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Kaela Welch ECD 418 Bibliography


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This book discusses how little trucks jobs are just as important as big truck jobs. On each page it introduces a truck and what job that truck exactly does. It also provides a brief description on the truck and what location or incident you would use this truck. Since this book talks about covers all the different trucks jobs, you can also use this to discuss what jobs there are in the community and how important they are. This book talks about ambulances, mailman trucks, trash trucks for example and how important these jobs are to benefit other people in your community.
 * 1) Maass, Robert (2007) __Little Trucks with Big Jobs__. 28. Tempe Public Library
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 * 1) Gibbons, Gail. (1987) __TRAINS.__ 32. Tempe Public Libarary.

// Trains // is about the many kinds of trains that move along the tracks. This book goes into detail on all the different types of trains and how they are pulled by their powerful locomotives. It discusses the special types of engines and how some trains run by electricity but still run on railroad tracks. The story ends with the importance of a train and covers the types of goods it can carry. I would use this book to introduce what a diagram is and how you can use a diagram with text. The book //Trains// discuses how a train runs and shows wonderful pictures that label each part of the train with text to follow describing each label. An activity could be to assign each student with a printable train diagram. Have the students cut and past where the label should go on the train diagram.
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3. Howland, Naomi (1994). __ABC Drive__. 30. Tempe Public Library This book introduces all different types of transportation using all of the letters in the alphabet. It also discusses the various signs and signals used on the road. It provides a picture of the vehicle as well as the letter of the alphabet it falls under.
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This book introduces the alphabet and how objects start with the letters in the alphabet. You could use this book in your classroom to talk about what other words start with certain letters. You can start to introduce sounds of letters to students by first introducing the letters by words that they know and then brainstorming more words.
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4. Buttler, Dori (2007) __F is for Firefighting__. 30.Tempe Public Library This book uses the alphabet to introduce the important aspects of a firefighter and what their job involves. Through each letter, it gives a brief description of what that word was and how it helps the fireman’s job.
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Because this book has great pictures and provides each letter of the alphabet, you could provide this book in your classroom to introduce the sounds of words to each letter of the alphabet. You can hold up each picture and call on students to find a picture in the photo that starts with the letter on that page.
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5. Morris, Ann (1990) __On The Go__. 28. Tempe Public Library This book uses real life photos to describe how people all over the world move from place to place. Through the pictures, it introduces how there are different ways of transportation to get to the sane place. It also shows how trains, boats, buses, planes, etc. may look different from one another depending on where they are from. The book ends with you thinking how maybe one day you will be able to travel to the moon.
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Images in this book introduce cultures and how each culture is different. You can use this book to introduce the different types of cultures there are with the students in your classroom and how they are different. After reading the book each student can talk about their culture and one thing they like the most about theirs.
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// Away We Go // is about how we go from place to place. It introduces the various types of transpiration. It discusses how some are fast and some are slow. This book covers how some transportation needs wheels, some fly in the sky, and how some only move in water. I would use this book to teach shapes. //Away We Go// provides big colorful pictures with numerous large shapes on each page. An activity could be to assign partners with this book. The students will count and label the number of shapes they see throughout the book. As a class all the partners will say the total number of shapes they found and see who was the closes. // Protecting Your Home // is a great book to learn about jobs in the community like firefighters. This books how firefighters help rescue people and animals and what tools they use for it. In the back of the book it has facts about firefighters and labels the equipment they use in their truck with a sentence describing what the equipment does. This is a great book to introduce safety with fires. Students can practice stop, dropping, and rolling outside. They can also write up an escape plan for their house and in school if something ever did happen with a fire so they are prepared. This book also covers how important the job of firefighters is and all the equipment they have to use to stay safe themselves. This book is about a father who is a flight pilot who is taking his kids on a flight to California. It talks about what pilots have to do before they take off to make sure the plane is safe. It also discusses that you need luggage and what you have to go through before being able to get on a plane. Once the plane takes off, the radio control tower supervises the takeoff and landings of the plane. The book ends with how fun a flight can be.
 * 1) Dotlich, Rebecca. (2000) __Away We Go!__ 18. Tempe Public Libarary.
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 * 1) Owen, Ann. (2004) __Protecting Your Home.__ 24. Tempe Public Library
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 * 1) Bauer, Judith (1990) __What’s it like to be an Airline Pilot__. 32. Tempe Public Library
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For this book, you could talk about sequencing with your students and what steps are needed to take before getting onto an airplane. This book goes into great detail on how to take each step including maps and labels. You could also discuss how to read a map with your students and how important it is for pilots to keep in contact with air traffic control and why.
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This book is about a child who is dreaming about her blue boat that she plays with in the bathtub. In the dream, she sails through the ocean, through the busy harbor, makes friends with the whales and dolphins, and steers through her boat through the storm and under the moon and back to her home.
 * 1) Demarest, Chris. (1995). __My Blue Boat__. 26. Tempe Public Library
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Every child has a favorite toy. This book is a great way to express the connection that each student has with his or her favorite toy. You could talk about sharing toys with one another and how important it is to do so.
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This book talks about the names of different types of boats and what waters boats go in. It discusses how the boats move from engines, to paddling, to sailing. It talks about how some boats are in the ocean, above water, below water, or on the lake. It also has detailed pictures of each type of boat with the name of the boat labeled under it.
