Content Area Reading and Writing: Insect Book List

Hello Teachers/Friends,

Some of us are embarking on a science, reading, and writing study soon in our classrooms.  We are ordering bugs, caterpillars, worms, and more in preparation for our students to observe animal life cycles.  You may also be shopping for some books so kids can read about these insects during reading workshop.  I just did some browsing myself and thought I would share the lists I made. 

Happy Reading!

Books for Content Area Study of Insects:

Ladybug Books

 Books found at Amazon.com and Other Online Booksellers:

Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright by Mia Posada

A Ladybug’s Life by J. Himmelman

Ladybugs by Claire Llewellyn

Ladybugs and Other Insects (Scholastic First Discovery) by Gallimard Jeunesse

A Ladybug Larva Grows Up (Scholastic News Non-fiction) by Katie Marsico

The Life Cycle of a Ladybug (Learning About Life Cycles) by Ruth Thompson

Ladybug (Life Cycles) by David M Schwartz

Books found at Book Source:

Are You A Ladybug by Judy Allen

Hungry Ladybugs by Judith Jango-Cohen

Crawl, Ladybug, Crawl! By Dana Meach Rau

Ladybug, Ladybug, What Are You Doing (Board Book) by Rourke, Eds.

Ladybugs by Margaret Hall

Ladybugs by Chery Coughlan

Mealworm to Beetle Books

Books found at Amazon.com and Other Online Booksellers:

From Mealworm to Beetle: Following the Life Cycle (Amazing Science) by Laura Purdie Salas

Mealworms (Watch it Grow) by Martha E. H. Rustad

Beetles (Welcome Books) by Edana Eckart

A Mealworm’s Life by John Himmelman

Young Naturalist’s Pop-Up Handbook:  Beetles – Book #1 (Young Naturalist’s Handbook) by Robert Sabuda

Butterfly Books

Books found at Amazon.com and Other Online Booksellers:

Time for Kids: Butterflies! By Editors of Time for Kids

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly by Bobbie Kalman

Are You A Butterfly? By Judy Allen

The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to Maturity, A Visual Guide to 23 Common Garden Butterflies by Judy Burris

From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman

Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons

Monarch Butterfly (Life Cycles) by David M. Schwartz

A Monarch Butterfly’s Life by John Himmelman

Ant Books

Books found at Amazon.com and Other Online Booksellers:

National Geographic Readers: Ants by Melissa Stewart

Are You An Ant? (Backyard Books) by Judy Allen

Inside an Ant Colony (Rookie Read-About Science) by Allan Fowler

The Life and Times of the Ant by Charles Micucci

Time for Kids: Ants! by Editors of Time for Kids

The Life Cycle of an Ant by Hadley Dyer (a Bobbie Kalman book)

Ant Cities (Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science 2) by Arthur Dorros

 

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Hello Teachers/Writers,

Spring is in the air and I am busy gathering a new collection.  "Of what?" you might ask.  Well, I'll tell you. 
Poems. 

I am gathering them from lots of different places and getting inspiration from several other bloggers, teachers and kids.  One of my favorite sites right now is the Poetry Everywhere site from PBS.  Lucille Clifton is one of my favorite poets of all time and I thought this clip would welcome us all into the celebration that is National Poetry month.  You can see more of these great videos at the Poetry Everywhere site.  Thank you PBS!

Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

"won't you celebrate with me..."

 

Another favorite of teachers is this poem by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

"Music lives inside my legs..."

I also found a lovely blog, with several great suggestions for anthologies and ways to use poetry in the classroom.  Go to http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/

I'll be back with some of my favorite poems and suggestions for ways we can help kids read and write poetry later this month.  Happy collecting!