Looking for the best children's books about jobs? These children's books will be engaging for your students! Picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Children's books about jobs for Career Day, high interest days, studying various professions, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! How This Book Was Made by Mac Barnett A book about what it's actually like to be an author told in the funniest, truest way possible? Sign me up! You may think you know how this book was made, but you don't. Sure, the author wrote ... read more
33 New and Notable Spanish Children’s Books
Looking for the best Spanish children's books for your Spanish literacy instruction? These children's books in Spanish will be engaging for your students! Spanish picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Picture books in Spanish for back to school, STEM, holidays, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Las jirafas no pueden bailar / Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae Giraffes Can't Dance is a touching tale of Gerald the giraffe, who wants nothing more than to dance. With crooked knees and thin legs, it's ... read more
The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought For Justice With Art by Cynthia Levinson
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk. Great for studying community, Jewish Americans, painters / muralists and social justice! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)close reading illustrations for informationanalyzing character traitscomparing and contrastingmain idea and detailsintegrating knowledge from multiple sourcesauthor's message / lesson The lesson plans include: teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discussprintable prompts for student post-reading responses ... read more
Saving American Beach by Heidi Tyline King
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch by Heidi Tyline King and Ekua Holmes. This is a great book for teaching about environmental advocacy, activism, perseverance or for Black History Month in February! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (four strategies: timeline, narrative retelling, Somebody Wanted But Then So, and graphic organizer of story elements)describing character traits / characteristicsclose reading illustrationsmain idea and detailsauthor's message / lessoncomparing and contrasting The lesson plans include: teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to ... read more
34 New and Noteworthy Bilingual Children’s Books You Need to Read
Looking for the best bilingual children's books for your English and Spanish literacy instruction? These children's books in English and Spanish will be engaging for your students! Bilingual picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Bilingual children's books in for back to school, STEM, holidays, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Giraffes Can’t Dance / Las jirafas no pueden bailar by Giles Andreae Giraffes Can't Dance is a touching tale of Gerald the giraffe, who wants nothing more than to dance. With ... read more
7 New and Notable Children’s Books About the Iditarod Race
Looking for the best children's books about the Iditarod? These children's books about sled dogs will be engaging for your students! Picture books about the Iditarod Race with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Children's books about famous sled dogs, races, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Togo by Robert Blake Heard of Balto? Probably. Heard of Togo? Probably not, but Togo is the name you should know. Togo wasn't meant to be a sled dog. He was too feisty and independent to make a good team member, let alone a ... read more
27 New and Noteworthy Diverse Picture Books About Scientists
Looking for the best picture books about scientists? These children's books will be engaging for your students! Picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Diverse children's books about scientists, inventors, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed Inspired by the story of Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space. When Little Mae was a child, she dreamed of dancing in space. She imagined herself surrounded by billions of stars floating gliding and discovering. ... read more
20 New and Noteworthy Children’s Books About Teachers
Looking for the best children's books about teachers? These children's books about teachers will be engaging for your students! Picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Picture books about teachers, substitute teachers, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school. So begins this quirky classic, first ... read more
15 Best Authentic Spanish Children’s Books
Looking for the best authentic Spanish children's books for your Spanish literacy instruction? These children's books written in Spanish will be engaging for your students! Authentic Spanish picture books with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Authentic Spanish texts for back to school, STEM, holidays, and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson Plans button in the menu! Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos / Frida Kahlo And Her Animalitos by Monica Brown Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos, written by Monica Brown and illustrated by John Parra, is based on the life ... read more
28 New and Noteworthy Ideas For Read Across America
Looking for the best ideas for Read Across America? These children's books for Read Across America that are not Dr. Seuss will be engaging for your students! Picture books with lesson plans and activities linked for your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students. Picture books about America's diversity and culture, states, American history and more for your elementary school students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books! Read Across America Week is a week celebrating all things reading in America. It used to be just a celebration of noted author and illustrator Dr. Seuss on his birthday. Now, the holiday is supposed to celebrate getting kids reading from sea to shining sea! If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan and activity for these books! Just click on the Lesson ... read more