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 * Barbara and Kristen did an awesome presentation to a very full house!!!! They were inspirational!



Hook ‘Em and Book ‘Em with BAD, BAD lessons for an Outstanding Library Program**

Kristin Hildum Barbara Imrich hskkat@cox.net bimrich4@yahoo.com

VEMA Fall Conference 2006

Grade Level(s): K-4 Possible Title(s): //Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know// by Brian Cleary Materials: Book, Hink Pink Activity Sheet Activity: **Hink Pinks:** Introduce the idea of Hink Pinks (two-word rhyming riddles.) Have students guess the answers either as a class activity, in small groups, or with shoulder partners. Activity is an excellent lead-in to synonyms, rhymes, or rhyming poetry.
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Grade Level(s): K-5 Possible Title(s): //Gregor the Overlander// by Suzanne Collins //The Door to Time// by Pierdomenico Baccalario Materials: Book, empty CD spindles with clear plastic “CD” and attached labels Activity: **Put a Spin on It!:** Empty CD spindles make excellent spinners. Use labels to add significant vocabulary words, quotations, chapter titles, etc. and have students react to the word or phrase indicated. Activity is excellent for predicting before as well as for follow-up activities after reading. Grade Level(s): 1-4 Possible Title(s): //Love and Roast Chicken: a Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains// by Barbara Knutson //What Are Camouflage and Mimicry?// By Bobbie Kalman Materials: book, computer and multimedia projector Activity: **eBook Excitement**: More and more new eBooks are becoming available and can be previewed on publishers’ websites such as Follett http://www.flr.follett.com/login/ These downloadable books can be used in numerous class activities such as predicting and working with the title page, index, contents, and glossary.
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Grade Level(s): All //How I Found the Strong: a Civil War Story// by Margaret McMullan //The Silent Witness: a True Story of the Civil War// by Robin Friedman Materials: Book, slides or PowerPoint with photographs (CD), computer and multimedia projector Activity: **Get the Picture!** Show students the slides with photographs that set the stage for the book. Students will make predictions and ask questions while viewing the slides. Read the book.
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 * Possible Title(s**): //The Door to Time// by Pierdomenico Baccalario
 * Possible Title(s**): //The Door to Time// by Pierdomenico Baccalario
 * Possible Title(s**): //The Door to Time// by Pierdomenico Baccalario

Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //Virginia Bound// by Amy Butler Great for Non-fiction and Historical Fiction Materials: Book, Anticipation Guide Activity: **Anticipation Guide**-Discuss the time frame of the book. Allow students to complete the first look at the Anticipation Guide. Read chapter 5. Allow students to revisit the Anticipation Guide independently.
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Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //Upper grade fiction// Materials: list of genre specific books, Book talk notes, PowerPoint Activity: **Book Talk Bonanza**-After sharing a set of books in a book talk session make a simple PowerPoint slide show to highlight the titles. Keep it on a computer in the library. Allow students to reference it when searching for a book.
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 * Grade Level(s)**: 2-4
 * Possible Title(s**): //Homespun Sarah// by Verla Kay
 * Materials**: Book, Self-Inventory sheet
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.
 * Possible Title(s**): //Homespun Sarah// by Verla Kay
 * Materials**: Book, Self-Inventory sheet
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.
 * Materials**: Book, Self-Inventory sheet
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.
 * Activity:** **Self Inventory**-Great activity for all texts that rely heavily on new vocabulary. Allow students to complete the self inventory at least a day before reading the text. Plan to review vocabulary that was challenging across the board, based on the results of a self inventory.

