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I am working on getting an alternative teaching certificate, and one of my assignments is to develope an annotated bibliography of 3 books I would select to read to a class that I plan on teaching. Each book has to be on a different topic or subject and it must include

title
author
Brief summary etc.

I have no kids and have no clue as to what kind of books are being read to kids in that age bracket. Ay suggestions would be appreciative, and if there are teacher websites dealing with reading books to kids etc please pass it along. Thanks.

Nothing springs to mind, diverg. But you may want to scroll through the "what are you reading" thread for ideas.

duh greg - your education resource is right here....

i wish i would have known you were doing AC... i would have hooked you up with one of my programs!

easy thing to do is go to barnes and noble or amazon and check out their kids book page.... that will tell you all the most current books out there that are being bought

my favorites to use with science are

the lorax
barthlomew and the ooblex
there's a hair in my dirt

here is the link to the children's book council... http://www.cbcbooks.org/ great resource there

remember - ANYTIME you need help, just let me know

also - why are you doing EC-4... that certification is going out the door here in Texas. you should be in a EC-6 program.

are you going for generalist? special ed? bilingual?

txaggirl91 wrote:also - why are you doing EC-4... that certification is going out the door here in Texas. you should be in a EC-6 program.

are you going for generalist? special ed? bilingual?

It iswhat is offered at region 4. I am going for EC-4 generalist/esl. Ah crud. just got a call from work. They need me well at least itsgoing to pay very good for a night time hotshot.

txaggirl91 wrote:duh greg - your education resource is right here....

i wish i would have known you were doing AC... i would have hooked you up with one of my programs!

easy thing to do is go to barnes and noble or amazon and check out their kids book page.... that will tell you all the most current books out there that are being bought

my favorites to use with science are

the lorax
barthlomew and the ooblex
there's a hair in my dirt

here is the link to the children's book council... http://www.cbcbooks.org/ great resource there

remember - ANYTIME you need help, just let me know

3 awesome choices, Janice. The Lorax is my all time favorite book, I loved sharing it with all ages. Love the other 2 as well. My books are all packed up, but I'm thinking there is another one I used for that age level...I'll have to think on it.

What about walden.com? They did the Hoot movie and seemed to have stuff for that age group.

Mrs. TTG is a Elementary EC teacher. I'll ask her tomorrow to post in this thread

Here is a question that one student (online class) asked another student in my class. The student being asked the question is currently a Pre-K teacher whose students can not read and do basic stuff. She is trying her best to get them caught up and this isa quote from here post

"We tried to play a rhyming game today, but only one out of twelve students knew what a rhyming word was. This particular student is only 4, but his parents read to him and work with him constantly, and he will be much better prepared for next year as a result. Unfortunately, I seemed to have failed in my efforts to teach the remaining students about rhyming"

The question asked of her was

"Given your efforts with the curriculum that you are trying to carry out with your pre-k class, would you consider yourself a failure if your students do not grasp all the concepts in which you are set out to teach?


(This is not a question to imply that you will fail. I am just curious because I am limited on classroom experience, and I just want to understand the feelings that are involved when children have shown no improvement despite your efforts.)"

So for the teachers out there how do you feel when your students do not make the progressyou hope for despite your best efforts?