This amazing fantasy novel by Kelly Barnhill is the winner of the John Newberry medal and is a New York Times best seller! It is a story about a witch who raises a baby that accidentally drank moonlight! She raises Luna and has to help her control her powers quickly! It has a lot of great characters including a tiny dragon. I think this book would be a great LC book and would be interesting to any student.

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is a RF book and a Caldecott Medal Winner. It is a book about a little boy waking up to snow in his neighborhood and exploring. He packs some snow in his pocket to use the next day but wakes up to find it gone! Luckily it had snowed even more that night. Sweet book and I love the illustrations! Good for young readers.

This RF book is probably one of my favs so far! It‘s a winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and is a cute story about two boys who are pen pals, one in India and one in the United States. They tell each other everything about their life and their world and how they are sort of the same, but different! Great story and I think it would be cool to do pen pals with our students!

This historical fiction by Gwendolyn Hooks comes with many others in the series by different authors. It goes through what life was like for young African American children during the civil rights movement. I like this book because it has vocabulary about the topic hilighted throughout the book as well as small boxes with facts about different objects or something the book talked about throughout the story. Very good pick for history instruction!

This NF book by Patricia Lauber is an informational text about the formation Mount St. Helens through many years of eruptions and how it came to be active again in the 1980s. This book integrates reading and science and is a John Newberry medal winner! It provides many great photos and informational charts to go along with the lesson. This would be a great lesson for kids to create their own volcano!

“Before She Was Harriet” is a great biography about the life of Harriet Tubman and the many paths she took in her lifetime toward ending slavery. It was the winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Young Listeners. This link has a read aloud from the author herself as well as some information on the book! https://www.kidlit.tv/2018/02/read-loud-harriet/ This book can be used in a lesson about slavery.

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom is a touching book based on the real life fight of Indigenous groups against the Dakota Access Pipeline and other threats to their water. It is the 2021 Caldecott award winner which inspired me to read it. It has gorgeous illustrations. https://youtu.be/jqWTouyaQ-8 I listened to this read aloud and it shows all of the gorgeous pictures.

This traditional literature book by James Marshall is a classic. It is a winner of the Caldecott Honor Award! It‘s the classic story of Goldilocks and in this story she‘s known as a bad little girl who doesn‘t follow rules! It‘a a timeless story everyone will love. https://www.kidssoup.com/activity/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears-activities-craf... This link has an activity to make bear and gold hair headbands!

This funny science fiction book, Aliens for Breakfast by Stephanie Spinner, is a winner of the young readers choice award. It is a funny book about a boy named Richard who finds an alien named Aric in his cereal! The story is about Aric and Richard saving the world. This is a link to An activity on making your own alien! http://www.shoeboxbookclub.com/2018/01/aliens-for-breakfast/

This book is a collection of poetry written by Shel Silverstein. (I did my author study on him) I love his writing style as well as his silly illustrations so this one was definitely fun for me to read through. It won the Booklist Editors award in 1996. This read aloud goes through the first part of the poems in the book and reads clearly. https://youtu.be/dy2MsP-aclw UDL principle- 1.1 offer ways of customizing the display of information.

This RF book “David Jumps In” by Alan Woo and Katty Maurey is about the first day of school! It can help raise confidence levels of our students and the overall message is that you should just “jump right in” in life! #UCFLAE2414SP21 https://www.getepic.com/book/80841917/david-jumps-in this site has a read aloud as well as other book information. It would also be cool to teach the students the game “elastic skip” from the book!

This RF book was so sweet and sad, it talks about loss in a positive light and I loved it. Great character diversity in this book! #UCFLAE3414SP21 The link is the authors site with pictures of her real murals to show the class! https://www.katieyamasaki.com This would be ESOL strategy 17- provide contextual support through audio visuals, models, demonstrations, realia, body language and facial expressions

This MF (animal fantasy) book is so cute and I thought it was kind of funny! It‘s a Caldecott Award winner. I think it is great to teach kids about honesty! #UCFLAE3414SP21 I think a great activity would be to turn this book into a play! I got the idea from https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/this-is-not-my-hat

Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. Funny LF book! Very interesting and would definitely get students interested. #UCFLAE3414SP21 Winner of the Young Readers Choice Award! This site has great games and activities related to the book. https://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/programs/gep/dragon/ge_dragonmain.html

This is a cute and funny RF book and I think it‘s great to encourage students to ask a lot of questions like the girl in the book. It can inspire the students (and teachers) and it‘s a great one for the classroom library! #UCFLAE3414SP21 https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5e7e39cfcef11f64f0277994/5ea0930ddf66b20f4aa421a... This link has many activities for this book but I specifically love the first one!

A cute RF book that is just so sweet! Great book about diversity and confidence. 10/10 for sure. #UCFLAE3414SP21 I found a Great site that has activities for this book. I specifically like lyrical language activity! https://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/2021/02/encourage-self-love-with-eyes-that... I think this activity would be used well with UDL 8.3 foster collaboration and community

This Fantasy book is a good read that students may relate to! It is a Caldecott gold medal winder! Great for read aloud, this video read aloud is a good one that shows the images well and goes at good pace. https://youtu.be/ALmNPxNehYE This would be effective with UDL 1.1 offer ways of customizing the display of information. #UCFLAE3414SP21

This NF book is a great add to your library! It is about a Romanian gymnast named Nadia who won gold metals in the olympics at only 14! Talks about working hard and growing up! 10/10! #UCFLAE3414SP21

The book “Families, Families, Families!” Is a great fantasy book by Susan and Max Lang. It talks about diverse family makeup‘s and living situations and the overall message is that as long as you love each other, you are a family! It‘s important to make every student feel like they are included and represented. #ucflae3414sp21

https://www.bookinspiredplay.com/familiesfamilies.html
This link shows an activity that can go along with the reading

My TeachLive book is the Word Collector! I was drawn in by the title and the amazing illustrations on the front. After reading it I‘m really glad I chose it because I think it‘s so cute! Not to mention vocab and grammar have always been my strong suit so it resonated with a younger me! #ucflae3414sp21