Allie+Shanholtzer

Community Workers Bibliography; Signature Assignment

ECS 418

10/5/14

Allie Shanholtzer

Non-Fiction

Behnke, Alison. 2005 Firefighers. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book talks about the community workers, firefighters. The text explains the uniforms they wear and how they protect them. The turnout gear helps keep out heat and smoke. They also explain the air mask and how they help them breathe. This book also talks about the different tools firefighters have; axes, cameras, goggles and hoses. When they introduce the different tools, they explain why they use them and how. They do a great job introducing this worker and describing the duty they have in their community. Firefighters, allows for you to integrate different areas from the read. You can include, in the social studies area, the Kindergarten standards of Civics and Government by talking about how they help to keep the community safe. You can incorporate Geography by discussing how jobs earn money to make a living. Economics can be presented in describing the different attributes of other jobs compared to this job. Other than Social Studies you can do an activity of patterns using goggles and a camera. You can also talk about the complex vocabulary that is presented in the text; air tanks, firefighter, turnout gear. This book is a great read and allows for an integrated curriculum.

Bellisario, Gina. 2013 Let’s Meet a Police Officer. Lerner Publishing Group. 24 pages. Scottsdale Public Library, Civic Center. This book describes the important job a Police Officer has. It explains the different areas Police Officers can work in; resource, traffic, field training, etc. This book talks in detail about how to become a Police Officer and how they are part of the community. They discuss how Police Officers communicate through one another, using numbers, and how they alarm the public, through sirens. A Police Officer helps keep the community safe and so do we by buckling our seat belts, standing up against bullying and dialing 911 in an emergency. Let’s Meet a Police Officer, allows for many areas in the curriculum to be incorporated through the read. Within the Social Studies standards, you can talk about the Civics and Government area, by discussing the importance of their position and how they help the community citizens. Aside from Social Studies, you can do an activity on the important Vocabulary stated throughout the text; assignment, community, crime, crosswalk, emergency, law, 911, patrol, technology, uniform. You can also do a writing assignment on what a Police Officer can help you with. Another activity would be to talk about numbers and make your own way of communicating, like 10-6 means silence please and 10-41 means any questions. There are many different activities you could do and this would be a fun read for the class.

Heos, Bridget. 2013 Let’s Meet a Teacher. Lerner Publishing Group. 24 pages. Scottsdale Public Library, Civic Center. This book explains the job of the most important community worker, TEACHERS. It explains that teachers are part of the community and what a community is. They go on to talk about how teachers are teachers, through college and student teaching. They talk about the different ways teachers teach students, through peer teaching and reading. In the book they also talk about the different tools teachers use such as, paper clips, white boards, chalk boards and pens. This book was very interesting and factual with the facts at the bottom of the page. They listed many facts from how teachers are teachers, to when the first school was formed in America. This book allows for an integrated curriculum. Within the Social Studies standards you could discuss, in the Civics and Government area, the responsibility teachers have in the school setting. You could discuss Economics by matching attributes of teachers. Aside from Social Studies, you could do a writing activity on what teachers do in the classroom, the steps it takes to become a teacher, or making a schedule just like teachers do in the classroom. The book talks about complex vocabulary, which allows you to incorporate in your classroom; celebrate, college, community, conferences, expert, notes, rewards, student teacher, subject. You could also do an activity on making a classroom expectation chart, allowing the students to come up with ideas. You can also incorporate reading by asking the students to make a prediction of what is going to happen in the story and what they think the story is going to be about based on the Title. In the grades Kindergarten and up, you could have worksheets of text or pictures of events happening in the story and them draw or write what came next in the text. There are many areas to incorporate and I enjoyed this book very much.

Jango-Cohen, Judith. 2005 Librarians. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book explains the job a librarian holds and how they are a community worker. They talk about what a community is and what the librarian does. In the beginning, they talk about how librarians help people find books and check out the books. They also explain that books are put away according to their labels. A librarian can help you find the label of a book and can also help you search for books about certain topics. This book describes the different resources a librarian can help you with; magazines, books, computers, globes, maps, videos. This book is great to read to a Preschool- 2nd grade classroom. Librarians, allows for teachers to implement different activities to integrate the curriculum.You can include Geography, for second graders, by talking about the reason some librarians are in that position due to family. In any grade level, you can talk about how everyone works to make money to be able to live from day to day with a roof over their head and food on the table. Aside from hitting social studies standards, this book can also hit many more areas. For any grade level you can talk about the complex vocabulary words throughout the text; librarian, bar code, labels, information, research, globe, map. You can also do an activity on the steps of arriving at a library. The first step, locating your librarian and asking for help to research books. The second step, getting on a computer and finding the book. The third step, finding the label on the book. The last step searching in the right area for the book. Another activity, you could use in preschool, you could make a label with numbers 1 through 10 and talk about each number. This would be a fun read for your class with many activities available to incorporate.

Knudsen, Shannon. 2006 Postal Workers. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book talks about how Postal Workers are community workers. They explain what a community is and how they help the community. They introduce the book by talking about mail and delivering mail to your home from family and friends. They explain that mail has labels that let the post office workers know where it goes to. They describe how they transport the mail, on carts and tractors and move them to a loading dock. They then put onto a mail truck and send out the mail to the address or label on the letter. At the end of book, they talk about how we should thank our postal workers for delivering our important mail to our homes. Postal Workers, gives teachers the opportunity to incorporate more than just social studies in the classroom through reading the text. In the kindergarten and First grade levels in social studies, you could talk about how people work different jobs to make money, this includes Geography. You can also discuss Economics through talking about the different jobs their are and their duties other than Postal Workers. Aside from Social Studies, you can talk about the complex vocabulary throughout the text; bar code, clerk, community, delivering, letter carrier, mail, mail handler, post office. You could also do an activity with color sorting different letters and mail. This book is very insightful to read to the class and allows for you to hit different areas in your curriculum.

