Sync Up! Books? Electronic Resources?

Why not use it all?

Presented by Jessica Bartholomew Scheller, Klein ISD

jscheller1@kleinisd.net

Sally Rasch, Aldine ISD (sarasch@aldineisd.org )

TLA April 2015

History Repeats Itself

• First came the theatre

• Then the movies (theatre will be no more)

• Then TV ( no more movies or theatre)

• They are all still here with each finding its place.

Know yourself

• Do you prefer to play on the internet or read?

• Do you prefer to read on a device or read a book?

• Why?

• Does it depend on your purpose for reading?

Example: The Monuments Men

• Watched the movie The Monuments Men • Researched The Monuments Men using history databases • Read informational books on The Monuments Men • Read other books on WWII and art for example of returning

art to Jewish people – Information online – The Woman Who Heard Color by Kelley Jones (AD) – Novels such as The Heist Society by Ally Carter (YA)

Have you had experiences like this? Discuss.

Book to Electronics Ideas

- beginning with a Fiction piece (mentor text)

• Read the book The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levi Openheim.

• The book is about WWII in Europe.

• After reading the book what questions do you have? Make a chart.

• Have students select a question to research using district databases.

Variation on the theme – nonfiction as mentor text

Just Being Audrey – biography of Audrey Hepburn, mentions her experience during WWII and how it a affected her life and work with the United Nations Check out her childhood drawings: http://thethoughtexperiment.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/audrey-hepburn-and-the-war-featuring-her-childhood-drawings/ Monsieur Marceau – biography of Marcel Marceau, mentions his experience in WWII and its effect on his life and work Create timelines – groups can create separate timelines (of people and significant events) and put them together to show parallel events (use standard scale to mark years)

OR Use these titles to compare authors’ approaches to the genre; character study, character traits

Book to Electronics Ideas

• Read Dear Primo, Same, Same But Different or It’s Back to School We Go – or groups read books and report observations and draw conclusions of similarities and differences of cultures

• Create a Venn diagram of two cultures • Look up 2 cultures on Culture Grams or other

Database and do a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting cultures

• Draw a conclusion of which country you would want to live in? Why? Use your research to justify your answer.

Electronics to Books

• Find information on Ruby Bridges using Gale Group including actual video footage.

• Discover books and autobiography

Actual Documents and Photos

• Smithsonian:

http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html

• Library of Congress

• http://www.loc.gov/

• National Archives

• http://www.archives.gov/education/

Our Presidents

http://amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/lincoln/ Picture Book Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman Rutherford B Who Was He? Poems about our Presidents by Marilyn Singer You’re On Your Way Teddy Roosevelt by Judith St. George Idea: In the book of poetry assign a pair of students a poem. Have them read the poem and then write what the poem is saying about the president. Next research the assigned president and compare and contrast what you have learned. Use the Research Resource that suits your age group. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents Encyclopedia Britannica, Pebble Go http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents (history channel videos)

Smithsonian Example History of flight: http://airandspace.si.edu/

Aviation history http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=aviation+history Book tie-in with Hallelujah Flight

by Phil Bildner

Library of Congress Connect aviation ‘firsts’ with biographies: Bessie Coleman - Fly High, a simply written biography Talkin’ About Bessie, poetic monologues told in voices of the people in Bessie’s life (great for inferencing and voice) Amelia Earhart - Amelia and Eleanor - Historical context of the time Amelia Earhart - biography

Ranching and cattle drives

http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=king+ranch

http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=cattle+drives&fa=original-format%3Aphoto%2C+print%2C+drawing

Thanksgiving Primary sources:

Library of Congress Example

• The book: Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=sarah+hale

• Teacher guides for teaching with primary sources http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/thanksgiving/

Thanksgiving

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of the Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet Biography of Tony Sarg Photo of Tony and some of his puppets http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwsfa/library_artists_sarg.htm Milly and the Macy’s Parade by Shana Corey and Brett Helquist Compare/Contrast actual history History Channel : http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving/videos/history-of-the-thanksgiving-day-parade short video http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade1.htm article You tube also has actual parade footage from current and past parades.

Characterization Lesson • Using social studies people look up a person using Britannica Online or similar

online Encyclopedia…determine the following about each person. – Name – Why they are famous – At least three adjectives to describe the person and why

ex: Benjamin Franklin is inquisitive, diplomatic, and hard working therefore he made a lot of inventions including bifocals and lightning rods.

