1. Using Picture Books to Engage Learners Kristin Skogstad Elementary Instructional Coach

2. Best Practices In Reading Steven Zemelmann, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde provide us with recommendations for teaching reading in their 2008 edition of Best Practices-Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schoolsrecommendations

3. Tips for Using Picture Books Use picture books in all subject areas to teach and reinforce standards Picture books can be read aloud several times and can be used for many teaching points. When teachers use picture books during shared reading or read aloud time it often becomes a collaborative learning activity. This helps to build a students schema. This is the perfect opportunity for teachers to model their thinking as readers.

4. Spotlight on Picture Books

5. *Empathy, discrimination, belonging

6. Time Money

7. Importance of Thinking (Great to use Before testing)

8. Conventions, dialogue, connections

9. Questioning, Inferring

10. Friendship, science connections, community

11. Point of view, voice

12. Summarizing timelines, primary source Materials, Social Studies connections

13. Social Studies Connections (Slavery), Idioms, compare/Contrast

14. Synthesizing; changes in thinking

15. Synthesizing, changes in thinking, Social Studies Connection - segregation

16. Making Inferences, Character Traits, Social Studies Connection - Holocaust

17. T/T and T/W Connections, Social Studies

18. Social Studies- Geography, inferring,

19. Family, point of view, voice, Social Studies Connections/History

20. Historical Fiction, Social Studies Connection, Inferring

21. Belonging, racial discrimination, character Development, inferring

22. Inferring, drawing conclusions, test prep

23. Communities, belonging, visualization, Creativity

24. Visualization, connections, rhythm

25. »Acceptance, characterization

26. »Geometric Shapes, Acceptance,

27. Good Character

28. Social Studies Connection, inferring, plot, friendship,

29. Let’s Explore Books!! Yellow Cards: Primary or K-2 books Blue Cards: All or Most grade levels books Green Cards: 2 nd – 5 th grade books Purple Cards: Mostly 3 rd – 5 th grade – some of the books may work at lower levels as well. Red Cards: Books to use during math time.

30. What Questions do you have??