BOOK AWARDS
Recognizes the African-American experience in literature for children.
What is the Coretta Scott King Award
The author of this middle grades novel "set" in Ghana won the John Steptoe Award for new talent.
What is Kwame Crashes the Underworld?
A book that depends entirely on illustrations to tell a story.
What is a wordless picture book?
This Puerto Rican author/librarian was the inspirational force behind the book award that honors work that best portrays the Latina/Latino cultural experience.
Who is Pura Belpré?
A statement at the beginning of a lesson plan that might be framed, "Students will...so that..."
What is an instructional outcome?
Established as the first award in the United States for literature written specifically for children.
What is the Newbery Award?
This novel features two boys, Michael and Ridge, who form an unlikely friendship in the summer of 1999.
What is The First State of Being?
A book that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is a nonfiction text?
This African-American author has written a variety of books for young people, including The Crossover and The Undefeated.
Who is Kwame Alexander?
The part of the lesson where the instructor is trying to interest students in the upcoming topic.
What is an icebreaker?
One of the criteria for this award is that the sentences must be simple and straightforward.
What is the Geisel Award?
The theme of intergenerational relationships is explored in this novel set mainly in a senior living facility.
What is Not Nothing?
What is a verse novel?
This Asian-American author has written many novels for young people, including The First State of Being.
Who is Erin Entrãda Kelly?
The process by which a lesson needs to be adapted for specific students' needs.
What is differentiation?
This award for nonfiction commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Comenius.
What is the Orbis Pictus Award?
This middle grades novel dealing with grief and loss contained elements of magical realism.
What is Lola?
Books that tells stories with believable, imaginary characters and plausible events that could happen in the real world.
What is realistic fiction?
This picture book author as been a Geisel award winner and also wrote 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli.
Who is David LaRochelle?
Closer proximity to students and stating clear expectations for students are two examples of this important aspect of lesson planning.
What are management considerations?
This award that promotes themes of peace and social justice was named for a woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is the Jane Addams Award?
The name, from German, of a novel that deals with the moral and psychological growth of a character.
What is a bildungsroman?
What is science fiction?
This Native American author is an internationally known artist and writer who wrote Stealing Little Moon about American Indian boarding schools.
Who is Dan SaSuWeh Jones?
The overarching principles that guide a quality and credible lesson plan for instruction.
What are content standards?