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The Read-Aloud Scaffold: Best Books to Enhance Content Area Curriculum, Grades Pre-K–3
This compendium of outstanding read-aloud choices for grades pre-K–3 will enrich and extend content area instruction, helping busy teachers to meet curriculum requirements within the confines of their busy schedules.
It's a familiar and unfortunate educators everywhere are being asked to do more teaching with less―less money, less staff, and less time. One easy way to provide more content area instruction to very young readers is by scaffolding beneficial learning subjects within memorable read-aloud activities. This augments the instructional curriculum and keeps learning fun―without adding to the educator's already-full plate.
Read-Aloud Best Books to Enhance Content Area Curriculum, Grades Pre-K–3 offers teachers and librarians over 700 content area connections through carefully selected, recently published children's trade books. These selections include fiction and non-fiction titles that represent outstanding read-aloud choices that will augment the instructional curriculum, covering subjects ranging from history to holidays to special events, and from biographies and memoirs to poetry and character education. "A Closer Look" suggests outstanding read-aloud choices related to key units in the curriculum and features discussion points, cross-curricular activities, writing prompts, and related online and print materials.
It's a familiar and unfortunate educators everywhere are being asked to do more teaching with less―less money, less staff, and less time. One easy way to provide more content area instruction to very young readers is by scaffolding beneficial learning subjects within memorable read-aloud activities. This augments the instructional curriculum and keeps learning fun―without adding to the educator's already-full plate.
Read-Aloud Best Books to Enhance Content Area Curriculum, Grades Pre-K–3 offers teachers and librarians over 700 content area connections through carefully selected, recently published children's trade books. These selections include fiction and non-fiction titles that represent outstanding read-aloud choices that will augment the instructional curriculum, covering subjects ranging from history to holidays to special events, and from biographies and memoirs to poetry and character education. "A Closer Look" suggests outstanding read-aloud choices related to key units in the curriculum and features discussion points, cross-curricular activities, writing prompts, and related online and print materials.
196 pages, Paperback
First published August 28, 2011
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About the author
Judy Bradbury
19 books3 followersJudy Bradbury is the author of several children’s books as well as professional resources for educators and parents. Her debut chapter book series, The Cayuga Island Kids, launched in March 2021 with the release of the first title, The Mystery of the Barking Branches and the Sunken Ship. Book 2, The Adventure of the Big Fish by the Small Creek releases in Fall 2021, with the third book, The Case of the Messy Message and the Missing Facts following in Spring 2022.
A literacy specialist who has taught students from preschool through college, Judy’s monthly column for LibrarySparks inspired the creation of the popular Children’s Book Corner blog (www.judybradbury.com/blog) where Judy interviews authors and illustrators and offers suggestions for using their books to connect social-emotional learning (SEL) to curriculum in Grades Pre-K—8.
Judy welcomes the opportunity to visit schools to share her books and conducts writing workshops for students across the nation. She also presents at conferences and leads professional development nationwide on topics related to English Language Arts and connecting kids and curriculum to great books.
Learn more about Judy and her books and find activities for the Cayuga Island Kids series at www.judybradbury.com. Connect with Judy: IG: Judy_Bradbury; Twitter: @JudyBWrites
A literacy specialist who has taught students from preschool through college, Judy’s monthly column for LibrarySparks inspired the creation of the popular Children’s Book Corner blog (www.judybradbury.com/blog) where Judy interviews authors and illustrators and offers suggestions for using their books to connect social-emotional learning (SEL) to curriculum in Grades Pre-K—8.
Judy welcomes the opportunity to visit schools to share her books and conducts writing workshops for students across the nation. She also presents at conferences and leads professional development nationwide on topics related to English Language Arts and connecting kids and curriculum to great books.
Learn more about Judy and her books and find activities for the Cayuga Island Kids series at www.judybradbury.com. Connect with Judy: IG: Judy_Bradbury; Twitter: @JudyBWrites
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