Mitchell, Melanie. 2005 School Bus Drivers. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Scottsdale Public Library, Civic Center. This book has a great introduction of Bus drivers, being community workers. In the beginning of the text, the author talks about how they are community workers, and who community workers are. They go on to explain the important job they do, taking kids to and from schools and to field trips or sport games. Throughout the text, they talk about the different safety measures bus drivers take, watching for kids crossing the street and watching for cars when driving. They talk about the steps to becoming a bus driver. The first step of getting a special license to drive the bus. They talk about the features of the bus, the color and why they are yellow. This book really gives a great sense of the job a bus driver has and the importance of their position. My favorite part about the book is the facts at the end, in which they talk about the first bus ever made and how students would arrive at school before buses. School Bus Drivers, gives a great foundation for introducing many different areas in Pre-School and Kindergarten classrooms. They talk about social studies, being the key point in talking about community. For the Kindergarten grades, you could talk about Geography exploring how individuals make money and how we all work at different places. They also allow for you to introduce complex vocabulary in all the different words being used; community, driver’s license, engine, neighborhood, radios, routes. An activity you could do would be to talk about body parts and the sounds they make on the bus, like “the hands on the bus go up and down” and “the feet on the bus go stomp, stomp, stomp”. You can also talk about the colors of the bus and use color sorting with yellow and black. This would be a great book to read with many different ways to include an integrated curriculum.

Nelson, Kritstin L. 2005 Dentists. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book talked about Dentists, and the importance of their job.They talk about how important it is to brush your teeth. They explained that, dentists keep your smile healthy and when you are in pain you go to the dentist. They described the different people you see in the dentist, hygienist and patients. The important part, for young children, is they talked about what happens when you go for a checkup and the process. This book does a great job talking about the community worker of a dentist. Dentists, allows for many different standards to be hit in an integrated curriculum. You can introduce complex vocabulary words that are used through the text; dentist, germs, hygienist, checkups, patients, community. You can also talk about Economics on the different types of jobs that people can work at and talk about the Geography of describing how any individual can make money through a job they choose. An activity you could do would be to count teeth, using one-to-one correspondence. You can also do an activity on the parts in your mouth; tongue, teeth, gum. This book allows for an integrated curriculum with many different activities available.

Nelson, Kristin L. 2005 EMTs. Lerner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book talks about how EMTs are community workers. They explain how they arrive to emergencies, when 911 is called. They go over the different steps they take in caring for patients, like using bandages and tape to wrap scrapes and cuts. In the text, they also talk about the stretchers patients are put on and the oxygen masks they use, for those who cannot breathe. When patients have a broken arm, an EMT applies a splint to the patient for the bone to heal faster. EMTs, gives teachers the opportunity to integrate different areas into the classroom just by reading this book. You can talk about the complex vocabulary throughout the text; bandages, EMT, stretchers, oxygen mask, splint. You can incorporate Geography by talking about how these individuals work to make money and take care of themselves. After introducing numerous workers, you can bring in Economics by talking about the different attributes of jobs and the name of their job by matching. You can also talk about Civics and Government, by talking about how they take care of citizens in their community. Another activity you could do, would be to make patterns of the stretcher and oxygen mask. You could also talk about different body parts that could break and need an EMT to come help you; arm, leg, neck, back, fingers, toes. This book is a great book to read and will allow you to include many different areas in your curriculum through the read.

Nelson, Robin. 2005 Coaches. Learner Publishing Group. 32 pages. Online copy of book. This book talks about the role a coach plays in your community. They explain what a community is, and how a coach is a part of that. They describe the many sports that have coaches, such as dance, soccer, baseball and swimming. They talk about how coaches have whistles to instruct the practice and get the team to listen to their direction. They discuss the different jobs they have, like setting up practice and figuring out who to play in a game. In the text, they also talk about how any age team has a coach to push the players to get better, and explain to the team how they can get better. Coaches, opens a door for teachers to bring in many different areas in the curriculum other than social studies. Within Social Studies, you can include Civics and Government, by talking about how students can work together to help each other and work as a team. Bringing in Economics would be to talk about the different positions in the world other than coaches. Aside from Social Studies, you could talk about the complex vocabulary being used throughout the text; coaches, community, team, whistle, practice. An activity you could would be to play a soccer game, this would work on their physical development in the Pre-School level. You could also do an activity on writing and have the Kindergarten and up grades talk about their favorite coach and draw a picture. This book is a great read with many activities to incorporate in your classroom.

Nelson, Robin. 2005 Custodians. Lerner Publishing Group. 34 pages. Online copy of book. This book talked about Custodians and how they are community workers. They explain what community workers are and why they are important. This book talks about how they are located at our schools and why we should be helping them, by picking up after ourselves. They explain how they unlock doors and lock them at night, for the safety of the school. Throughout the text, they explain how they take pride in their job, and how they clean and take care of the school everyday. They also go into the different jobs they have, like fixing lights or doors that are broken. Custodians, gives teachers many different opportunities to introduce different areas other than social studies. Within Social Studies, you can introduce examples of other jobs and discuss and compare their duties. You can talk about Geography, by going over how these individuals work this job to make money to support themselves and their families. Aside from Social Studies, you can discuss the complex vocabulary through the text; boilers, custodians, community, drills, pagers, polish. Another activity would be to, have the children write a letter to your school custodian thanking him for all he does. This book is a great book to read and integrate many different areas in your classroom.