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I Am Enough | Grace Byers

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I recently purchased this book for my friend‘s new born baby girl💕 A New York Bestseller picture book about loving who you are, reaching your best potential, and being respectful and kind to others. Great for storytelling and RA‘s .Perfect for UDL guideline (9.3) self assessment and reflection. #ucflae3414sp20

LizzettM This book looks so inspiring! I must read❤️ 5y

Ashley_B I love the cover photo! Looks like a good read. 5y

ValeriaCastaneda23 I haven‘t heard about this book but your post makes me want to put this in my amazon cart!!!! 5y

DrSpalding The front cover of this book is so enticing. What a great idea to purchase it as a baby gift. Make sure you use the rubric and include website resources that align to your universal design principles and English learner strategies. 5y

RaivionneC Check out this link to look at activities that go along perfectly for teaching self-motivation and emotional development for young readers https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/i-am-enough 5y

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Chrysanthemum | Kevin Henkes

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This fiction picture book meant a lot to me when I first learned how to write my name. I was always the last to finish my name in Kindergarten and felt so bad about it often that my name wasn‘t like others. My kindergarten teacher Ms. Powell read this one day to me in our reading center and I loved it ever since💕 It‘s about a little mouse who too has a long name and learns to love it it‘s uniquess

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HappyMaddy I love this story! Great tribute to a classic❤️ 5y

RaivionneC UDL Guideline Optimize individual choice and autonomy (7.1) 5y

DrSpalding What kind of fiction? Your universal design principle works perfectly! 5y

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Holes (Anniversary) | Louis Sachar

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A Young Adults Action Adventure Fiction story about an unlucky teenager named Stanley who‘s sent to a boys camp to what seems to be the middle of no where in Texas after being falsely accused of a theft crime. Young adults can enjoy this Newberry Award winning book for IR or RA‘s after class sessions. #ucflae3414sp20

McKaylaH Loved reading this book! Perfect for a RA or IR. Great job ! 5y

DrSpalding You are still missing key aspects of the rubric. You are making excellent book selections however. This is a classic. This could be used as a literature circle option as well. 5y

RaivionneC @DrSpalding I found the author‘s web is it‘s as a good resource to check out the behind the scenes of making this story and a link to a minute book report on Holes. http://www.louissachar.com/holes.html 5y

DrSpalding Good one! 5y

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Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans

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One of my favorite Poetry Fiction book series growing up (made into a show on NickJr.)Madeline is a rhyming story of a Parisian little girl living in a Catholic orphanage with 12 other girls. Great for RA‘s and SA‘s. and can be used for UDL guideline optimization of relevance, value, and authenticity(7.2) For ESOL students I can share the video story read alouds and episodes. #ucflae3414sp20

DrSpalding What kind of fiction? Think of the time frame and reply with the correct genre. These books are excellent books to incorporate into the primary classroom as some students will have prior knowledge. They also expose students to another culture and location in Europe. 5y

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Mo Willems

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My Pre Schoolers la la love this Caldecott Medal award winning Fiction book! It is humorous and engages the little ones during storytelling with the plot: a bus driver has to leave but doesn‘t have anyone to watch his bus so he reminds the audience - “Don‘t let the Pigeon drive the bus!”
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RaivionneC This book is great for UDL guideline increasing mastery-oriented feedback (8.4) and ESOL strategy of acting out the story by modeling the actions. 5y

HappyMaddy This book is a class, great idea to act out the story. A readers theater would be fun! 5y

Brennap Oooh this looks so perfect for the younger ones, I bet they would love to read along with it! 5y

DrSpalding You need to consult your genre flip guide. There are several different kinds of fiction that you need to know! I agree with Maddie that a readers theater could be fun and dramatic reenactment is a great idea as well. Make sure you clearly identify the teaching strategies you want to employ. 5y

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Amazing Grace | Mary Hoffman

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This years RAA we read about a little girl named Grace who is told she couldn‘t play Peter Pan in the school play because she is a black girl. Well guess who played lead role and did amazing? This children‘s RF book is great for storytelling and teaching students they can do anything they set their minds to. Check out https://bealearninghero.org/book/amazing-grace/ for extension activities. #ucflae3414sp20

