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Here
are some of the implementation ideas related to the FRA Children's Book
Award .
I record
myself reading the book. I will play that on Monday after the morning
show. I give the teachers passes for each student to come to the media
center for a center on the book of the week. I will get my centers from
the activities section. After they have heard all 8 books their teacher
will bring them up to the media center where I have the books displayed
and a cup in front of each book. They can drop their ticket in the cup
that is their favorite book. I count the votes and submit the results.
Jodi Vizzi, Nelson Elementary,
Dover, FL
Each
year I read aloud the new FRA books to primary students during media time. I read a different book to K, 1,
2 so that I am not reading the same book fifteen times each week. I find 1-3
small objects that represent each book;
I keep them in my FRA basket. Before I
read a new book, I pull out the
"old objects" and students tell me what book they represent. This keeps
all the titles
fresh in their minds. After I've read a new title, I ask students to suggest suitable objects to represent
it--then I show them what I've
selected and add them to the basket. Many of the books lend
themselves to extension
activities--first graders grew beans for "Thea's Tree" and k students sipped green tea after they shared a class
collage they made in art of
one of the scenes from "Listen to the Wind". I collaborate with art
& music with at least
one of the titles each year. I always choose one book that lends itself to beginning research for 2nd
grade. Last year, students researched
one of the trees from "The Happiness Tree" and made lovely seed mosaics. I always highlight vibrant
vocabulary and as the weeks go by, I add
questions to character, setting, theme, or vocabulary cans
from which students pick out
a few questions for each class. Then after hearing all 8 books read aloud, students vote for their favorite
book. First we play Jeopardy
(based on questions from the cans) and FRA Bingo (the boards are made from the picture ballot on the FRA
Website). K students vote using the picture ballot. 1st and 2nd graders vote
electronically using a survey on my
school media page.
Rose Kelly, DeSota Trail Elem.
Tallahassee, FL
In my school of about 900
students, I purchase 3 copies of each FRA title. I put a set a in box and rotate the boxes with a
ballot between the teachers
in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. I collect the ballots,then submit the vote from our school prior to the voting
deadline. This allows students
to hear the stories over a shorter period, to help them make a better selection of which book they think is
best. Also, it introduces teachers
to new titles.
Roberta Mann, retired, Tallahassee,
FL
If
you have an implementation idea that you would like to share, please submit
it to cba@flreads.org.
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