Nick's Picks
Selected Resources from TeachingBooks.net
Nick Glass -- School Library Journal, 8/23/2007
I’m delighted to bring you this e-newsletter, offering relevant, multimedia online resources in support of Curriculum Connections’s authoritative content. My goal is to provide you with opportunities to enhance your lessons by integrating quality materials and technology into your curriculum. I strongly believe that the more methods and approaches we take to introducing books into our classrooms, the more enthusiastic our students will be.
Each month, Nick’s Picks will give you a flavor of some of the most exciting materials that TeachingBooks.net has created and/or found on the Web. We’ve organized our selections by type of resource, and offer some specific ideas on how to incorporate them into your lesson plans.
Write to us with your thoughts about these materials or any related activities that have been successful in your classroom. Thanks for your interest. Enjoy!
Activity: Introduce students (K–12) to the fine art of pulp painting through a visit to a master’s studio. In this video, students meet Denise Fleming, a Caldecott Honor Award winner, and watch as she demonstrates her techniques. Be sure to display some of Fleming’s books around your classroom and allow some time for students to examine her color-saturated, vibrant illustrations up close.
Activity: Before reading Carole Boston Weatherford’s Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Hyperion, 2006) or other books illustrated by Caldecott Honor Award-winner Kadir Nelson, have your students listen to this audio of the artist sharing the story of his name and a little bit about his life.
Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse, read by Ilyana Kadushin
Activity: Fans breathlessly awaiting the third installment of Bella and Edward’s story can whet their appetites by listening to this excerpt from the just-released Eclipse: A Vampire Love Story (Little, Brown, 2007).
Rosemary Wells’s My Kindergarten
Activity: This 24-page book guide offers songs, discussion points, and projects to extend each chapter of Rosemary Wells’s My Kindergarten (Hyperion, 2004).
Nick Glass is the Founder of TeachingBooks.net. Between college and graduate school, Nick spent six seasons as an executive in major league baseball. He is thrilled that this first Curriculum Connections e-newsletter has baseball references. nick@TeachingBooks.net
