Amberly Media Center

First Grade/Kindergarten

• Barrett. Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.
• Goode. Dinosaur’s New Clothes.
• Willems. Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed.

Second Grade

• DiTerlizzi. The Field Guide.

Kindergarten/First Grade

• Cronin. Diary of a Worm.

Second Grade

• DiTerlizzi & Black. The Field Guide.

Third Grade/ Fourth Grade

• Mortenson. Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea.

One of the first steps in the research process is coming up with good questions. After using a Jeopardy game to practice searching the New Book of Knowledge online encyclopedia, second graders have taken on a huge higher order thinking challenge: they are helping me write new questions. Here’s our process:

1. Pick a SUBJECT
2. Search SUBJECT
3. Find an interesting FACT
4. Write the question using: WHO? WHERE? WHAT? WHEN? WHY? or HOW MANY…?
5. Write the ANSWER
6. REVIEW–”Does the question  lead me to the correct SUBJECT?” “Does the question lead me to the correct FACT?”

Kindergarten

• Florian. Dinothesaurus.
• Thomas. Rhyming Dust Bunnies.

First Grade

• Yee. Abracadabra! Magic with Mouse and Mole.

Second Grade

• DiTerlizzi & Black. The Field Guide.

Kindergarten

• Harper. When Randolph Turned Rotten. 
• Howe. Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores. 

First Grade

• Brett. The Umbrella.
• David. The Magic Raincoat.

Second Grade

• Yolen. Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy.

Third Grade

• Bayrock. Bubble Homes and Fish Farts.

• Gotta Book-30 Poets in 30 Days
  http://gottabook.blogspot.com/

• National Poetry Month
  http://www.poets.org/

• To subscribe to Poem-A-Day Email
  http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php

• Poetry Teachers
  http://www.poetryteachers.com

• Poetry4Kids
  http://www.poetry4kids.com/

• Magnetic Poetry
  http://www.magpo.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm

• Shel Silverstein.com
  http://www.shelsilverstein.com/

• Jack Prelutsky.com
  http://www.jackprelutsky.com/