Research; Social Studies; Biography Now read a biography of Benjamin Franklin or a funny novel like Benjamin

Franklinstein Lives! by Matthew McElligott • http://www.benjaminfranklinstein.com/book.html

• Consider: Marcel Marceau: Monsieur Marceau

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lF0XMCssG0

• Audrey Hepburn: Just Being Audrey

Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Ramsey

• Show students the authentic Green Book (show them how to search for it, too) http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Casestudy/Negro_motorist_green_bk.htm

• Brainstorm, discuss, and write emotion words. After reading the book, go back to scenes and ask which word describes feelings in that part: i.e. anxious, happy, sad, angry, scared and tell why using text evidence.

Celebrate Freedom Week

• http://www.loc.gov/teachers/constitutionday.html

• John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith

• More information in

Database:

http://www.teachingbooks.net/

Artifact Research

Read Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything by Maira Kalman

Do a KWL chart Read the book Discuss the artifacts used to describe Jefferson and what they

represented ex: books, Monticello, Map of USA with LA Purchase Look up a founding father in either encyclopedia or

Smithsonian websites and select 3 artifacts to tell about the person. The Smithsonian sites highlight the artifacts.

Research; drawing conclusions

Combine Books and Internet

• 3 series from Scholastic

• Multiple authors

• Web based video games to play off of book and characters to add dimension and attract reluctant readers

– 39 Clues http://the39clues.scholastic.com/

– Spirit Animals http://spiritanimals.scholastic.com/

- Infinity Ring http://infinityring.scholastic.com/

Using both formats in one story

Patrick Carman, author

http://www.patrickcarman.com/books/

One book series (Things That Go Bump in the

Night) is a book/web video combo

And the other(Skeleton Creek) is a book/web

video combo with one character’s story told in

the text and the other through web videos.

One story; many formats

• The original: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

• Animated You Tube video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEekO4ufwM

• Play of the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEekO4ufwM

• Change the story to tell a new tale • Book Care • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW25mqJjEF4

• Go over the differences and how many stories have different versions.

Reading for Facts

• Read Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton and take tally of ‘wins’ for each; why did each win

• Database: Gale – National Geographic Kids issue on Sharks! and Trains; create fast fact charts

• Reread Shark vs. Train Justify ‘winner’ based on facts

Do authors of fiction do research?

• Use Kids Infobits to find articles on yawning (Why Do We Yawn) or cat behavior (What’s with that Cat?) or any article that relates to a fiction text

• Create fast fact lists

• Read either book and discuss author’s reliability

Kids InfoBits: Text to self connections

• "Study finds bats help control plant pests." UPI NewsTrack 30 June 2007. Kids InfoBits. Web. 13 Oct. 2014.

• Roney, Marty. "Cool, wet summer gives spiders 8 legs up." USA Today 23 Sept. 2013: 05A. Kids InfoBits. Web. 13 Oct. 2014.

Use these articles to discuss interdependence of species. Read Sparrow Girl, including historical framework page and discuss (cause and effect in real-life context).

Barnum Bones: from high interest to word study to when to use primary sources

Barnum’s Bones

by Tracy Fern

1-Show ppt of Greek/Latin roots to name/describe dinosaurs

2- Show They Might Be Giants video

I am a Paleontogist

3- Read Barnum’s Bones

4- Show video of Barnum from American Museum of Natural History– discuss the use of primary and secondary sources when writing a biography.

Animal Adaptations

Use National Geographic Kids to read some Amazing

Animals articles. Create Fast Fact list of

unique physical characteristics. Are these adaptations?

How would you live if these were your

physical characteristics?

Write a story of a day in your life with...(walrus teeth, porcupine hair, peacock feathers, beaver teeth).

OR Create a Venn Diagram or paragraph to compare and contrast you to the animal based on the physical characteristic.

After reading these books have students select another animal. Look up the animal and then have students draw themselves with that animal’s hair and teeth. Then describe their life with that hair and teeth and how it would affect what they eat and do.

Inventors and Inventions

• Start with the book: Timeless Thomas How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives by Gene Barretta

Book shows examples of our present day life with parallel examples of what happened in his lab that lead to today’s world.

Look up other inventors and their inventions and parallel their inventions and what they lead to in our world today.

Use Encyclopedia Britannica, Gale Group, etc.

Book Trailers/Summaries

• Read two books • Watch the book trailers for the books • Have the students decide which trailer is best and why • Discuss the difference between Book Trailers and Previews and

summaries • Now decide what would need to be included in the trailer for it to

become a summary • greatoakslibrary.weebly.com/bluebonnet-book-trailers.html

– Great Oaks Elementary Library Librarian Ms. Clarissa Grindle Round Rock ISD

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Create your own book trailers