The Itchy Book! By Levyen Pham and Mo Willems is a fun fantasy sci-fi picture book that is promoted by Mo Willems‘ Elephant and Piggie like reading! This book would be fun to read aloud or even to do readers theater. https://sites.google.com/view/lae3414/readers-theater You can follow along with the dinosaurs to see how itchy they can get! This book lines up with the UDL strategy 3.2 because it does have a repetitive nature of saying

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly illustrated by Pam Adams is a traditional literature picture book that would be perfect for a story telling! Above is my visuals used for when I did a story telling https://sunflowerstorytime.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/there-was-an-old-lady1.pd... This story telling activity would work well with the ESOL strategy 17 of using audio visuals, models, body language, and demonstrations.

Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal by Barbara Park is a modern fantasy novel. This book is perfect for young readers. This book is the 10th book in the series and it entails Junie‘s experience of going to Lucille‘s richie nanna‘s House for a sleep over! This book would be good as a read aloud. My teacher would read us these books whenever we had some time in class and we always enjoyed them! An activity is to help Junie pack her bag just like in

Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses written by Kimberly and James Dean and illustrated by James Dean is a fantasy picture book. Pete is having a bad day until he gets to wear magic sunglasses. This book goes on to leave the lesson that you should look out and see the good in everyday. This books would be good in either a read aloud or an author study!

Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete is a fantasy picture book written and illustrated by James Dean. Pete the Cat are such a fun series of books that teach kids how to be nice to each other and to not stress out about a lot of things. In this book Pete has a picnic with all of his dinosaur friends. This book would be a great fit for any classroom library and would be good for a Read Aloud. This book would be great with a lesson that teaches about dinosaurs

SkippyjonJones Cirque de Olé written and illustrated by Judy Schachner is one of the many books in the series! It‘s is fantasy picture book that is a New York Times Best Selling Series. This book goes in to another one of Skippy‘s many fantasies this time he is in a circus! These books are such a fun read that even my boyfriend gets a kick out of them!! This book lines up perfectly with the ESOL strategy 24 because there is Spanish in the book!

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dewalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers is a E. b. White Read Aloud Award wining modern fantasy picture book. All of Duncan‘s crayons go on strike leaving him hilarious notes for their reasoning. This book is well suited for many different grade levels from kindergarten with learning colors to high school learning about unions and what strikes are.

I Got Two Dogs by John Lithgow and illustrated by Robert Neubecker is a poetry biography picture book about John Lithgow‘s two dogs Fanny and Blue. The book is about the tail (haha get it) of two dogs and all the stuff they get into and how much he loves them both! This book would be fun to do literacy centers with it for learning poetry! https://www.kindergartenworks.com/common-core-standards/po-et-tree/

Do Unto Otters: A book About Manners by Laurie Keller is a fantasy Bank Street Best Children‘s Book of the Year picture book. This book would be excellent in any classroom library even in the secondary levels! This book goes and talk about different mannerisms and how to treat people which anyone at any age might need some help with especially younger kids and older ones might need some reminding 😉

Once I picked up this book it was hard for me to put down! This book would be great for anyone‘s classroom library! The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate is a Newbery Award winning biography fiction novel. I‘d say this book is a biography because Ivan is a real gorilla and it is his story along with it being fiction because he can‘t talk. This book would be perfect to use during LC.

Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein is a modern fantasy picture book. A boy is selling his rhinoceros and is telling us about all the wonderful things they can do to help out around the house. I thought this book was okay, but I do think it would be good for a RA because students might laugh at all the silly things the rhino can do.

What Was the March on Washington by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by Tim Tomkinson is a nonfiction chapter book that would be perfect for GR or even LC. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/what-was-the-march-on-washington-by-ka... By having questions for the students to answer while they read is so important to always set a purpose for reading. Having the “what was” and “who was” books in your classroom library

The Umbrella is New York Times Children‘s Picture Book Bestseller List winner. It‘s a low fantasy picture book. Carlos goes into the cloud forest to go see the many different animals and leaves behind his umbrella as he climbs a tree. The animals jump in and go on an adventure. I think this book would be great addition to your classroom library. I would use this book as either a DR or a RT.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a SF novel and ALA Best Book for Young Adults winner. This book is about a boy named Connor and how he must deal with the fact that his parents are sending him to be unwound. The setting is in the future after a civil war where children can be sent to “harvesting camps” where their organs are donated and they will live on forever through their donated organs.

Skippyjon Jones is a E. B. White Read Aloud award winning book written and illustrated by Judy Schachner. I would consider this book to be both P and F because of SkippyJon Jones the talking Siamese cat along with the words all rhyming together and the book having such a fun rhythm to it. I think this book would be perfect for RA. I didn‘t know it had a lot of Spanish in it so it would be perfect with Spanish ESOL students.

The Rough-Face Girl written by Rafe Martin and illustrated by David Shannon is a TL American Bookseller Pick of the List Book. It is a Cinderella type story of a girl who was seen as ugly and dirty becomes a princess because of the beauty she had on the inside. This picture book would be best used as either S or RT. This book also has excellent vocabulary and teaches about Algonquin culture!

A House for Hermit Crab written and illustrated by Eric Carle is a F picture book. I think it would be really fun to use this book for an RT so that the students can all be the different sea creatures that the hermit crab meets along the way while trying to decorate his new home! https://amyramell.wikispaces.com/Readers+Theater Using the UDL principle 2.5 would be perfect for this book especially if using RT!

Creep Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown is an Caldecott Honor Award winning F book that would be great in any classroom library! This book is about Jasper Rabbit‘s encounter with some creepy carrots that seem to be following him around. This book would be excellent to be RA especially around Halloween! If you are also doing an author of the month (AS) you could have students create their own creepy carrots to post around

Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López is a B, International Latino Book Award winner. It would make an excellent addition to any classroom library. The theme of this book is to find something beautiful in everything you see. Mira finds the beautiful in her neighborhood and paints beautiful murals with the help of her neighbors. This book would be best used as a RA.

Just starting to read Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. I love that it‘s shown in different character perspectives!! This novel is a RF Newberry medalist novel. This book goes on to tell the story of Virgil who is trying to figure out if fate is real and how he will make new friends because of it. This book would be best used in LC, allowing students to take on different roles in the LC.