Desirae+Williamson

Desirae Williamson ECD 418: Signature Assignment Literature for Social Studies Integration: Community Children’s Non Fiction Ajmera, Maya and Ivanko, John (1999) **To be a Kid**. Charlesbridge Publishing. 14 pages. Tempe Library.
 * The book entails all it means to be a kid in the world. It describes how children all experience the same type feelings and incidents in their lives. It shows real life people from all over the world partaking in different events that most children go through. It talks about making friends, playing together, and going school just like all children will do.
 * Not only does this book teach about a child and provide them with self awareness, This book shows pictures of different communities around the world. The book can be used in a mathematic standard by comparing the different children around the world. Students could graph differences and similarities of the children in the book. Also this book could be used in language arts because children could be encouraged to write letters to the children in the book. Because the book is about what makes a child similar the letters can be about what the children do and asking what the children they are writing do.
 * Nonfiction (informational)

Ehlert, Lois (1996) **Eating the Alphabet.** HMH Books for Young Readers. 28 pages.Tempe Library Miller, Margret (1988) **Whose Hat?** Greenwillow Books. 40 pages.Tempe Library Saunders- Smith, Gail (1998) **Communities.** Pebble Book. 24 pages. Tempe Library Stojic, Manya (2002) **Hello World! Greetings in 42 Languages Around the World**. Cartwheel. 40 pages. Tempe Library.
 * This book states a letter of the alphabet on each page. Then the pictures and words are of the fruits and vegetables one can eat that start with each letter. The book will introduce new and interesting new plants to the children through an organized and colorful way. The child will be interested in the new plants and the names each one has because of the unique qualities to each one.
 * This book can be used in social studies, language arts and science. In social studies children can learn about vegetables and who cooks them in their community. Teachers can utilize the book to introduce chefs to children. In language arts students can learn the alphabet using items they may see every day. Teacher can use the book to teach letters and how to make words with the letters. In science, teachers can use the book to introduce plants and the different ways we grow them to make food.
 * Nonfiction (informational)
 * This book allows the students to not only listen to the book but also be interactive while reading. The students must guess who might use the hat being depicted. One hat is shown on a page. The students will get to guess the person who would use the hat. On the following page a real life community worker is presented and a picture of a child playing pretend with the different hats.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book can lead into lessons not only in community but also in mathematics and the arts. This book is used for community by introducing community helpers and what they do in the community. The book could also be used in mathematics because students could categorize the workers by their hats or what they do in the community such as saves people, delivers items and fixes things. In the arts, children can perform plays about the different workers they learn about in the book. They can pretend they are the workers in the book and assist the people in the community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nonfiction (informational)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book shows real life pictures of people in the community and how they assist us. Each page introduces a new character and expresses how they help in the community. Children will be introduced to the community helpers using actual people in order to help them identify what these people do and what they actually look like in their daily lives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teachers can use this book to teach about community helpers. Children will be able to identify real life people so they can recognize them in real life. Teachers can also use this book to teach about technology and mathematics. Teacher can introduce activities on the computer that relate to the people that work in a community. Children can also learn about mathematics by counting, categorizing, and describing the workers in the book. The children can explore how many different jobs there are in the book and what the differences there are between them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nonfiction (informational)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this colorful book, students will be introduced to new languages and cultures. Each page introduces a new heritage and provides how they say hello in their language. The captivating illustrations are hand painted and depict children from around the world. The children can enjoy new cultures and communities by learning how each one says hello.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book not only lends its self to the social studies standard community but also foreign and native language and social and emotional development. Students learn about community by discovering customs in other places outside of their world. In foreign and native language students are taught about different languages and how each language says hello. Student can practice using different languages and begin their awareness of new languages.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children’s Fiction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alborough, Jez. (2002) **Fix- It Duck**. Harper Collins. 40 pages. Private Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Caseley, Judith (2002) **On the Town: A Community Adventure.** GreenwillowBooks**.** 32 pages. Tempe Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Civardi, Anne (1985) **Things People Do**. Usborne Pub Ltd. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eastman, P. D. (1962) **Are You My Mother?** Harper Collins. 72 pages. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Levin, Bridget (2004). **Rules of the Wild.** Chronicle books. 13 pages. Tempe Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Niemann, Christoph (2007) **The Police Cloud.** Schwartz & Wade Books. 20 pages. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pfister, Marcus (1992) **The Rainbow Fish**. North-South Books Inc. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pollack, Barbara (2004) **Our Community Garden.** Beyond Words. 32 pages. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Van Hout, Miles (2013) **Happy**. Limniscaat USA. 52 pages. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zimmerman, A., Clemesha, D. (1999) **Trashy Town**. Harper Collins. 32 pages. Tempe Library
