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Let's Draw!
Learners practice their drawing skills using a variety of stories as sources for their inspiration. Crayons and pencils are utilized to model different line widths, textures, and shapes.
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Students make connections with the book Because of Winn-Dixie through writing. In this writing lesson, students pretend to be the main character and write a letter to her mother, using very descriptive language. Students also...
Curated OER
Begin Reading Seedfolks
Learners are introduced to the book Seedfolks and the concept of community. In this Seedfolks literature study lesson, the first in a unit, the teacher reads the first half of the book and students answer comprehension questions and...
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Armstrong Sperry's Newbery Award Acceptance Paper
This Ogram.org site presents a hardcopy of the Newbery Award Acceptance, written by Armstrong Sperry in 1941 for "Call It Courage."
American Library Association
American Library Association: Newbery Medal Home Page
This page is dedicated to winners of the Newbery Medal, an award named for an eighteenth-century British bookseller. Link is available for list of current winners and past winners.
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School Library Journal: The One and Only Ivan: Author Katherine Applegate
Learn about Newbery award winning author Katherine Applegate's writing career and how she was inspired to write "The One and Only Ivan."
Harold D. Underdown
Children's Book Awards/ Award Winning Children's Books
Site includes information about the Caldecott Medal, the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and other National Awards from 2002-current. Includes a page on each award, links to press releases, and...
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Appreciation of Literature Through Newbery Books
Students will select a Newbery Medal Award book to read. They will complete one of three projects to reflect understanding of the chosen book. Their projects will be presented to the class in an effort to entice other students to read...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Newbery Medal Winners for 20 Years Prior
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a comprehensive book list. A list of 20 Newbery Award-winning books are provided on this resouce.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Katherine Paterson's Biography
Discover more about the Newbery award-winning author Katherine Paterson when you check out this resource. This site features an author's biography, booklist, interview transcript and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Check out this site to learn more about the 1936 Newbery award-winning book Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. This site provides a description of the book, a discussion guide, a writing prompt, and more.
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Scholastic: Book Files: Out of the Dust
"Out of the Dust", a Newbery Award Winning, poetic book by Karen Hesse. The heroine, Billie Joe, faces issues of forgiveness and healing during the Dust Bowl. The story is set in Oklahoma, during the Great Depression. Make a smart choice...
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Scholastic: Book Files: The Giver
Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Scholastic: Book Files: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", by Mildred D. Taylor is a riveting, Newbery Award winning novel, about a family living in the 1930s Jim Crow South. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Scholastic: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Have you ever read the Newbery award book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry? This site provides discussion questions, a writing prompt, an extension activity, and more.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Meet the 2017 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Award Winners
Most of us have read at least one Newbery, Caldecott or Printz Award recipients either in school or for leisure. The newest additions to the prestigious lists have been named for 2017.
Harold D. Underdown
The Newbery Medal Winners, 2002 Current
Site includes a listing of previous winners of the Newbery Book Medal in children's literature since 2002. Shows winners and provides a link to each book's page on "Amazon.com" for buying information.
The Washington Post
Kids Post: 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon' Wins 2017 Newbery Medal
Take a look at the newest members of the top literary awards in children's books as of January 2017.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Reading List for With Kids Who Love or Dislike Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading list with motivational books. Newbery Award winners and Caldecott Award winners make up the majority of the list.
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Indie Bound: Lois Lowry
This resource offers an interview with Newbery Award Winner, Lois Lowry, in question and answer form. Also included are hyperlinks to more information.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Sid Fleischman's Biography
Disover more about the Newbery award-winning author Sid Fleischman through this resource. Provides a biography, booklist and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Sounder
Newbery Award Winner, "Sounder", by William H. Armstrong, is about a sharecropping family and their hunting dog, Sounder. Overarching themes of this novel are courage, family, racial injustice, the importance of education, and hope. Make...
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Scholastic: Book Files: Bridge to Terabithia [Pdf]
"Bridge to Terabithia", a Newbery Award winner by Katherine Paterson is a contemporary novel of friendship, accepting differences, giving, imagination, and caring for others. Friends, Jess and Leslie live in rural Virginia community....
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