Public Libraries and the Common Core Curriculum: Overview & Resources Presented by Kathleen Odean

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1 Public Libraries and the Common Core Curriculum: Overview & Resources Presented by Kathleen Odean COMMON CORE RESOURCES Common Core National Website corestandards.org/ Appendix B: corestandards.org/assets/appendix_b.pdf ALSC Common Core Resources ala.org/alsc/ccss-resources Edutopia lots of links about CCSS (non-profit educational website) edutopia.org/common-core-state-standards-resources Livebinder School Librarians and the Common Core Standards: Resources livebinders.com/play/play/84777 Understanding Common Core State Standards by John Kendall. ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), $ A useful 63-page paperback that explains the origins and content of the Common Core State Standards. ascd.org LEXILE RESOURCES Lexile Framework for Reading determines Lexile levels, provides search tool for books lexile.com/using-lexile/lexile-measures-and-the-ccssi Common Core Standards Appendix A Addresses text complexity and Lexiles. Common Core Standards Supplement to Appendix A Gives current Common Core Lexile goals. corestandards.org/assets/e0813_appendix_a_new_research_on_text_complexity.pdf BLOGS THAT INCLUDE COMMON CORE BOOKS Great Common Core Nonfiction (Grades 6 and up) Blog by Kathleen Odean Descriptions of books plus a possible tie-in to the standards, a fiction title, or a website. greatcommoncorenonfiction.com 1

2 Classroom Bookshelf Blog Excellent blog with extensive entries on new K-8 books with ideas and resources for using them. classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/ Great Kids Books Substantial discussion of children s books, including Common Core entries, for parents of children ages greatkidbooks.blogspot.com/ I.N.K. (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids) Authors of high quality nonfiction for children and teens blog about their books and nonfiction in general. inkrethink.blogspot.com STEM AND STEAM RESOURCES RIF (Reading is Fundamental) 2013 STEAM Multicultural Booklist (Grades Pre-K-5) 40 books plus activities rif.org/us/literacy-resources/multicultural/2012-multicultural-booklist.htm School Library Journal s STEAM Pinterest Board Dozens of programming ideas pinterest.com/sljournal/steam/ ALSC Common Core Resources STEM Programming Ideas for preschool, school age, family/all age programs simplystem.wikispaces.com/welcome+to+simply+s.t.e.m. Madison PL Library Makers Blog with tested hands-on programming ideas librarymakers.blogspot.com/ PBS Design Squad Nation Engage Kids in Hands-on Engineering Activities and other resources around engineering for ages 9-12; many ideas that could be used for programs. pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/index.html NONFICTION RESOURCES YALSA Excellence in YA Nonfiction Book Award ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction Sibert Medal for Nonfiction (through age 14) 2

3 ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal NCTE Orbis Pictus Award National Council of Teachers of English annual nonfiction award ncte.org/awards/orbispictus Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards (Nonfiction Category) hbook.com/boston-globe-horn-book-awards ALSC s Notable Children s Books Annual list that includes nonfiction as well as fiction for ages ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb YALSA s Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (includes nonfiction) ala.org/yalsa/quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers Booklist Editor s Choice booklistonline.com/booklist-editors-choice-2012/pid= Horn Book s Fanfare (Best Books of the Year) Has nonfiction section. hbook.com/2012/12/blogs/read-roger/horn-book-fanfare-2012/ Kirkus Children s Best Books of the Year Has nonfiction section kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2013/section/children/ Kirkus Teens Best Books of the Year Has nonfiction section kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2013/section/teen/ School Library Journal slj.com/2012/11/featured/best-books-2012/ AAAS/Suburu Prize for Excellence in Science Books sbfonline.com/subaru/pages/prizeshome.aspx NSTA (National Science Teachers Assn.) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K 12 annual list of fiction and nonfiction nsta.org/publications/ostb/ NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Notable Tradebooks for Young People annual booklist of fiction and nonfiction socialstudies.org/resources/notable 3

4 RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SOURCES Kathy Schrock s Guide Extensive links. schrockguide.net/primary-sources.html Livebinder Teaching with Primary Sources created by Mary Johnson - livebinders.com/play/play/4376 Library of Congress American Memory curated collections memory.loc.org World Digital Library - Free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents from all countries. wdl.org/en/ National Archives Extraordinary collection of digitized primary resources archives.org National Archives Education Section for teachers archives.org/education National Archives Docs Teach Curated collections, tools for education docsteach.org Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division loc.gov/rr/print/ New York Public Library Digital Gallery/Historical Photographs digitalgallery.nypl.org Flickr Creative Commons Search LOC, National Archives, and others flickr.com/creativecommons/ FOR PARENTS Florida Department of Ed Just for Parents Newsletter September 2012 on CCSS fldoe.org/newsletter/justforparents/2012/jfp_september_newsletter.pdf Brochure for Parents from New York State Includes PDF of A Parent's Guide to Common Core Learning, which has a useful checklist of what parents can do. engageny.org/parent-guides-to-the-common-core-standards 4

5 CHILDREN S & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS IN WEBINAR Bishop, Nic. Frogs Bolden, Tonya. Maritcha: A Remarkable Nineteenth-Century Girl Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party Corey, Shana. Illus. by Chesley McLaren. You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer: A Very Improper Story Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy DeCristofano, Carolyn. A Black Hole Is Not a Black Hole Dendy, Leslie A., and Mel Boring. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold "Test Pilots" Of Science & Medicine Floca, Brian. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad Together McCarthy, Meghan. The Story of Charles Atlas, Strong Man McNamara, Margaret. Illus. by G. Brian Karas. How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? Montgomery, Sy. The Tapir Scientist Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire Paulsen, Gary. Guts Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Illus. by J. Brian Pinkney. Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra Sheinkin, Steve. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon St. George, Judith. Illus. by David Small. So You Want to Be President?