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this story children will dive into an adventure with “Fix It Duck.” The duck begins with a leaky roof but ends up with more problems than one. As the story progresses, the duck luck becomes worse and he keeps running into new things her needs to fix around his community in order to obtain the supplies needed to fix his house. The rhythm and rhymes in the book will hold the students’ attention and bring them on a rollercoaster of emotions while reading the book.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children can learn about community by figuring out how to fix things and how to work together as a community to fix items. Children can also learn about cause and effect when reading the book. Because the duck had a leaky roof so he needed ladder and when he went to get a ladder he ran into a new problem. Each new problem effected how the next part of the puzzle was to be accomplished. This book can also teach students about fine motor and gross motor skills. Teachers can create items that children can fix such as screwing in a screw or hammering in a nail.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (adventure)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book follows a student named Charlie and his mother around his community to complete a homework assignment. He is required to visit places around his community and take notes in his notebook along the way. He visits many places and meets different people who work in his community. He writes the names of people, places and jobs that he encounters on his walk with his mothers support to spell the words. He then draws pictures that accompany his entries. The children have the opportunity to observe Charlie’s entries and learn about his community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This adventure teaches about community, language arts, and science. In community children learn where people work and where they can find people in their community. In language arts students learn how to take notes by drawing and writing their observations. Students will learn to utilize a note book and refine their fine motor skills. In science students can learn about observing, questioning and making predictions based on their environments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (realistic fiction)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this book, children will discover what people do all over a city to keep the community running. They will meet many different workers. From bakers to nurses, the book seems to have any job imaginable. The children will enjoy searching the books pictures to find new aspects in the pictures because of all the detail added in. Do not forget to look for the hidden duck on each page. The names also entice the children being clever and funny.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will not only learn that people rely on one another but also investigation skills and economics. Students will investigate all the details in the book and how the details show us who the workers are. Without all the detail we would not understand whom the author was trying to tell a story about. The children will learn about economics because the book is about the workers jobs and how they make money. Students can make up jobs they have heard about at home also.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (realistic fiction)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children will follow a newly hatched baby bird in his search to find his true mother. Because the mother flew away to obtain food before the baby bird could see her, the baby bird makes many mistakes trying to find his mother around his community. He asks animals and objects in his search but no one seemed to be his mother. Just when he thought he would not find his mother, she came back and she explains who the baby bird is.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children can learn about community by discovering who a mother is and who makes up a community around a bird. They will also learn about science and how animals live. The book begins with an egg hatching. With this, teachers can expand on living things and how everything is born. Students can investigate with any animal and explain their community. Students can also use their categorizing skills. They can categorize animals into their kingdoms and match babies with their parents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (animal)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“An unruly book of manners” as stated on the cover. This book investigates how animals have different expectations of their actions then children. It compares how a lion’s or a elephant’s parents may allow their child to act, over how a human child is supposed to behave. Children can explore rules in a fun inviting way. The pictures are drawn childlike and the words rhyme making it an interesting book for children.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children will learn about manners and expectations and how they differ over communities. They can also learn about writing lists and creating ideas. Teachers can have students make a written list with numbers of the rules in their own lives and compare them to the books rules. Children can also learn about math by counting the rules they make. They will use counting and cardinality by counting the rules and being able to write the rules.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (animal)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book depicts a cloud who wants to be a police officer. He wants to save lives, keep the city safe and help those who are lost but something always gets in the way. The children will feel the excitement, hope, sadness and happiness the cloud experiences throughout his time as a police officer. They will learn that sometimes we are not meant for one thing but if you keep trying you will find exactly what you are meant to be.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">While learning about community, students can explore police officers and how they keep us safe. Many students have witnessed police officers in their work and can have negative feeling toward them. Having a lesson on how police officers assist us in our daily lives and keep us safe will allow students to trust them. Students can learn how to write letters and act like police officers with this book. Students could write letters and tickets to practice their writing skills. They can also pretend to be police officers.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A book about a fish learning to socially interact with his peers. The book touches on how to share and the benefits to sharing with others. The water colors draw the children into the illustrations and capture their interest in the story. As they read the book students will reflect on the Rainbow Fish making Friends and in the end why the other fish wanted to become friends.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will learn about community by understanding others wants and how to help others get those wants. Children will also learn about forming relationships among others by sharing and respecting the others. Teachers can use the book to create sharing activities and explain what it means to share. Teachers can also teach students about literacy and how to use clues from the book to predict what is going to happen next. Children can predict what the fish can do to make friends and what more difficult words mean by using the words around it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (adventure)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book follows a girl named Audrey and her friends into a community garden in San Francisco. The book details how they take care of the garden and how they can make different food to eat with the plants they grow. They work together as a community to keep the plants growing and enjoy watching their hard work grow. The pictures and descriptions will entice the children to work together as a community to form a relationship these friends have.