Brennap Yes I love it! A great book! 5y

victoriamaria Ohh! I forgot about adding this book to my litsy posts 5y

victoriamaria You did a fabulous job reading that day 5y

DrSpalding I love this image! You are very skilled at reading aloud to a large group of children. I am so happy I got to see you in action. You added the correct genre and a helpful website resource! (edited) 5y

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Hair Love | Vashti Harrison, Matthew A. Cherry

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I‘m not crying- you‘re crying!! Oh my goodness this Oscar Award winning short film turned RF story book is story perfect for S. In this story Zuri and her Daddy work together in loving her hair. This book is purposeful in self regulation for students in UDL guidelines of optimizing motivation, using personal coping skills, and developing self assessment and reflection (9.1-9.3) #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC https://socialjusticebooks.org/hair-love-3/ This link goes to share on more things found behind this book and promoting multiculturalism. This story is also great for ESOL students to share how they can learn to love their uniqueness and positive thinking. (edited) 5y

Ryan_R I love this book!!! I‘m absolutely obsessed ever since I saw the short film. What a great book! 5y

HappyMaddy I need need to buy this asap! Love how it promotes multiculturalism through windows & mirrors. 5y

DrSpalding Fantastic website resource! Much better detail regarding how you would use this book in your future classroom. 5y

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Wonder. R.J. Palacio | R J Palacio

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An RF book about a witty, kind, and extraordinary 5th grade boy who may look a little different, but is courageous as he steps into his first year of middle school life. Get your upper elementary students discussing the importance of being kind, not bullying, and family in RA‘s or IR with Auggie Pullman.
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RaivionneC This book is perfectly aligned with fostering collaboration and community(8.3) and ESOL strategies of promoting cooperation and encouraging positive thinking and self talk. ( 1 and 2). Here is a link for great activities https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/wonder 5y

Keishla.O I read this book and loved it so much! Great resource to provide activities! I gave my copy of the book to my younger cousin to start reading so I can use the activities in your link with her too! 5y

MaddyJ I absolutely loved this book! I like the resource you provided. 5y

DrSpalding Reading is fundamental is an excellent resource. This book also has its own website! Your English learner strategy and universal design principle fit perfectly with this book and the teaching strategy of literature circles or as you noted, read aloud or IR. (edited) 5y

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Copper Sun | Sharon M. Draper

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This Young Adult Historical Fiction Coretta Scott King Award winning book is about a young slave girl‘s story of taken from her village in Africa sold into slavery and her new life in the Americas. Despite her hardships of being stripped of humanity it seems, she still keeps hope in her heart and finds herself. Great for older students for IR and SR.
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RaivionneC The book you is a great resource for discussion based questions at the back of the book but this link is also helpful in Young Adult activities, discussions, and other resources to include on this time period in History. https://worksheets.edhelper.com/books/Copper_Sun.htm 5y

RaivionneC For Young Adults UDL guidelines highlighting patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships (3.2) and facilitate managing information and resources (6.3). 5y

DrSpalding As you noted, young adult is the appropriate audience for many of Draper‘s books! Stella by Starlight and Blended along with Out of My Mind are her elementary appropriate novels. 5y

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Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo

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This Fantasy and Newberry Award Winning book is one of my childhood favorites💕 I loved it as an IR but it could be just as great read aloud to students. Despereaux is an adventurous little mouse set out to rescue a princess from Rats in a kingdom where rodents are forbidden from even mentioning. #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC This book aligns could with UDL guidelines of guiding information processing and visualization.(3.4) and as an ESOL strategy could be used for guided reading and a translated text. Check out this link to look at the various cool extension activities https://www.aswewalkalongtheroad.com/2017/01/literature- (edited) 5y

Keishla.O OMG, what a throwback!!! I read this book in school and totally forgot it existed! Wow, thank you for the reminder. I loved reading this book and will definitely have to buy it for my personal library. 5y

MaddyJ Kate DiCamillo strikes again!! I love all of her books. This is one I haven‘t read in a long time but it‘s going on my list to read now! 5y

