The Picture Book Almanac
The Picture Book Almanac

Author: Nancy J. Polette

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 175

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This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette's The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.

Flowers 101, Bubbly Picture Book
Flowers 101, Bubbly Picture Book

Author: Dr. Harpal Sodhi

Publisher: Harpal Sodhi

Published: 2020-04-18

Total Pages: 106

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Flowers 101, Bubbly Picture Book Flowers are often used to express certain emotions. They are used as a symbol of love and friendship. Its true flowers emit positive energy. This is a picture book of very beautiful variety of flowers. It is the food for the eyes and the mind for flowers lovers. Just like a butterfly goes from flower to flower in search of nectar, your eyes will go from page to page to view the beauty of unique flowers in this book. Many people in the world do not get the opportunity to see and admire such unusual flowers. These photographs of flowers will serve several purposes. This book is useful for art educators, art students, graphic designers, business of greeting cards, calendars and posters, textile designers, interior decorators, interior designers and more. The photographs of flowers are of real flowers in America. Some of the unusual shapes, colors and sizes of flowers seem to be unreal but each and every photograph is of real flowers. “Flowers 101” has hundred and one photographs of adorable flowers. In many parts of America these flowers are only visible in spring, summer and fall. I am a lover of all beautiful things and the beauty and the uniqueness of these flowers inspired me to create Bubbly picture books. My other flower books are Flowers 51 & Flowers 99. Dr. Harpal Sodhi

Linking Picture Book Biographies to National Content Standards
Linking Picture Book Biographies to National Content Standards

Author: Liz Deskins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 178

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Presenting beautifully illustrated picture book biographies, this book pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in the social studies, science, and the arts. The current focus on promoting nonfiction reading at all ages has brought to attention the value of narrative nonfiction in the form of new picture book biographies. But which of the thousands of these types of titles will have maximum teaching impact and be interesting to students? This book identifies the "best of the best" in new picture book biographies that are rich in language and illustrations and best support national content standards in science, social studies, and the arts. Written by authors with a combined experience of more than 50 years in teaching as well as extensive knowledge of children's literature and the review of such books, the book provides—in a single resource—the best in recently published picture book biographies that rely on primary and secondary sources, the best in storytelling styles, and the most engaging illustrations. The unit and lesson ideas within can be used as is or modified as needed. The selected biographies enable connections between the stories of individuals' lives in history and required areas of study.

Picture-Book Professors
Picture-Book Professors

Author: Melissa Terras

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108540325

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How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books
Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books

Author: Ana Lado

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2012-09-12

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1452235236

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For beginning ELLs, a picture really is worth a thousand words! Picture books can unlock puzzling cultural and social meanings for students at all ages and grade levels. ELL educator Ana Lado illustrates how picture books are an especially useful tool for building important language and social foundations--foundations that students may miss through traditional instruction. Lado provides all the tools you need to engage your ELLs with picture books, including how to design lesson plans around themed units, select appropriate picture books using specific criteria, incorporate fun and engaging strategies like singing and reenacting, integrate picture-book learning to facilitate development of English language proficiency. In addition, you will gain access to a searchable online database to find just the right book for your lessons, based on author, title, genre, and English language proficiency level. With practical classroom-friendly techniques, Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books helps you transform your lessons into richly illustrated learning opportunities.

Writers' & Artists' Guide to Writing for Children and YA
Writers' & Artists' Guide to Writing for Children and YA

Author: Linda Strachan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1472970047

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The W&A Guide to Writing for Children and YA provides informed, practical advice from a successful and experienced writer of children's books across all ages. Its coverage includes picture books through middle grade and young adult; fiction and non-fiction; books for reluctant readers and books for the education market. It is one author's lifetime of experience distilled into an engaging guide on how to manage, kickstart or begin your writing career. This is a heavily revised and expanded edition of Linda's Writing for Children (2008). Much has happened in both Linda's writing life and in the world of children's books since then. Staying true to the essence of the original, the new edition includes more advice and experience to reflect changes in digital publishing, self-publishing, and the explosion of YA and children's writing more broadly.

Better Reading Now
Better Reading Now

Author: Larry Swartz

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1551389487

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Based on what we now know about reading, this practical book offers strategies in a consistent format that is easy for teachers to incorporate in their daily instruction. This grab-bag of classroom-tested activities allows teachers to choose what they need to meet the diverse needs of students in grades 1 through 8. These strategies guide students through the reading process and build important comprehension skills through reading, talk, art, drama, and more. These innovative ways to use the best children’s books will inspire students to become enthusiastic and avid readers, and take the first giant step into becoming lifelong readers.

A Decent Proposal
A Decent Proposal

Author: Rhonda Whitton

Publisher: Common Ground

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1863350454

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Practical guide for authors wishing to approach a book publisher or agent with a manuscript or book proposal. Includes cartoons and other illustrations, useful contacts list, model book proposals, and bibliography. Published simultaneously in paperback and as a downloadable PDF file. Whitton is a freelance writer and journalist, teacher of specialist writing courses, and author of 'The Australian Writer's Marketplace'. Hollingworth is a freelance writer and cartoonist working primarily in the corporate sector. They have also collaborated on 'Mission Possible: How to Make Money from Your Writing'.