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    May 15, 2013              BOOKLIST

Spotlight on    SF/Fantasy
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Story behind the Story:    Samantha Shannon's The    Bone Season
Carte Blanche: Suspending    the Old Disbelief
Another Look At: William    Sleator's Singularity
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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

Book Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms

 

 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]

Unpacking a Standard

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 Webinars

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

Bookends

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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