Common core in grades 4-6 : top nonfiction titles from School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine / edited by Roger Sutton, Daryl Grabarek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sutton, Roger, editor.

Grabarek, Daryl, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--Bibliography.

Children's literature.

Children--Books and reading--Bibliography.

Children.

Children--Books and reading.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

169 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Summary:

The Common Core in Grades 4-6 is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to recommend exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority in this guide, brought to you by the editors of the highly regarded review sources School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine, An introduction by Common Core experts Mary Ann Cappiello and Myra Zarnowski offers perspectives on the key changes brought by the new standards, including suggestions on designing lessons and sample plans. Following the introduction is an authoritative guide to approximately 200 selections published since 2007 for grades 4-6 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. These are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journals "Focus On" columns, which spotlight specific topics across the curriculum. Each section contains a list of the top titles with annotations and bibliographic data, "Focus On" articles are appended to appropriate categories to support in-depth curricular development and include a topic overview and list of current and retrospective resources and multimedia-including some fiction-that will enable educators to respond to Common Core state standard's call to work across formats. Book jacket.

Contents:

Arts 20

Business & Technology 28

Folklore 38

Language & Literature 41

Focus on Charles Dickens: Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens! / Jill Maza Maza, Jill 44

Poetry 49

Religion & Myth 53

Focus on Greek Mythology: OMGS! / Joy Fleishhacker Fleishhacker, Joy 56

Science 65

Focus on Ocean Life: Going Deep / Kathy Piehl Piehl, Kathy 89

Focus on Scientific Exploration: Quantum Leaps and Bounds / John Peters Peters, John 98

Sports 105

U.S. History 107

Focus on Westward Expansion: California Bound / Mary Mueller Mueller, Mary 114

Focus oh Politics: We The People / Jennifer S. Prince Prince, Jennifer S. 123

Focus on Civil Rights: Everyday Heroes / Rhona Campbell Campbell, Rhona 132

World History 141

Focus on the Holocaust: Rescue and Resistance / Rachel Kamin Kamin, Rachel 148.

ISBN:

1442236094

9781442236097

OCLC:

871671294