6 2013 Books: NONFICTION BOOKS WITH INTERNET TIE-INS Compiled by Kathleen Odean January 2014 Aronson, Marc, and Lee R. Berger. The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins. 64pp (M J) Lexile: Related: scimania.org Close, Chuck. Chuck Close: Face Book. 56pp (M J) Related: Youtube - search Chuck Close & Good Morning America. Letter to youngr self Hernandez, Daniel with Susan Goldman Rubin. They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth. 224pp (M J S) Lexile: 930 Related: youtube video of Hernandez speech (search Daniel Hernandez tedx) Hoose, Phillip M. Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B pp (M J) Lexile: Related: PBS Video Crash: A Tale of Two Species (pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/crash-a-tale-of-two-species/introduction/592/) Moon, Sarah, ed. The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves. 272pp (J S) Related: Youtube book trailer for The Letter Q Myers, Walter Dean. Just Write: Here's How. 176pp (J S) Related: Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman (see youtube video of the two authors talking) Published before 2012: Beals, Melba. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High pp. Lexile Related: PBS Eyes on the Prize segment on Southern School Desegregation, which includes an interview with Beals. Find excerpt here: Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party pp. Lexile

7 Related: PBS website American Experience episode, website on the Donner party: Collins, Michael. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story Rev. Ed. 162pp. Lexile Related: At John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website (jfklibrary.org), students can read, see an excerpt from, and listen to President Kennedy's speech, "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, Dendy, Leslie A., and Mel Boring. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold "Test Pilots" Of Science & Medicine pp. Lexile Related: Youtube video from the History Channel titled "Colonel Stapp Takes a Lot of G's," with remarkable footage of John Paul Stapp's self-experiments on deceleration. Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life pp. Lexile Related: At the author's website, candacefleming.com, view the 4-minute Classroom Cast video of her from Random House in which she talks about writing biographies Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane pp. Lexile Related: See more of Wright Brothers original photographs and even short video at Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist pp. Lexile Related: 1. Students can further explore letters written by and to Van Gogh at a website of Amsterdam s Van Gogh Museum Students can look at the many paintings of Amsterdam s Van Gogh Museum, organized both alphabetically and by category, presented with useful notes. Jackson, Donna M. The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes against Nature. Related: Website of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory, which this book describes ( 7

8 NONFICTION/FICTION PAIRS Grades 6-10 Compiled by Kathleen Odean January 2014 NF: Aaseng, Nathan. Navajo Code Talkers FIC: Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two NF: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine FIC: Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's Song NF: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow FIC: Chotjewitz, David. Daniel, Half-Human: The Nazis Come to Power FIC: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The Boy Who Dared NF: Bausum, Ann. Denied, Detained, Deported FIC: Engle, Margarita. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba FIC: Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower NF: Bausum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote FIC: Frost, Helen. Crossing Stones NF: Bial, Raymond. Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side NF: Linda Granfield s 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life FIC: Avi. City of Orphans NF: Blumberg, Rhoda. The Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook FIC: Hesse, Karen. Stowaway NF: Blumberg, Rhoda. Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy FIC: Preus, Margi. Heart of a Samurai NF: Blumenthal, Karen. Bootleg : Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition FIC: Lisle, Janet Taylor. Black Duck NF: Bolden, Tonya. Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, FIC: Ingold, Jeanette. Hitch NF: Bolden, Tonya. Maritcha: A Remarkable Nineteenth-Century Girl FIC: Myers, Walter Dean. Riot. 192pp. NF: Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

9 FIC: Crowe, Chris. Mississippi Trial, NF: Freedman, Russell. The War to End All Wars: World War I FIC: Spillebeen, Geert. Kipling's Choice NF: Hill, Laban. Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance FIC: Myers, Walter Dean. Harlem Summer NF: Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews FIC: Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars NF: Marrin, Albert. Flesh and Blood So Cheap : The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy FIC: Haddix, Margaret Peterson.. Uprising NF: Meissner, David. Call of the Klondike: A True Gold Rush Adventure FIC: London, Jack. The Call of the Wild NF: Murphy, Jim. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of FIC: Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, NF: Murphy, Jim, and Alison Blank. Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never- Ending Search for a Cure FIC: Martha Brook. Queen of Hearts NF: Murphy, Jim. A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy FIC: Anderson, Laurie Halse. Forge pp. NF: Myers, Walter Dean. Just Write: Here's How FIC: Myers, Walter Dean, and Ross Goldman. Kick NF: Schlissel, Lillian. Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West FIC: Wilson, Diane Lee. Black Storm Comin' NF: Smithson, Ryan. Ghosts of War FIC: Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise over Fallujah NF: Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland FIC: Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Blood on the River : James Town NF: Warren, Andrea. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story FIC: Cushman, Karen. Rodzina