Curriculum Guides and Links
Rationale: As a
lifelong educator, I appreciate the value of
well-conceived
and thoughtful learning activities that are standards-based and focus
on
what we want children to know and be able to do. Standards help
us
to focus our educational efforts, guiding us, as educators--and
students
themselves--toward worthwhile learning endeavors that go far beyond the
gluing of cotton balls and coloring of photocopied images of past
generations.
Children's literature offers such a fine opportunity to springboard into the content standards, not only in Language Arts, but also in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, the Arts and Humanities, Technology, and, of course, Information Literacy.
Invitation to Contribute: These
curriculum guides are meant as
a starting point. If you design a learning activity to accompany
one of my books that you'd like me to consider adding to one of my
guides,
please feel free to e-mail
me
and share your idea! I'll happily give you credit along with your
activity if I post it.
Curriculum Guides and Learning Links for Toni Buzzeo's Children's Books
Jacket Art
©2002
by Mary GrandPré
The
Sea Chest. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. Dial Books
for Young Readers, 2002.
Jacket Art
©2003
by Margaret Spengler
Dawdle
Duckling.
Illustrated by Margaret Spengler. Dial Books for Young Readers,
2003.
Ready or Not, Dawdle
Duckling.
Illustrated by Margaret Spengler. Dial Books for Young Readers,
2005.
Curriculum
Connections for Ready or Not, Dawdle Duckling
Teaching
About Ducks Duck
Books for Kids Ready or Not, Dawdle
Duckling Reader's Theater
Jacket Art @2004 Margaret Spengler
Little Loon and Papa.
Illustrated by Margaret Spengler. Dial Books for Young Readers,
2004.
Jacket Art ©2006 by Sachiko Yoshikawa
Our Librarian Won't Tell Us
ANYTHING!
Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa. Upstart Books,
2006.Our
Librarian Won't Tell Us ANYTHING! Curriculum Guide
Librarians in Picture
Books Our Librarian Won't Tell Us ANYTHING!
Reader's Theater