Common Core State Standards: Printable Resources from Booklist Publications
Welcome to Booklist Publications’ home for Common Core State Standards resources. Below you’ll find links to Common Core–related material from Booklist and Book Links magazines, Quick Tips e-newsletter, and Booklist Online, including our Bookends blog. A new educational initiative brings enormous challenges for everyone, especially the teachers and librarians charged with summoning the energy and creativity required to implement the changes. We hope our coverage, including suggestions for linking individual titles with specific standards, will help educators address these new directives while extending our mission: to get the best books for children into the classroom and into the hands of students. As always, your feedback is essential. How can we better support you? Let us know.
Gillian Engberg, Editorial Director, Books for Youth, Booklist Publications gengberg@ala.org
The following articles with Common Core Connections originally appeared in Book Links magazine. View each as a page on Booklist Online or download the reproducible PDF.
Classroom Connections: Caldecott Medal Winners as Mentor Texts [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Graphic Novels for Beginning Readers [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Gerald Morris [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Let's Read Short Shorts [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Take Five for Poetry [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Multiracial Characters [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Outsider Artists [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Caldecott in the Classroom: Multicultural Tales [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Jan Greenberg [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Caldecott in the Classroom: The Art of Picture Books [PDF]
Classroom Connections: The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Caldecott in Black and White [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Caldecott in the Classroom: Caldecott Biographies [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Exploring Ancient China [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Informational Texts and the Common Core [PDF]
Classroom Connection: Whoo’s Up at Night [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Busy Bees [PDF]
Classroom Connection: Talking Trash [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Taking Flight [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Rand Burkert and Nancy Ekholm Burkert [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Preparing Preschoolers for the Common Core [PDF]
In this regular column, published in Booklist and reprinted in Quick Tips, Common Core expert Julie Green suggests book-based activities for implementing a single standard through the grade levels. View each as a page on Booklist Online or download the reproducible PDF.
Unpacking a Standard: With Black History Resources [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Connecting Science and the Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Series Nonfiction and the Common Core [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Back to School with CCSS [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Exploring Diversity with the Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Series Nonfiction and the Common Core [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Connecting with Classics [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Standout Science Titles and the Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Summer Reading and the Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Poetry and the Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Folktales, Fairy Tales, and the Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: Explore Black History Month with Common Core State Standards [PDF]
Booklist will continue to cover the CCSS with free webinars that add opportunities to hear educators, publishers, and other experts weigh in on the challenges of implementing the standards and offer practical tips for implementing them with new books for youth. Free archives of recent Common Core–related webinars are available on the Booklist webinar page, along with registration links for upcoming programs.
Archived presentations:
Open the Door to the Common Core
Unpacking the Common Core
New Resources for the Common Core
New Common Core Connections
Common Core & More: Surprising Reasons to Go Graphic
Common Core State Standards: Getting Ready for K–8 Research
Common Core Opportunities for Librarians: Strategies for Leading the Way
Lynn Rutan and Cindy Dobrez, middle-school librarians and longtime Booklist contributors, offer terrific titles for Common Core connections.
Look Up! by Annette LeBlanc Cate
The Price of Freedom by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis B. Fradin
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone
Queen of the Track by Heather Lang
Noah Webster His Words, by Jeri Chase Ferris
Eye On The Wild Series
The Second Life of Abigail Walker, by Frances Oroark Dowell
City Chickens, by Christine Hepperman
Jump! by Scott M. Fischer
The Skull in the Rock, by Lee R. Berger & Marc Aronson
Mousterpiece, by Jane Breskin Zalben
Lost and Found, by Bill Harley
Beyond Courage, by Doreen Rappaport
Rudolph in the Dark
A Fleet of New Science Fiction
The Giant and How He Humbugged America, by Jim Murphy
Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs, by J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen
The Amazing Harry Kellar, by Gail Jarrow
Dogs on Duty, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur, by Judy Sierra
Scientific Rivalries and Scandals
Keeping the Castle, by Patrice Kindl
The Tooth Mouse, by Susan Hood
Monsieur Marceau, by Leda Schubert
The Mighty Mars Rovers, by Elizabeth Rusch
Moonbird, by Phillip Hoose
Ocean Sunlight, by Molly Bang
Making Those Common Core Connections
Bomb, by Steve Sheinkin
Invincible Microbe, by Jim Murphy
Temple Grandin, by Sy Montgomery
Bird Talk, by Lita Judge
Two Delicious Books about Julia Child
Master of Deceit, by Marc Aronson
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda, by Alicia Potter
Water Sings Blue, by Kate Coombs
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
Seeing Symmetry, by Loreen Leedy
Invincible Microbe, by Jim Murphy
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