Are you looking for library lessons featuring award-winning picture books that are fun to share with students? Would you like printable activity pages, STEAM challenges AND lesson extensions for each of those books! You’ve found them!
This bundle of lessons has 282 total pages, and includes library lessons for these 21 honored picture books:
- A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Sibert Informational Book Honor; Geisel Honor)
- Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominee)
- Bear Has a Belly by Jane Whittingham (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
- Berry Song by Michaela Goade (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Caldecott Honor)
- Big Truck Little Island by Chris Van Dusen (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
- Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme by Avery Monsen (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Florida Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Nominee; Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee; Oklahoma Redbud Read-Aloud Award)
- Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book by Carrie Tillotson (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Oklahoma Redbud Read-Aloud Award)
- Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! by Laurel Snyder (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award Nominees)
- Hot Dog by Doug Salati (Caldecott Medal)
- I Was Born a Baby by Meg Fleming (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Oklahoma Redbud Read-Aloud Award)
- I’m Hungry/Tengo hambre! by Angela Dominguez (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
- Mina by Matthew Forsythe (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Charlotte Zolotow Award)
- Odd Birds: Meet Nature’s Weirdest Flock by Laura Gehl (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
- Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; WEMTA Inclusive Picture Book)
- Pizza! A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List)
- Powwow Day by Traci Sorell (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Charlotte Zolotow Award; Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award Nominee; WEMTA Inclusive Picture Book)
- Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild by Joshua David Stein (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award Nominee; Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List)
- Somewhere in the Bayou by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; Michigan Great States’ Great Books Award Nominee)
- That’s Not My Name by Anoosha Syed (Texas 2 x 2 reading list; WEMTA Inclusive Picture Book)
- Vamonos/Let’s Go! by Rene Colato Lainez (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
- Where in the World Are You? by Marie G. Rohde (Texas 2 x 2 reading list)
The library lesson plan for each book includes:
- Discussion questions
- One or more printable activity pages
- A STEAM challenge
- Extension activities, for those with a longer class period
- The picture books are not included with this product. You can purchase these picture book titles, add them to your collection, or borrow them from your public library.
Standards Addressed:
AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.
- Inquire – B.3. – C.1. – C.2. – C.3. – C.4. – D.1. – D.2. – D.3. – D.4.
- Collaborate -B.1. – D.1.
- Explore – A.1. – B.1. – B.2.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards –
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- Kindergarten: CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL K.1. – RL K.3. – RL K.6. – RL K.10. – RI K.1. – RI K.3. – RI K.4. – RI K.5. – RI K.6. – RI K.10. – SL K.1, – SL K.1a. – SL K.2. – SL K.6.
- First Grade: CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL 1.1. – RL 1.3. – RL 1.4. – RL 1.5. – RL 1.6. – RL 1.7. – RI 1.1. – RI 1.2. – RI 1.3. – RI 1.4. – RI 1.6. – RI 1.7. – SL 1.1. – SL 1.1a. – SL 1.1b. – SL 1.1c. – SL 1.2. – SL 1.6.
- Second Grade: CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL 2.1. – RL 2.3. – RL 2.4 – RL 2.5. – RL 2.6. – RL 2.7. – RI 2.1. – RI 2.3. – RI 2.4. – RI 2.7. – SL 2.1. – SL 2.1a. – SL 2.1b. – SL 2.1c. – SL 2.2. – SL 2.6.
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS) –
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- Kindergarten TEKS: ELAR K.1.A – K.1.C – K.1.D – K.2.D.i – K.2.D.ii – K.5.B – K.6.B – K.6.E – K.7.B – K.7.C – K.7.D, K.9.D
- First Grade TEKS: ELAR 1.1.A – 1.1.C – 1.1.D – 1.2.D – 1.6.B – 1.6.C – 1.6.E – 1.6.F – 1.7.D – 1.7.F – 1.8B – 1.8C – 1.8D – 1.10E
- Second Grade TEKS: ELAR 2.1.A – 2.1.C – 2.1.D – 2.1.E – 2.6.B – 2.6.C – 2.6.E – 2.6.F – 2.7.C – 2.7.D – 2.7.F – 2.8.B – 2.8.C – 2.8.D
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