Carolyn and+Christey

Targeted grade/age: 2nd Grade
1. Title:[|Come and Eat!] user:ctuff Summary: Simple text and fun photographs answer the questions: who, when, how, what, where, and why we eat, introducing readers to a feast of food traditions from around the world. Rationale: building on a theme of diversity by learning about what different people in other cultures like to eat. Also give the ELL students a chance to talk about / bring in foods that they eat at home. Targeted literacy level: Beginning Potential instructional uses: Aid in an pre-planning an activity around bringing in different foods for the children to eat. Also Geography could be used to teach simple geography. Learning about where the countries mentioned in the text are on a world map Language demands: Some low-frequency words and academic language

2. Title:[|Beautiful Bananas] user:ctuff Summary: This story is a circular tale from East Africa, which incorporates familiar folkloric elements. A little girl leaves her mother’s hut on a walk to her granddad’s carrying a bunch of bananas on her head. The brightly colored illustrations follow the tale of Beatrice as she encounters many African animals on her afternoon adventure. Rationale: Highlighting diversity by introducing a main character of a different ethnic culture. Whose encounters are unique to the area of the world she is from, but the overall experience is very universal on an emotional level. Targeted literacy level: Beginning - Advance Beginner Potential instructional uses: Learning about different animals that live in specific areas of the world. What kinds of foods grow in Africa that do not grow in North American. Highlighting how we as a global culture benefit from all kinds of food growing in different places around the world. Language demands: Lots of punctuation use.

3. Title:[|PBS kids] user:ctuff Summary: As America’s largest classroom, PBS is available to all of America’s children – including those who can’t attend preschool – and offers educational media that help prepare children for success in school. PBS is the [|No. 1 source of media content for preschool teachers] and a [|leading place parents turn to for preschool video online], with [|content proven to improve critical literacy skills in young children]. Rationale: Provide a website that children can access at anytime to increase their literacy skills. As well as provide a website that parents can learn along side their children. Targeted literacy level: Advanced Beginner Potential instructional uses: Spelling, reading, sentence structures, learning activities. Language demands: Being able to understand directions and basic computer skills.

4. Title:[|Childrens books in Karen] user:ctuff Summary: A list of books that are available in both English and Karen. Rationale: To foster the growth of literacy in Karen, as well as, English. Concluding in the child becoming biliterate. Targeted literacy level: Advanced Beginner Potential instructional uses: Teaching the child her home langauge, which will allow her to transfer the skills she has learned in her L1 to becoming literate in English. Language demands: Not knowing how to read in Karen.

5. Title: I Have a Little Dreidel user:cehzag2012 Summary: A story based around the well-known Dreidel song. Follows a girl preparing for the Jewish celebrations, touching on the different elements that constitute Chanukah. Rationale: A fun, repetitive story that can be sung to help the reader connect to the text in a different way. The pictures help to describe what is occurring in the story, but is a great way to show a multi-cultural holiday to the ELL that is very common to celebrate in America. Targeted literacy level: Beginner Potential instructional uses:Holiday theme lessons, Arts and Crafts related to holidays (make a dreidel), structured repetitive song to reinforce words being learned Language demands: Basic reading level, background as to what a dreidel is and clarification on some common Jewish words used in the story.

6. Title: The Legend of the Poinsettia user:cehzag2012 Summary: A Mexican legend tells how the poinsettia came to be, through a little girl's unselfish gift to the Christ Child. Tomie dePaola has embraced the legend using his own special feeling for Christmas. His glorious paintings capture not only the brilliant colors of Mexico and its art, but also the excitement of the children preparing for Christmas and the hope of Lucida, who comes to see what makes a gift truly beautiful Rationale: The Story focuses on a Mexican Folklore, and is told by someone with a strong Spanish accent. If the ELL is Spanish it is a very good intermediate between the two languages and a helpful way for them to learn english. The pictures and the well told story keep the child engaged and learning through out. Targeted literacy level: Beginner-Intermediate Potential instructional uses: Holidays, bilingual lessons, multi-cultural views of Christmas Language demands: Some spanish words can detract from the English being learned if the child has no Spanish background. The story is well told and comprehensible, but may be told too fast pace for a ELL without Spanish background.

