Bücher von Sharron L. McElmeel

Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations! Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations-including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment.getting the books, resource booklets, and videos.helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas).and holding "proxy visits", events celebrating author/illustrator works, "Read-ins," or visits by e-mail. A number of reproducible forms help make any event flow smoothly-also aided by all the updated contact and related information in the resource section.. Expanded with more ideas, guides, and updated resource information, including websites and new books . Gives many examples of curriculum-related activities and ways to use the event to promote literacy. Presents alternatives to on-site visits, author-focused celebrations, and virtual visits. Promote enhanced literacy through an exciting celebration of books and the authors and illustrators who create them! You'll build a love of reading, show connections between books (developing higher order thinking skills), and promote reading comprehension as young readers grow in authentic response to their reading.

Library media specialists, classroom teachers,and other educators who work with preschool through intermediate students will find this explanatory guide immensely helpful in making thematic connections to curriculum objectives that are well-supported by literature. In the frameworks, common elementary school topics-from Apples to Zoos-are used as building blocks for classroom workshop activities. Combine the blocks to support any theme or curricular unit. You can also select activities within each topic to integrate selected books and activities into the existing curriculum, such as focusing on Johnny Appleseed in the "A is for Apples" unit. The framework for each reading unit suggests resources and literature-related materials to match the curriculum, and gives ideas for integrating the resources into a particular theme. All of the frameworks are easily adapted to your students' interest level and learning goals.. Alphabetical listing of 26 imaginative subjects that relate to common interests in grades PreK-6. Newly revised with a wealth of additions, including websites, activities, and new books. 64 reproducible graphic organizers to assist with learning activities

Categories include: bulletin boards, curriculum connections, promoting reading, teaching library skills, managing the library, public relations, using technology in the classroom, and "technology talk" (a section focusing on the "management" of technology more than its use of instruction).

Bring favorite authors and children together in your classroom with these three acclaimed books. Each book includes biographical information, a photo page, booklists, and numerous activities designed to build reading skills by stimulating reading fun.

Students can learn more about their favorite authors and find plenty of reading materials they'll enjoy with this affordable biographical work and ready-reference.

From Mendel to Normandy: Curriculum and Connections-for 'Tweens and Teens is an invaluable resource with many suggestions and with space for recording connecting ideas and strategies to infuse literacy into every area of the curriculum-in classrooms and libraries-with older readers.

Focuses on 50 popular children's authors, including Berthe Amoss, Betsy Byars, Jean Fritz, Johanna Hurwitz, and others, with recipes contributed by the authors or based on their books. This book also helps you learn some fascinating facts about each author - and read the stories behind the recipes.

Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others.

Fascinating profiles of 100 of the most beloved and celebrated picture book authors and illustrators are accompanied by photos, reading lists, and lists of related information sources (such as Web pages).

Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials. Activities that reinforce the multicultural theme and bibliographies of related books and films are also featured.

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom. After introductory discussions of each genre, McElmeel recommends books, gives lists of related titles, and provides a variety of ideas for genre-related activities that complement classroom thematic units.

Each of the 17 chapters focuses on a specific trait or virtue and identifies dozens of picture books, novels, biographies, and nonfiction titles that illustrate the trait and can be used as springboards to discussions.