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: Get Charged Up!
Classroom Connections: Math and the Common Core
Classroom Connections: Scientists as Children
Classroom Connections: Exploring Science with Poetry
Books and Authors: Talking with Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
Books and Authors: Talking with Nic Bishop
Classroom Connections: A Culture of Kindness [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Poetry and Social Justice [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Susan Goldman Rubin [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Meg Medina [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Tanya Lee Stone [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Westward by Wagon [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Nursery Rhymes for All Ages [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Got Grammar? [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Nonfiction Monday Meets Poetry Friday [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Audiobooks and the Common Core [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Susan Cooper [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Laura Vaccaro Seeger [PDF]
Classroom Connections: African American Trailblazers [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Exploring Japan [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Jorge Argueta [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Walter Dean Myers [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Mitali Perkins [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Phillip Hoose [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with David Macaulay [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Forces and Motion [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Connecting Science and Poetry [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Scientists at Work [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Inquiring Minds [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Melissa Sweet [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Steve Sheinkin [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Carmen T. Bernier-Grand [PDF]
Books and Authors: Talking with Kate Banks [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Elementary Economics [PDF]
Classroom Connections: Transplanted: Stories of Refugee Children [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 Mysteries [PDF]
Unpacking a Standard: With Biographies [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.
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
Stubby the War Dog by Ann Bausum
Firefly July selected by Paul B. Janeczko
Handle with Care by Loree Griffin Burns
Babe Conquers the World by Rich and Sandra Neil Wallce
George Washington's Rules to Live By by K. M. Kostyal
The Animal Book by Steve Jenkins
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss
What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman
Fourth Down and Inches by Carla Killough McClafferty
Give Me a 001
"The President Has Been Shot!" by James L. Swanson
When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill
Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller
Maps By Mizielinska...and Musings
Digger Dozer Dumper by Hope Vestergaard
Things That Float and Things That Don't by David A. Adler
Boxers & Saints by Gene Yuen Lang
Frogs Everywhere
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
One + One = Two New Math Picture Books
Imprisoned by Martin W. Sandler
Eruption! By Elizabeth Rusch
Full Count: Top 10 Lists of Everything in Baseball
Batter Up!
Diego Rivera by Susan Goldmab Rubin
Celebrating Curiosity
Henry Knox, A Boston Hero
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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