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Book Titles
- 10 Little Rubber Ducks
- 98, 99, 100, Ready or Not, Here I Come!
- A is for Angry: An Animal and Adjective Alphabet
- Abiyoyo
- Abiyoyo Returns
- Alphab'art
- Bad Kitty books
- Beastly Feast,The
- Black Book of Colors
- Button Box, The
- Chrysanthemum
- Cookie's Week
- Creature ABC
- Dandelion Seed, The
- Diary of a Wombat
- Discovering Nature's Alphabet
- Do Not Open
- Fireflies
- Five Little Ducks
- Frog and Toad books
- Gone Wild
- Grandma's Button Box
- Handmade Alphabet, The
- Handsigns
- Heckedy Peg
- Hungry Caterpillar, The
- Jack the Builder
- Joey and Jet
- Koala Lou
- Lilly's Big Day
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
- Me First
- Midnight Farm, The
- Mouse Count
- Mouse Mess
- Mouse Paint
- My ABC Signs of Animal Friends
- My Monster Mama Loves Me So
- One Monday Morning
- One Potato, Two Potato
- Owl Moon
- Perfect the Pig
- Pigs From A to Z
- Possum Magic
- Q is for Duck
- Rooster's Off to See the World
- Rosie's Walk
- Scary Scary Halloween
- Seven Blind Mice
- Silver Packages
- Stone Soup
- Stranger in the Woods
- Tangram Alphabet
- The Snowy Day
- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
- Timothy Goes to School
- Tiny Seed, The
- Tomorrow's Alphabet
- Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book, The
- Two of Everything
- Vera's First Day at School
- Where's Spot?
- Winnie the Witch
- Z was Zapped, The
Topics
- addition (3)
- adjectives (3)
- alphabet (6)
- animals (1)
- art (2)
- Caldecott (2)
- chapter book (2)
- characterization (3)
- colors (3)
- comprehension strategies (8)
- counting (3)
- counting on (3)
- days of the week (2)
- description (4)
- diary (1)
- doubles (1)
- Halloween (1)
- journal (1)
- letter sounds (5)
- letter writing (1)
- lists (2)
- location (1)
- making connections (9)
- math (8)
- multiplication (1)
- number words (1)
- opposites (1)
- ordinal numbers (1)
- plants (1)
- prediction (1)
- prepositions (1)
- puzzles (1)
- rhyming (3)
- school (1)
- seeds (1)
- sequencing (7)
- size (1)
- skip counting (1)
- social skills (1)
- sorting (2)
- subtraction (3)
- tangrams (1)
- verbs (1)
- visualization (1)
- vocabulary (4)
- winter (1)
- writing (8)
Want to Make Your Own Story Props?
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About Me
I became an elementary school special education teacher in 1978 and subsequently worked in early intervention with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers while raising my 2 sons. I returned to elementary school in 1998 and now teach reading, writing, math, behavior and social skills to kindergarten through 4th grade children with learning disabilities, attention deficits, autism spectrum disorders, and developmental delays. -Kim Roberts
Welcome!
My purpose is to provide teachers, librarians, parents and caregivers with resources to make picture books and the concepts they present real and memorable. Effective story props enhance the impact and enjoyment of picture books significantly. You can make your own story props (and I often do), but the ones presented at the end of each post can be ordered today. Only excellent books are included along with brief book reviews to help you determine if a book is right for you.
-Kim Roberts
-Kim Roberts
Teaching Resources
Scroll down to find selected resources for using picture books to teach math and writing as well as reading. A relevant story is a great introductory or closing activity for all content areas.
Using Literature to Teach Math
One of the most exciting developments in teaching mathematics to children is the use of good literature, classic or new, to bring math concepts to life. Stories in which quantity creates or solves conflicts make numbers important to children. Mathematical tools make more sense when they are used in the plot of a good tale. Beautiful or clever illustration of numbers or patterns make them memorable. Using literature as a springboard for or as a summation of mathematical ideas makes them real to children.
Using Literature to Teach Writing
Good books provide models for good writing, examples of writing genres, and inspiration for writing topics. Models of language structures, sentence formats, and dialogue illustrate conventions of print from putting a period at the end of each sentence to paragraphing quotations. Vocabulary presented in a story shows good word choice and voice. The plot or characters or settings of a story can lead to ideas to write about. Literature can motivate and provide support to struggling writers.
Using Literature to Teach Reading
Picture books are useful to teach elements of reading comprehension at all levels. A shorter and simpler story that is beautifully written and illustrated is much more accessible and more inclusive for both young emergent readers and older more sophisticated readers. Picture books are concise enough to allow discussion of elements of literature immediately and they provide wonderful examples for teaching comprehension strategies.
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