Grade Level(s): K-1 Possible Title(s): Dream Snow by Eric Carle Materials: Book, pictures of zoo animals, white construction paper Activity: **It’s Snow Problem**-Before reading tell the students that it snowed last night at the zoo and some of the animals were covered with snow. Tell them you need their help to figure out which animals they are. Place pictures of animals with snow shapes over them up on the board. Brainstorm animals at a typical zoo. Take guesses and reveal. Read //Dream Snow//.
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Grade Level(s): K-2 Possible Title(s): //Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money// by Amy Axelrod //Cluck O’Clock// by Kes Gray Materials: book, large pig poster (CD) with pocket to hold money, pretend money (CD), or clock with moveable hands (available at http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/clocks/clock/template.shtml) Online virtual clock manipulative available at http://www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/Math_Games/Jude_e-Clock/clock.htm Activity: **Let Me DO It!** Read the book as students count out the money indicated and deposit in the large paper pig bank. (//Cluck O’Clock)// Read the book as students move the hands of the paper clock as the time changes in the story.
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Grade Level(s): K-3 Possible Title(s): //Searching for Oliver K. Woodman// by Darcy Pattison //A Small Dog’s Big Life: Around the World with Owney// by Irene Kelly Materials: Book, Map of the United States (CD), either as individual copies for students or transparency for entire class Activity: **Hot on the Trail:** Read the story as students mark the states visited by Oliver K. Woodman. Oliver’s destinations are revealed in postcards and letters. Detailed activity guide and pattern for making Oliver K. Woodman are on CD. Excellent map templates available at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html Templates for variety of postcards available at: http://www.designedlykristi.com/freebies/postcards1.html
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Grade Level(s): K-3 Possible Title(s): //The Great Fuzz Frenzy// by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel //Terrific// by Jon Agee Materials: book, reader’s theatre script (CD), colored fuzz Activity: **Getting in the Act:** Read the book. Then, using fuzz for props, students will perform the reader’s theatre version of the book. Additional reader’s theatre scripts are available at: http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/playhouse/index.html http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
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Grade Level(s): K-2 Possible Title(s): //The Very Hungry Caterpillar// by Eric Carle //The Baby Beebee Bird// by Diane Redfield Massie Materials: Book, Puppet(s), puppet props Activity: **Puppet Pizzazz:** Read the story as students act out the events with the puppet(s) and props.
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Grade Level(s): K-1 Possible Title(s): //Ladybug’s Birthday// by Steve Metzger //Ant, Ant, an Insect Chant by// April Pulley Sayre //Frog Prince Continued by// Jon Scieszka Materials: Book, Insect (Handout)stick puppets Activity: **Puppet Pizzazz**-Students can color and put together stick puppets prior to story. As you read the story each child acts out their insect part as the character arrives in the story. Follow up with //Ant, Ant and Insect Chant// and students will marvel at the new bugs they meet. Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //Each Little Bird that Sings// by Deborah Wiles Materials:The Book, quotes from the book on small slips of paper. Activity: **Quotation Query**- Have students pull a few quotes from a “hat” before starting the book. Discuss the possible meaning of the quotes or their interpretation. Post the quotes for students to see throughout the reading. As the book is read discuss one quote from each chapter.
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Grade Level(s): All Possible Title(s): //Watch it Grow: Duck// by Barrie Watts (NF) //Eagle Boy// by Richard Lee Vaughn Materials: Template for Data Bank ,Book, Transparency of Data Bank Activity: **Data Bank and Riddle Report**- Display Data Bank transparency. Explain to students that a data bank holds information just like a savings bank. As students read text or listen they jot notes in the appropriate boxes.
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Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane// by Kate DiCamillo //Walk Two Moons// by Sharon Creech //Here Lies the Librarian// by Richard Peck Materials: Book, template for Bio-Poem Activity: **Bio-poem**-After reading the first two chapters of //The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane// complete the Bio-poem for the character Edward Tulane. After completing the book make another poem about Edward. Discuss how the poem/character changed. Grade Level(s): 1-3 Possible Title(s): What Are //Camouflage and Mimicry//? by Bobbie Kalman Materials: Book, words to “Camouflage” song Activity: **Sing It Again!** Read //What Are// //Camouflage and Mimicry//? aloud. Have students read, sing, or learn the chorus to the song “Camouflage.” An amazing number of songs on topics from the “Bill of Rights” to “Verb Rap” to “Rapunzel Got a Mohawk” http://songsforteaching.com/s/scruggs/Rapunzel.mp3 are available at: http://www.songsforteaching.com/ Look under the subject area, then “Recommended Songs.” For most songs, all the lyrics are given and a sample of the music.
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Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //Why Is It Snowing?// By Judith Williams //W is for Wind: a Weather Alphabet// by Pat Michaels Materials: Book, concentration game board, concentration game cards (CD) Excellent source of various game templates: http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/carl/Board%20Games%20Grove.htm Activity: **The Name of the Game:** After reading the book, students play concentration game and try to match a word with a definition or fact. Grade Level(s): 1-5 Possible Title(s): Any title Materials: Book, United Streaming website Activity: **Quickie Quiz:** Read the book. Then using the Quiz Creator function of United Streaming, quickly and easily create a quiz to review highlights in the book. Students will be able to access the quiz from any computer where you have put a link. The quizzes will be graded automatically, and the results are available.
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Grade level (s): 1-3 Possible Titles: //Great Fuzz Frenzy by// Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel, //Some Snug Slug// by Pamela Duncan Edwards Materials: Book with alliteration, Pattern sheet Activity: **Alliteration Amalgamation**-After reading a fun story that uses alliteration have the students use the pattern to make up their own animal alliteration sentences. Publish in a book for the class. Grade Level(s): 2-5 Possible Title(s): //Dog Breath// by Dav Pilkey Materials: Picture Book, summarizing pattern (Handout) Activity: **Super Summarizing**-Read //Dog Breath// aloud. As a class complete summarizing pattern. Remove the word “somebody” and you have great summary of the book. Grade Level(s): 2-3 Possible Title(s): //Thesaurus Rex// by Laya Steinberg Materials: Book, “Thesaurus Sue “ pattern book Activity: **Thesaurus Rose**- Read //Thesaurus Rex// to class. Highlight pattern of text. Show students the thesaurus. Discuss its uses. As a class, make the “Thesaurus Sue” book, finding four synonyms for each underlined word. Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //Mighty Jackie// by Marissa Moss Materials: Book, Magic Square sheet Activity: **Magic Square**-After reading the book students match the sentences to the correct words in the Magic Square. If done correctly all rows and columns add up to the same number. Grade Level(s): 3-5 Possible Title(s): //W is for Wind: A winter Alphabet// Materials: Book, Alphaboxes, Dewey Bookmark Activity: **Do the (weather) Dewey**-Students try to fill alphaboxes with possible weather words. Read the book. Those with the most matches get to come up to the projector and look up weather words in the online catalog. Students put Dewey numbers on their bookmarks.
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