DrSpalding What, of the very cool extension activities, would you use in your future classroom? This book is a challenging one! It is written in for parts as you know and requires the educator to assist students in comprehension strategies. 5y

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Stargazing | Jen Wang

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This Graphic Novel is a Juvenile Fiction coming of age story about two Chinese American girls who although live in similar worlds of Suburbs are quite opposite but become best friends. Moon, is a girl who shares a very strange secret with Christine: she has visions and can sometimes talk to celestial beings. It is also a man Asian/Pacif American Award Winner. #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC For Middle School students this book aligns with the UDL guideline of optimizing individual choice and autonomy(7.1). For ESOL students I would provide the translated versions of the book. https://www.newsarama.com/46811-jen-wang-takes-us-on-a-personal-story-of-stargaz... students can read on more about this graphic novel with this site. (edited) 5y

ShardaeP I have heard of this book. I definitely want to read it! 5y

DrSpalding You are one of the only posts to highlight the Asian Pacific award! Graphic novels are becoming very popular. Helpful resource and appropriate universal design and English learner strategies. 5y

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I Used to Be a Fish | Tom Sullivan

“I Used to Be A Fish” is children‘s Fiction picture book about a little boy who imagines his pet fish telling him the story of the Evolution of Man.Implementing this book into your future classroom could satisfy UDL guidelines of activating and supplying background knowledge and guiding information processing and visualization (3.3 and 4.3) #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC Here‘s a wonderful site perfect for an author study behind this book. An interview with the Author and why teaching Evolution classroom a is beneficial. https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=tom-sullivan-on-i-used-to-be-a-fish 5y

RaivionneC For ELL students I could use the ESOL strategy of using direct instruction or a shared reading of modeling and scaffolding to make sure they understand the concept of Evolution in the story and have students prepare collections of science objects. (edited) 5y

DrSpalding What a cute image. Looks like a great book to share with students. I am not as familiar with this author however an author study could work well with the resource provided. 5y

DrSpalding What kind of fiction? 5y

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The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt

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This Low Fantasy Fiction book is about some very animated and frustrated crayons collectively voicing their concerns through letters of protest to their owner Duncan. I‘d mix this up by having students take turns in a choral shared reading activity with my future students to fit UDL guideline fostering collaboration and community (8.3). #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC Promoting small group coooperation and providing this book in the Spanish translated version would work great for ESOL students in my further classroom. 5y

RaivionneC This book is also a Goodreads Choice Awards Best Picture Book award recipient. https://youtu.be/Hrd-Wdxbg-Q 5y

DrSpalding Another fabulous image! I like the idea of having the Spanish version for Spanish-speaking students in your classroom. Just an idea: you read a page in English and have a Spanish-speaking student read a page in Spanish. Add some of the Spanish color words to your word wall! Bilingual word walls are helpful. 5y

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons | Eric Litwin

Pete the Cat books are funky Fictional stories about a cool little cat and his day to day adventures at home and school. These books can be used for S, RA‘s, and CR‘s. A UDL guideline to consider to align with these books are little ones can highlight patterns, critical features,big ideas, and relationships. (3.1) #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC Check out the Pete The Cat website for videos of read alouds, activities, worksheets and much more. http://www.petethecatbooks.com/ 5y

RaivionneC For ELL students these books are great for providing contextual support through audio visuals, models, demonstrations, realia, body language and facial expressions. 5y

DrSpalding This is an excellent resource! There are so many activities that coincide with this series of books about this positive blue cat! Cute image. 5y

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Bill Martin, Jr.

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Babysitting with this spunky, fun rhyming book has its perks! Chicks Chicka Boom is a MF picture that keeps little ones entertained and dancing! It practices UDL principles of offering alternatives for auditory and visual information (1.2-1.3) and could be used for shared reading or read alouds. #ucflae3414sp20

RaivionneC Here‘s the video to the books music video to use and get your little ones up and grooving while learning about their ABC‘s. https://youtu.be/BPWk3SjKRAs (edited) 5y

hadassajl Love the little one! I remember reading this book as a kid and how much fun it was and I‘m glad you captured that with your resources. Lovely post! 5y

