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TEACHING RESOURCES

Teaching STEM and eBooks for Creativity and
Common Core with Elementary School Children’s Literature

Mentor Texts TERENCE W. CAVANAUGH New Ways to Encourage
Collaborative Divergent Thinking
Lesson Plans, K–5 MARIANNE SACCARDI

ANASTASIA SUEN
AND SHIRLEY DUKE

December 2014, 206pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-1-61069-849-8
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00
eBook: 978-1-61069-850-4 July 2014, 239pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-1-61069-355-4
December 2013, 237pp, 8 1/2x11 eBooks offer students as well as $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
Print: 978-1-61069-426-1 eBook: 978-1-61069-356-1
$48.00, £37.00, €44.00 teachers, school and public librarians,
eBook: 978-1-61069-597-8 and parents tremendous possibilities.
This book explains how to expand and “ This title’s practical application
enhance the reading experience through in school library media centers
“ resource for librarians and the use of technology. and classrooms is obvious, but
This book is a practical
public libraries will also find
teachers to integrate Common FEATURES this useful to connect literature-
Core and STEM into their • Explains how any teacher or librarian based library programs with
” process of using eBooks as reading ”
instruction. . . . Recommended. can get started on the integration local curricula.
—Library Media Connection, tools —School Library Journal,
May 1, 2014 February 20, 2015
• Covers all the key critical information
Librarians can use this book to become regarding eBook use: the different Today’s students need to be able to do
leaders in their schools, collaborating formats of eBooks and readers as well more than score well on tests—they
with teachers to keep them abreast as how to collect and hold eBook files must be creative thinkers and problem
of resources that will facilitate the • Provides information on where solvers. The tools in this book will help
inclusion of STEM in the curriculum. teachers can get thousands of free teachers and parents start students
digital books for their students to use,
FEATURES including text, audio, and video books on the path to becoming innovative,
• Offers five library lessons for each successful individuals in the 21st century
STEM subject based on a mentor text workforce.
and a lesson for the collaborating
teacher FEATURES
• Demonstrates how to use children’s
• Provides a booktalk to interest the literature specifically to foster
students and a “Book Time” section
that allows for reading all or parts of divergent thinking in students in
school and at home
the book accompanied by a general
discussion
• Shows the range of grades for which ALSO OF INTEREST
each lesson is most suited and how it Books That Teach Kids to Write online at
can be adapted
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