June 2015 – Page 3 – Booktalking #kidlit

I Love You Just Enough (The Hazel Ridge Farm Stories)
by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen (Author) and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (Illustrator)

Booktalk: After she gets off the bus on the last day of school, Heather discovers a wood duckling alone in the grass.

Snippet:
Hiding in a cluster of lupines was a frightened duckling.

“Now that is quite a treasure you’ve found,” Dad said. “It looks like this little guy has been separated from his family.”

“Will his family come back for him?” Heather asked.
“Or can I take him home and be his family?”

“I don’t know Heather. Taking care of a baby animal is a lot of responsibility,” Dad explained. “You have to keep him safe and wam and fed. You have to teach him how to be a duck–to swim, to hunt for bugs, and how to fly.”

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#kidlit Book of the Day: Teaching with Story: Classroom Connections to Storytelling from August House

Teaching with Story: Classroom Connections to Storytelling
by Margaret Read MacDonald (Author), Jennifer MacDonald Whitman (Author), and Nathaniel Forrest Whitman (Author)

Booktalk: An invaluable resource book for using storytelling in the classroom, this book correlates with the Common Core Standards and covers “The Seven C’s” of Storytelling: Community, Character, Communication, Curriculum, Cultural Connections, Creativity, and Confidence.

Snippet: We will use the Common Core Standards as our guide and we will highlight the direct links that storytelling has with many of the standards we are already trying to teach. If someone ever questions the fact that you are spending time telling tales, you can explain how many different standards you are addressing every time you tell a story.

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Literary Link:A new first for the Carnival of Children’s Literature–our May 2015 Carnival of Children’s Literature Roundup links to 2 #kidlit book tours!