This MF picture book by Jeff Brown and illustrated by Scott Nash is great! The visuals and writing style is great for kids to love! Stanley got flatten after a bulletin board falls on him and realizes how fun being flat can be! Check out the book to see if he can be ordinary again! #ucflae3414sp17 check out this great resource and geography lesson: http://kepner.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/5/9/8759008/flat_stanley_lessons.pdf

Echo Echo is a great poetry book! Similar to Mirror Mirror, but it's poems about Greek myths. The poems tell real world stories from heroes and monsters, once down the page and another when reading reverse. This is a great book for students to understand different points of view! I really liked what this website suggested with duet reading: http://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/2016/04/echo-echo-reverso-poems-about-greek... #ucflae3414sp17

This great HF book is written by Jennifer L. Holm. This book shows some of the struggles from the Great Depression era. Turtle is a very stubborn child and has to face the challenges of moving from Hollywood to Florida. This would be a great lit circle book. Read to find out more about Turtle. #ucflae3414sp17 check out this resource for teaching this book: https://www.novelstudies.org/downloads/Turtle_In_Paradise_Novel_Study_Preview.pd...

This NF book is great for children to learn about different parts of the world! The book has great illustrations and shows different cultures great! This book would be great for a SS unit on different places in the world. #ucflae3414sp17 Here is a great lesson plan for students: http://www.owlkidsbooks.com/Portals/0/4.ATicketAroundTheWorld_0326.pdf

This Fantasy book by Dr. Seuss is such a great book! It has wonderful illustrations that the children will love! The story is about a moose, and has a theme of what goes around comes around (karma). If you treat other good, good things will happen to you but if you treat people bad, bad things will happen to you! #ucflae3414sp17 check out the Seuss website: http://m.seussville.com/index.html

Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer is a great book of poems for students! It includes poetry of very familiar TL stories that children know and love! It also includes a different way of reading, from bottom to top, along with top to bottom reading which children will love! It repeats what it says, great for increasing fluency! #ucflae3414sp17 Look at these lesson plans: http://www.penguin.com/static/images/yr/pdf/LessonPlans_MirrorMirror.pdf

This NF book titled Grand Canyon by Jason Chin is a great book for students to learn information about the Grand Canyon! It talks about the different animals that lives in the Grand Canyon, and how it got formed and the elements that make it up! There are loads of interesting facts in this book! #ucflae3414sp17 Have students check out this link for more information: http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-the-grand-canyon/

This great animal fantasy by Ethan Long is a great book for kids! The illustrations are great and the book even flips out to engage the kids! The book involved comparing birds, accepting their differences, and shows friendship! It also won the Theodor Seuss Geisel award! #ucflae3414sp17 Check out this great website for a lesson plan: http://www.ethanlong.com/grade-k-art-lesson-plan/

This biography chapter book by George E. Stanley is a good book for children to read and learn about Corey's Scott King's childhood. It includes many details of her life, along with some illustrations to go along with the book! The book also offers great extended resources for kids! #ucflae3414sp17 check out this great resource:http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/coretta-scott-king-born-20685.html

This TL story by Eileen Christelow is a great book for children! It helps to teach them a lesson, and it is a very common with kids and many of them love it! The five monkeys learn one by one that it's not nice to tease Mr. Crocodile! #ucflae3414sp17 check out this very interesting website for use in the classroom: http://www.christelow.com/five-little-monkeys-sitting-in-a-tree-by-eileen-christ...

This RF book, Grace for President, is such a good book for children. The pictures are outstanding and really are a great for EL students. The book helps to understand the election process and the electoral college which is great for a social studies lesson! Check out this link for additional classroom activities: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collections/teaching-content/elections/hickl... #ucflae3414sp17

This NF book, Actual Size by Steve Jenkins, is a must read! The book contains actual size and measurements of animals that children will love and even has a fold out as shown above! Using excitement in your voice would really draw the children attention! The book also would be a great tool for teaching math! Check out this resource for additional classroom info: http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Actual-Size-lesson.html
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