7. Title: D is for Dragon Dance user:cehzag2012 Summary: A alphabet picture book that follows the Chinese New Years celebrations. It teaches to the different parts of the New Years, why certain things go on, and in the end it teaches about the zodiac calendar to help connect the student to the story. Rationale: Zodiac connections shows a way for the ELL to have meaning to the story by figuring out what year they are born in. A interesting way to use the alphabet to tell the history. Very easy to read and comprehend and a good multi-cultural connection. Targeted literacy level:Beginning Potential instructional uses: Alphabet, Holidays, multi-cultural lessons Language demands: Basic understanding of English alphabet, some new, complicated words such as acrobat and zodiac need to be taught prior to reading.

8. Title: The Dragon Thanksgiving Feast: Things to Make and Do user:cehzag2012 Summary: A story formed as a rhyme that focuses on a dragon family preparing for their Thanksgiving feast. In addition to a fun story, it incluses different crafts, recipes and fun decoration to make for your own Thanksgiving. A great way to teach an ELL about the community feeling that comes along with Thanksgiving. Rationale: A simple read that allows the ELL to engage with the text either with a sibling, parent, friend, or as a classroom activity. Reading the story and the directions of how to do things incorporated academic language and every day language into a fun activity. Targeted literacy level: Beginning Potential instructional uses: Arts and Crafts, teches rhyming words and how to follow instructions Language demands: Story is very simple language and easy to follow. Directions of how to do things involves new words and concepts to a beginning ELL.

9. Title: Chopsticksuser:cehzag2012 Summary: This enchanting story is about a mouse who lives in Hong Kong on a large restaurant boat. One New Year's night, he brings a carved wooden dragon who stands guard outside the boat to life and together they fly through midnight skies. The book shows hisory of China, the excitement of New Year's, and an unlikely friendship. Rationale: The book uses many new verbs that can help an ELL in everyday language. The pictures are very helpful in deciphering what is occurring in the story. It also brings together the multi-cultural theme of the unit with Chinese New Year as the event occurring in the story. Targeted literacy level: Beginning-Intermediate Potential instructional uses: Teaches the use of verbs in many different situations. Also good for a holiday theme or a adjective themed unit as well. Language demands: Structured sentences may be difficult to read at time, however they are simple and use vocabulary that could be helpful in an academic context and a every day use.

10. Title:The 13 Nights of Halloween user:cehzag2012 Summary: A great picture book that counts down the 13 nights of Halloween and the creepy, fun gifts that mummy gives you to. The introductions of the different gifts involve new, useful adjectives. Framed in the manner of the 13 days of Christmas song. Rationale: The book incorporates great use of adjectives and pictures to help the new reader understand what each word means. The repetitive nature of the book helps with learning to count, remembering the new words, and it a fun way to introduce the creepy ideas that come with halloween. Targeted literacy level: Beginner Potential instructional uses: Great for teaching counting, about holidays and halloween, and for adjective lessons. Language demands: The book uses easy, repetitive sentences that build on perviously used words through out the book. New vocabulary can be aided with the pictures associated.

11.Title: [|Did you say Pears?] user:ctuff Summary: This book takes a playful and very clever look at words that sound the same and sometimes are spelled the same, but have different meanings. Using colorful photographs and catchy word phrasing this book offers a fun way to learn about homonyms and homophones. Rationale: This book can be helpful to both an ELL and mainstream student. Students can use the pictures to identify text words that may have otherwise been confusing to them. Targeted literacy level: Beginner, Advanced Beginner, & Intermediate Potential instructional use: Teaches homonyms and homophones, as well as, spelling. Language demands: This book uses simple sentences and descriptive pictures in order to make it accessible to a child at a beginning literacy level