|
Transformers
"It's
not just the knowledge of books, but the exercise of the brain
that gives one the power and scope to think." Clayton
Stribling
2008-2009
Kids' Wings Award
Books
Plus
Texas Bluebonnet Award Master ListSM
Children's
literature provides powerful learning and entertainment opportunities
that are catalysts to creativity and research. Click each
title below to browse or order. Extension links for each book
will be provided! In addition to the new literature, Transformers
includes units on other books that make excellent literary partners.
Included in the spiral-bound book with CD and site license for
one school, you'll find over 500 pages of activities, 6 recorded
songs, and 9 Jeopardy-type games.
How
do Kids' Wings activities for these books transform your classroom?
They provide balance, problem solving, group activities, and inspiration
by giving you essential Imaginative Activities
and Testing Activities
to use with authentic literature!
Transformers
is
a 500-page book that contains units on ALL of these books and
their literary partners:
The
Kids' Wings Award List for 2008-2009:
Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher
Paul Curtis (2008 Newbery Honor
Book)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People
to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson (Partner
Unit for Sweet Clara and the
Freedom Quilt is included in Transformers)
Rudy Rides the Rails, A Depression
Era Story by Dandi Daley Mackall
The World's Greatest Elephant
by Ralph Helfer
The
2008-2009 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master ListSM:
Atherton: the House
of Power by Patrick Carman
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars
by Douglas Florian (Partner Unit for My
Light by Molly Bang is included in Transformers)
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw
Tale of Friendship and Freedom by Tim Tingle
Gabriel's Horses by Alison
Hart
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara
O'Connor
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian
Selznick (2008
Caldecott Medal)
Just Grace by Charise Mericle
Harper
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight
Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully
The Middle of Somewhere
by J. B. Chaeney
One-Handed Catch by Mary
Jane Auch
One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia
DeFelice
Tall Tales by Karen Day--(Language
Alert! This Book contains cursing)
Team Moon: How 400,000 People
Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa
Graff
This
is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman--(Language
Alert! This Book contains cursing)
Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins
The Winner's
Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
(Partner
Units for Amber
on the Mountain and Mary
on Horseback by Rosemary Wells are included in Transformers)
What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms,
and Pajamas by Patricia Lauber (Partner
Unit for Turn of the Century
by Ellen Jackson is included in Transformers)
|
Transformers:
Literature Celebrations 2008-2009
This awesome teacher/student
learning guide
will be available ONLY through Kids'
Wings!
"We
are continually faced by great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems." Lee Iacocca
*
Language Alert: Two books on the Texas Bluebonnet
Master ListSM
contain instances of characters cursing or using Christ's name in cursing.
Although, we at Kids' Wings, choose to honor the name of God in our speech
and in our writing, we see the redeeming qualities of
Tall Tales as important to many children
and families faced with an alcoholic parent. This
Is Just to Say brings a message of apology and forgiveness, very important
in this world, but it includes two words that we wouldn't allow to be
said in our classroom. It is disappointing that award-winning books would
model vulgarities and the use of the name of Christ in cursing for our
our children. (We don't expect all children to be Christians, but we do
expect all children to respect the sacred names in all religions.) We
believe it is time to respect our children in all areas of their lives,
including their literature. We are grateful to authors who choose to use
finesse in their descriptions of cursing and leave the
exact words to the readers' experience and imaginations.
Kids'
Wings has created outstanding activities for each novel, units which provide
the latest in integrated curriculum. |
