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Hi Everyone-
A great big thank you to all who shared their Caldecott lessons. Such a
creative group! We're all very lucky to have each other...
Thanks again-
Marni Sherman, School Librarian
Tackan Elementary School
99 Midwood Avenue
Nesconset, NY 11767
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I do this with my third graders:
I pull all the Caldecott books we have and borrow others we
don't have from other libraries. I give them a brief history
of the award, the criteria, etc. I pick about 10 of them and
we discuss how the illustrations were created. I then divide
them up into groups by decades (this year I had the 30s and
40s together and the 90s and 00s together) and they look at
the books and decide which they think is the "best of the
bunch". I have a report form they fill out and one rep. from
each group reports aloud. Then we award one book from each
decade with a "Best of the Bunch" award. We display them in
the LMC after I get through all the classes. This year, we
had a group who couldn't decide, so they gave a gold and a
silver (after we had talked about winners and honors!)
Amy Madzinski
Brookdale School LMC Director
1200 Redfield Rd.
Naperville, IL 60563
Phone: 630-428-6805
Fax: 630-428-7384
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I have a wonderful program that I use with 2nd called the "Caldecott
Challenge". We study the Caldecott books, authors and illustrators. How th
illustrator created the pictures... They have to read 10 Caldecott Books by
the end of the year ( We read atleast this many in the library) . in May we
have a Caldecott Party with art activities.
Laurie L. Gordon, MLS
Mauriceville Elementary Librarian
20040 FM 1130
Orange, TX 77632
lgordon@esc5.net
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I teach library skills to all students grades 1 - 4 each week throughout
the year. This sounds simple, but seems to interest the kids. With 3rd
grade I introduce Caldecott this way:
1. Introduce the award with some history
2. Book talk a number of winners/runners up - showing books
3. Discuss (just a little) different illustration styles.
See - simple! But the kids like seeing the titles - commenting on those
they have read. Make sure you have a variety of illustration formats.
Most of the books are checked out right after our lesson!
Linda Groe
Elementary Librarian
Allamakee Community Schools
Waukon, IA 52172
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I just read Owl Moon to my second graders, and then they had to draw a
black and white picture. The picture had to have an owl, a Shadow, a
moon, and a winter tree. They did a great job!
Gail Wahl
Mellette Elementary
Watertown, S.D.
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For Joseph had a little overcoat, I made a template so the student's
could make a picture of themselves on the left half of a page in an
overcoat and on the right half, they cut out the shape of a jacket.
(Just like the book.) Then when they folded the paper, they would see
the picture them made of the overcoat. The sentence underneath it was
from the book except the students wrote in their name instead of Joseph.
We discussed the patterns and textures in the illustrator's work and
encouraged them to use vivid color to create definite patterns and
textures. They also needed to be reminded to draw themselves on the page
where the jacket shows through.
Joyce Pavelko
Ivy Hall School
Buffalo Grove, IL
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Just before the awards were announced, I collected as many of our books that
were previous winners to show my third and fourth graders. We discussed,
briefly, what criteria the judges are looking for...I tried to put it in
"kid friendly" language. Then I had the children each choose a book, read
it, and write a brief review including the medium of the illustrator and why
they thought the book won. I did a similar, but more whole class version of
this lesson with my second graders. Of course, when the new winner and
honor books were announced we read them and talked about why we thought they
were chosen.
Good luck!
Laura Spota, Library Media Specialist
Edgewood School (K-5)
Scarsdale, New York
lspota@scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us
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I usually introduce the Caldecott in 1st grade but I think this idea would
be fine for 2nd. I usually start the unit by showing a poster of all the
winners and talking about Caldecott. I have several books by him to look at
his style of illustrations. We talk about the award and I collect all our
school copies on a cart. During the next few sessions, I review the award
and the major details and read a winner. I also require the kids to check
out at least one Caldecott book each time for the next 3 weeks. On the
fourth week, I do an art project. Through discussion, the students will
learn that illustrators and authors don't often met each other when they are
doing a book. Many times the illustrator is assigned through the publisher.
The clues to the illustrations must come from the text. I hand out pages
that only have a sentence on them. (I patterned my on "A Tree is Nice") ex.
The animals sleep in the shadow of the tall tree. I have 3 different
sentences and hand them out randomly. The task is for the kids to
illustrate the sentence. After they are finished, I ask them to share their
picture. I make a big deal about the details they may have included and I
preceed to give them each a "Caldecott Award" for their illustrations. I
buy the gold sticky notary seals that are found in Office Max or Staples. I
then display them in the library on a bulletin board devoted to the
Caldecott Awards. The kids love getting the stickers!
Alexis Cuff
Librarian
Durham Nockamixon Elem. School
Pennsylvania
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I have not tried this yet, and don't know if it would work for 2nd grade or
not, but I have an idea I want to try. I had an old Caldecott poster from
last year, which my aide had laminated for some reason, and I felt badly
about just throwing it away when I got my new one. So I cut each little book
picture along with the title and author out of the poster. I now have little
Caldecott cards. I think I may combine a Caldecott lesson with book location
and have them find the books in small groups or with a partner. Then we'll
do
a book pass so they get to look at many of them. Haven't planned it out very
well, but...