DrSpalding What a cutie! I think you must have enjoyed Ryan‘s storytelling last week! This is an excellent book to enhance alphabetic principle. Fun resource attached. 5y

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Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival

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An adorable and reassuring story about a little girl Ruby who has a worry that just won‘t leave her alone. This book would be such a good idea as an RA to teach young children what to do when you have a worry and encourages students to talk about their feelings.
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RaivionneC This book aligns very well with UDL guidelines of facilitating personal coping skills, and strategies and develop self-assessment and reflection (9.2-9.3) 5y

RaivionneC This a link that pairs perfectly for teachers who need help and tips and activities on how this book can promote social, personal, and emotional development in their classrooms. https://clpe.org.uk/sites/default/files/Ruby%27s%20Worry%20by%20Tom%20Percival%2... (edited) 5y

RaivionneC An ESOL strategy aligning with this book would be encouraging self-talk and teaching questioning for clarification. (edited) 5y

DrSpalding A couple of students read this book! I previously added it to my stack. Your universal design principles work well with the theme of this text. 5y

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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpr� | Anika Aldamuy Denise

Babysitting your nephew- is also a great time for Read Alouds! This picture book biography beautifully illustrates the life of Pura Belpré, Puerto Rico‘s first Librarian and is a honorable 2019 Pura Belpre Award Recipient. #UCFLAE3414SPC20

RaivionneC As a future educator I can use this book in my classroom to promote understanding across languages and to promote expectations as beliefs that optimize motivation(UDL Guidelines 2.4 and 9.1) 5y

RaivionneC “Planting Stories” is also amazing for ELL or ESOL students because the story is published and printed in both English and Spanish. This book is great for the EL Strategies 24 and 25 of incorporating the culture, language, and the second languages‘ learners acquisition in your curriculum. 5y

RaivionneC https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062748683/planting-stories-the-life-of-librari... a pretty cool link I found with lesson plans and other themes this book teachers could utilize in their classrooms. 5y

DrSpalding Using the publisher site is Wise. I love that you practiced your read aloud skills with extended family! Keep doing this. This is a beautiful biography about an important literacy champion. 5y

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Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis

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This HF story is both a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award book and would be perfect for SR or IR in 5th grade classrooms. A story of an 11 year old boy, who‘s the first free born child in a Canadian settlement facing bravery, adventure, and heroism. #UCFLAE3414SP20

RaivionneC An HF book like this one fits UDL principle 3.2 in highlighting patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships and ESOL #44 focus on thinking skills, predict, categorize, classify, observe and report. 5y

Ashley_B This book sounds like a good read! Your UDL principle aligns really well with it also. 5y

Kyleigh_J Your review of this book is great, you truly make me want to read it! Great short summary. 5y

DrSpalding Christopher Paul Curtis is an excellent author. I have read several of his books and believe they could be excellent additions to your intermediate classrooms. Literature circles, read alouds and or an author study would work. 5y

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Martin's big words: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr | Doreen Rappaport

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In Honor of Black History Month “Martin‘s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “ by Doreen Rappaport illustrated by Bryan Collier. Beautiful pictures and a message of peace over violence this children‘s Biography and Caldecott Medal Winner is great for RA‘s. Also be sure to check out Doreen Rappaport‘s website to get a great expert in learning behind the scenes in making this book at http://doreenrappaport.com/martins-big-words/

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RaivionneC This book displays UDL standard 3.3 Guide information processing and visualization. I will definitely be using this literally piece in my future classroom😊 (edited) 5y

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DrSpalding Beautiful image! I am happy to hear you will use this literary picture book biography in your future classroom. This book works nicely in social studies instruction. We are required to teach about historically significant individuals and he is certainly one of them! 5y

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Wishtree (adult edition) | Katherine Applegate

This children‘s Fiction book is an amazing read that embodies the UDL guideline of highlighting patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships. Enjoyed the narration of the kind, humorous, and wise Red beachside this weekend. 😌👌🏾🌳💕🌊 #UCFLAE3414SPC

DrSpalding Use the rubric and include all of the required information. This is a beautiful book. 5y

Brennap That sounds like a great time by the beach. I would love to look into reading this! 5y

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