 * 1) Litowinsky, Olga (1999). __Boats for Bedtime__. 32. Tempe Public Libarary
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With this book, you could talk about comparing and contrasting sizes with different objects. This book gives great detailed pictures so students can easily be able to identify which boats are larger or smaller than others. This is a rhyming book that introduces how a school bus rides you back and forth to school each day. It describes what animals are getting on the bus and what seats they always sit in. This bus picks them up everyday for school and waits outside the school until it is time to go home. They then get dropped off one by one.
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 * 1) Roth, Carol (2002). __The Little School Bus__. 38. Tempe Public Library
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This book is a great way to introduce rhyming words to students and also numbering order. This book counts the animals that are getting on and off the bus and what order they are in a catchy rhyme that the students will remember. It also repeats the order so students remember.
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This book introduces the crew of people who work together to build roads. Throughout the book it goes into detail about the different trucks and equipment used to create these roads as well as the different steps you take before the road is finished. The crew works together to make sure everything is done correctly and runs smoothly. The book ends with happy people driving on the road again.
 * 1) Hennessy, B.G. (1994) __Road Builders__. 16. Tempe Public Library
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With this book, you could have a discussion with your students about working together and how important it is. You can get a lot more done working as a team than by yourself. Every member of your team is important to work together to get things done correctly.
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This story is about a little boy who brought his boat to the beach and lost it as he was playing. When the wind blows the boat away, away from the boy and the beach, past the swimmers and out to the sea, you find out where the boat will go and see. At the end of the book, another boy friends the boat across at a different beach far away and starts playing with it again.
 * 1) Henderson, Kathy (1995) __The Little Boat__. 34. Tempe Public Library
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While reading this book, you can introduce prediction. Each page in this book provides the different journeys the boat when on. Before flipping each page, you can have the children predict what is going to happen next or what will happen to the boat. After reading the story, you could have the children further predict what the new child may do with her boat.
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This book starts off with a man in his apartment who causes a fire from his towel falling onto the stove. He streams, “fire fire” and calls for help. The firefighters go into action and put out this, what now is a big fire. Once the fire is out, it discusses how to prevent fires and what to do if you ever see a fire.
 * 1) Gibbons, Gail (1984) __Fire Fire__. 35. Tempe Public Library
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After reading this book, you can have a discussion with your students about some things in your home that may cause a fire. After coming up with this list, ask your students what they would do instead to prevent these fires. Then this could lead into a discussion about making an emergency call and when it is necessary.
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This story is about people riding the train on the C&O track. When the train whistles it alerts everyone that it is coming. Throughout the book when the train does whistle, someone is wondering where that train is going. It also discusses the passengers on the train and what they do to pass the time. This story ends with the passengers on the train falling asleep and dreaming as well as the people off the train dreaming about where that train is going.
 * 1) Temple, Charles (1996) __Trains__. 22. Tempe Public Library
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This book repeats the same sentence every time the train whistles. While reading, the students will soon catch on to the repeated sentence and be able to read along. While reading this book, once you realize the students caught on to the repetitive sentence, pause and see if the students can say it first.
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This teacher resource book provides a number of activies you can use when you are introducing transportation to your students. This book also provides fun worksheets your students can use to further understand what different types of transportation can be used. While introducing transportation this book includes many worksheets that can use to also improve their cutting, matching, memory, and writing skills. Each page provides a topic and a worksheet followed. Each work sheet includes pictures and instructions for the students as well as the teacher.
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 * 1) Mary, Holy. (2011) __Means of Transportation.__ 26. Barns and Noble.
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This teacher resource book provides lesson and materials needed to categorize different means of transportation on land, air, or water. This books provides the teacher with different lesson and follow up activities to introduce ways to transport goods to the students. This resource book provides instructions for the teacher to give lessons on transportation, Geography, and History. It provides the grade or age level for each worksheet or lesson it covers. This book can be used to discuss the different oceans and land marks we have all over the world. __ How Do We Move __, supplys many lesson and instructional materials for assessment of transportation. This helps the teacher to see if each student understands the objective of her lesson. Each section provided allows the teacher with ideas, instructions, and lessons she can be used in the classroom. Using this book as a teacher resource on transportation allows integration with reading, vocabulary, and writing. Worksheets that are included expands the students to think and read to show understand of what they just learned. This book covers transportation on the road from past to present. Including Venn diagram, classification, and pictures from the North Carolina Transportation Museum. It shows pictures of past and present transportation and the difference between what they look like. This resource has categories that teachers can use for lessons, activities, pictures, materials, and assessments on transportation. This book integrates History from the real life pictures included. This book has worksheet covering different types of transportation on the air, water, and land. Each section has a lesson for your classroom and a worksheet to follow that lesson. This resource book includes patterns, categorizing, and Geography worksheets teachers can use while teaching transportation. This book integrates math since it is using patterns and categorizing. The students are able to count the pictures on the worksheet and place them into different categories.
 * 1) Aurisch, Jackie. (2006) __Transportation.__ 48. Barns and Noble.
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 * 1) Carr, Linda. (2008) __How Do We Move?__18. Barns and Noble.
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 * 1) Eury, Deborah. (2011) __How Do We Move From Place to Place?__24. Barns and Noble.
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 * 1) Winter, Jamie. (2009) __Transportation.__32. Barns and Noble.
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