Mia Beesley
Teacher-Librarian
Alan Shepard Elem.
Long Grove, IA
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There is new museum in my city, the National Center for Children's
Illustrated Literature.(NCCIL....for short...pronounced "nickel") The
NCCIL
solely exhibits the beautiful artwork from children's picture books. We
primarily concentrate on Caldecott winners. The website has much info on
past winners(books`, art form, style, acitivites). This year's winner,
David
Small, is currently the exhibit at the NCCIL. We were so excited about the
timing. You can read about him on the website....www.nccil.org
I work half time as a elementary librarian and then I volunteer at the
NCCIL.
It is my unpaid teaching job! I hope the NCCIL info helps you.
Martha Magee
Jackson Elementary
Abilene, Texas
marbeth2@aol.com
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I start by showing a fs on Randolph Caldecott, and we learn that he was
an English illustrator, etc. . The next week I read one of the winners
(Snowflake Bentley), and point out the award sticker. In the weeks that
follow I show a video of a book, and work with the kids to fill in a
simple crossword puzzle using info from the story. I make a tranparency
of the puzzle and do it along with the kids' paper copies. After
several weeks of videos and puzzles, I put many Caldecott titles on the
tables for them to look at and compare. We talk about the style of
artwork, and notice the differences. Next year I think I will start with
the browsing, and bag the fs which is pretty old and unappealing.
June Muldner, Librarian
George F. Johnson Elem
Endicott, NY 13760
jmuldner@stny.rr.com
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After the usual talk on Randolph Caldecott I put several books on my easel,
three at a time.( only one is a Caldecott) I book talk all three books and
we examine pictures. This shows students that there are a lot of good books
out their that don't win the medal. Students vote on their choices by
raising their hands. I cover medal with post-it note. One on each book,
medal or not. A student volunteer peels off the post it to see which book
has the medal. I get especially good reactions when I choose an old
Caldecott that no one picks because illustration has changed so. Have fun
with this. I also do this, with Newberry books, for older kids.
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I do a routine where we play "Who wants to be a millioniare?" I tell the
story of his life using the book published by the Caldecott people...
Then I pull a name out of the hat to answer the first five questions ...
then another name for the next five, till the end. Since it is shortened,
they only get "One lifeline" -- phone a friend or 50/50. Great fun, and
lots of reinforcement.
Betty Ann Picone
Librarian/Media Specialist
Fredon Elementary School
459 Rt. 94
Newton, NJ 07860
www.fredon.org
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A few friends took pictures of award winning books and then showed them to
the kids. We also took slides of the medal and the back of the medal. We
found some old books that had the pictures of Randolph's first book John
Gilpin's Ride (which is where the picture on the medal comes from) I guess
we should transfer those into PowerPoint or a digital format, but the slides
still work pretty well. We talk about mood, and use of color and black and
white, we also talk about first place winners and second and third place
winners. The second lesson involves some Caldecott Puzzles that I bought
from a company in Nashville. I let the kids put together some of the
winning
puzzles. I have also just mounted book jackets on tag board, laminated and
made puzzles from those.
Have fun
Chris Crouch
Librarian
Echo Lake Elementary School
Glen Allen, VA 23060
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Hi!
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Cheers!
Dawne Wheeler Reed
Library Media Specialist
Hohokam Middle School
7400 S. Settler Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85746-9099
520-578-4924 (phone)
520-578-4925 (FAX)
dreed@tusd.k12.az.us (school)
dwreed@azstarnet.com (personal)
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Hi. I have the Weston Woods filmstrip and cassette, "Randolph Caldecott:
the
Man Behind the Medal". I used to share it with 2nd graders, but have moved
the activities up to 3rd grade because there's a lot of information in it.
The week after sharing the AV, I present a fact sheet taken from the
filmstrip, and do a matching worksheet using the fact sheet as a resource.
(i.e. the country which presents the Caldecott Award--United States; what
number on the fact sheet gives us the answer?) I share Caldecotts before
the
January announcement; then purchase the winner and read it with the 3rd
graders. Do you have the wonderful Caldecott poster given to one free from
Follett; you just have to call. (They have a Newbery poster, too.) I get new
ones every year. The students use the poster for choosing books.
A.D.Katzer
Librarian, Hillers School (Pre-K--5)
Hackensack, NJ 07601
ADKatzer@AOL.COM
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I would like to contribute the following ideas in response to your request.
In addition to sharing Caldecott Award books, I like to include library
skills.
Two themes that can be incorporated into lessons with Caldecott's are:
1) discussing and demonstrating the variety of illustrations used for
picture books, and how they have evolved over the years since the award
began
in 1938.
2) What is a copyright? - Where is this date found and what does it
mean?
A lesson from a library curriculum text suggests the following lesson:
Around the World with Caldecotts, for grades 1-2. Put tags on world map as
you read Caldecott Medal and Honor books that feature stories from other
countries and cultures.
I look forward to a HIT. Thank you.
Martha Taylor, LMS
Oakside Elementary School
Peekskill, NY 10566
marliztay@aol.com
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