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In a community people take care of the earth and work together to grow their food. Student will learn how to grow a community garden. Using the book, the teacher can explore lessons based on science and health education. It can be covered by science because students will learn how things grow and the different aspects of a plant. Teachers can teach health education by explaining healthy foods and how foods that are grow are part of the food pyramid.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (realistic fiction)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This vibrant book will intrigue children while allowing them to explore every day emotions through sea creatures. This is a simplistic book that shows a picture and lists the emotion but grabs the readers through the illustrations. The emotions displayed in the book are easily identified in an adorable and colorful way.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book can teach students about emotions that people in their community may feel on a daily bases. Teachers can also teach self awareness and art. Teachers can teach self awareness by having child reflect on when they felt the emotion that are displayed in the book and even make their own emotions book. To teach art, teachers can allow students to use pastels. Because the book uses pastels, students can explore a new utensil to create art on their own.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (animal)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the title hints at, the book is about all the trash around a town. A fun trash truck man takes the readers through his day finding trash bins to empty into his trash truck. The children will enjoy the repetitive sayings that rhyme. When the students are done reading they will continue to recite “smash it down, drive around the trashy town…”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this book student will learn how to clean up their community. Teachers can also use this book to teach rhymes and mathematics. The book rhymes and repeats a few different phrases. Students and teachers can list the rhyming words in the book and expand them to more words that rhyme with the words in the book. Students can learn mathematics by counting the trash cans on the pages.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction (adventure)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teacher Resources <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Antill, Sara (2012) **10 Ways I can Help My Community.** PowerKids Press. 24 pages. Personal library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">East, Kathy and Thomas, Rebecca (2007). **Across Cultures.** Libraries Unlimited. 342 pages. Tempe Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Freeman, Judy (2006). **Books Kids Will Sit For.** Libraries Unlimited. 915 pages. Tempe Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Ross, K. (2006) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Crafts for Kids Who are Learning About Community Workers. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> Millbook Press. 48 pages. Personal library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walsh, Melanie (2008) **10 Things I Can Do to Help my World.** Candlewick. 40 pages. Personal Library.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This entails 10 ways that children can contribute to their community. The list joining groups, volunteering, picking up trash, and many more. Teachers can provide this book for students to read and brainstorm ways they can help in their community at home. The book is a good starting point for students to become involved with their community one step at a time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book can assist teachers in coming up with new ways that they can have students help in the community. They can also use the book to teach numbers, and leadership. The teacher can talk about how to count to ten. Also teachers can teach leadership because the book is about joining groups and getting friends together to take care of a community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nonfiction (informational)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book is a compilation of more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction books that deal with multicultural topics for preschool to grade 6. The book is grouped in themes and gives descriptions of the books listed. It identifies what age the book is for, what type of book it is and gives ideas for activates in the categories. The book encompasses all genres and makes connection to all aspects that a teacher may need.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book can be used to teach foreign language, social studies and language arts by the different books that they provide. Every book allows the teacher a new lesson about cultures. Teachers will utilize the book to find books teach about community and cultures.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The book is a composition of over 2,000 books that will engage students K-6. The book includes all genres with a summary, related titles and subject connections. It also includes activities that tie into the curriculum to make it more meaningful to teachers and parents. Finally the book offers tips on how to effectively engage a child when incorporating literature into a subject.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book can be utilized to find books that are about communities. The book can be used to find nonfiction and fiction books that students will enjoy. The book includes activities to go along with some of the books so teachers can use it for ideas on lessons. All areas of the curriculum are covered by this book.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anthologies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book provides many different actives that children can do to further their learning of community and community workers. It gives ideas on firefighter, police, bakers, and many more. Each activity provides a list of materials with pictures, and step by step instructions on setting up the activity. Teachers and parents can use this book to bring student learning to a hands on approach.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book entails activities on community workers but incorporate many other areas of curriculum. Some include art, fine and gross motor, physical, measuring and many more. When using this book, teachers can provide older students with the instruction and allow them to follow the directions in order to assist their learning.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book explains simple ideas on how we can make the world a better place like planting a garden and turning off the water. These actions are easy enough that any age of child can perform the tasks. Teachers can use this to make activities to remind students to do these tasks not only at school but also at home to help keep the world clean and well.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teacher can use the book not only to teach the students about taking care of a community but also to teach them how much the use each of the items being used. Teachers can talk about technology and how it uses electricity to work. They can also talk about science and how we need to keep our world clean and healthy in order to keep living. Teachers can talk about cause and effect and how doing these little things can improve our environment. They can have the students make charts about the items they can cut down on and graph the differences it make to cut down on it.
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