Sun, it is day; when it turns away from the Sun, it becomes night. The story helps young readers understand this concept through easy explanations. The book is very colorful which makes it eye-catching for children and the characters are animals, which help to call the attention of students too.

This book is appropriate to read in science because it can be very helpful to teach difficult ideas (daytime and nighttime, rotation of the sun, etc) in simple words, which makes it interesting for students of first grade because they are learning about this in the unit 4 that year.