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Here are some of the extension activities
available for the current and previous FRA Children's Book Award
nominees.
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Extension Activities for the 2010-2011 Children’s Book Award Books
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Extension Activities for the 2009-2010 Children’s Book Award Books
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Extension Activities for the 2008-2009 Children’s Book Award Books
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Extension Activities for the 2007-2008 Children’s Book Award Books
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Activities for the 2006-2007 Children’s Book Award Books
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Extension Activities for the 2005-2006 Children’s Book Award Books
IMPLEMENTATION IDEAS
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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