Sharron L. McElmeel offers another winner—a new way to fire up interest in science, history, and other areas of the curriculum with students in grades 4-12.
Sharron L. McElmeel is an author and educational consultant and an instructor of children's and young adult literature at University of Wisconsin-Stout, WI. She has written over 35 books in the educational field, including Libraries Unlimited's Authors in the Pantry: Recipes, Stories, and More and Authors in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories, and More.
For classroom teachers, McElmeel (children's and young adult
literature, U. of Wisconsin-Stout), an educational and literacy
consultant, discusses about 63 picture books and how they can be
used with older readers in grades four through 12 to help them
understand curriculum, think critically, and grasp advanced topics.
She suggests specific titles, describes how they can be used with
already planned units in math, science, geography, and language
arts, and how they can be used for further exploration and
learning. Each listing includes a summary, extension ideas, and
related books. An additional 280 titles are briefly annotated.
*Reference & Research Book News*
Educators looking for ways to integrate picture books into
classroom instruction will find many ideas in this book. McElmeel
opens with excellent reasons for using picture books with older
readers. She then suggests 62 titles, most of them copyright 2006,
and provides thorough annotations, curriculum links, extension
ideas, and lists of related books to explore. Many of the titles
are nonfiction and relate directly to social studies, science, and
language arts. Teachers and librarians who don't have immediate
access to the books will find the detailed annotations helpful, and
the extension ideas and curriculum links will assist in sparking
creative ideas for using these titles with older students. In
addition to the featured titles, the book also contains a list of
280 somewhat older picture books with citations, key words, and
some brief descriptions of how they might fit into middle and high
school subject areas.
*School Library Journal*
McElmeel encourages teachers of older students to use picture books
to promote the introduction of new units and serve as starting
points for class discussions. . . . Teachers would be well-advised
to follow this plan of action in their classrooms. Recommended.
*Library Media Connection*
This exceptional text focuses on using current children's picture
books to enhance understanding of various content topics presented
to middle and high school students . . . Selected subjects are
interesting and varied, with annotations crisply compelling.
Extensive research provides the background component's little-known
facts. . . Overall the detailed classroom ideas are
teacher-friendly, interesting, and clearly enhance secondary
content; clunkers do not appear. . . an extremely beneficial
resource. They will yearn for a sequel.
*VOYA*
… All in all, this is an excellent resource to have in the
classroom and in the library.
*Catholic Library World*
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