Madalyn Jackson

EDT 315
Susan Vincent
4/12/2018
Poems
1. Wilson, Karma. Outside the Box. 2014.
 Ages: Elementary School ages
 This book has poems about many different things.
 This is good for the classroom because it will help students use their imagination
and see more rhyming words.
2. Wilson, Karma. What’s the Weather Inside?. 2009.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This is a big book of poems that are longer, and they are all about different types
of weather and what happened with weather.
 This is a good book for the classroom and it will help students learn more about
weather that they see outside.
3. Roemer B, Heidi. Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems. 2004.
 Ages: Early Elementary School ages.
 This book has many short poems about all types of shapes and the poems are in
the shape of shapes.
 This is a good book for the classroom because helps students learn about shapes
they are learning about in the classroom and it has good rhyming words.
4. Salas Purdie, Laura. Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School. 2009.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This is a book about things that go on in school and the poems are short with
rhyming words.
 This is a good book for the classroom because they will be able to relate to some
of these things since they are in school themselves.
5. Salas Purdie, Laura. Book Speak! Poems About Books. 2011.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This book has many different poems that are shorts and has rhyming words.
 This book is good for the classroom for kids to learn about poems and for them to
learn about rhyming words. This also has good pictures that go with the stories.
Folktales
6. McCafferty, Catherine. The Gingerbread Man. 2008.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
  This book is about a little old woman makes gingerbread cookies and one came
alive. He ran away, and he could not be caught, he ran across many obstacles and
then he got eaten by a fox.
 This is a good book because it also has the words in Spanish, so it helps bilingual
students as well. This book will also be familiar to the kids.
7. Marshall, James. Red Riding Hood. 1987.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This book is about a little girl going to her grandma’s through the woods. She gets
stopped by a wolf trying to see her basket and red riding hood refuses, so the wolf
goes and eats her grandma. When she gets there, he acts like her grandma, but a
hunter comes and saves her and her grandma.
 This is a good book for the classroom because it is interesting, and the students
will be familiar with this book.
8. Marshall, James. Goldilocks and The Three Bears. 1988.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This book is about a little girl named goldilocks and she was sent into the next
town by her mom. on the way there she finds a little cottage where three bears
live, and she tries out all their stuff trying to find the best fit. Once the bears got
home goldilocks ran away and they never saw her again.
 This this a good book for the classroom because the students will know this story
and know other versions.
9. Keep, Richard and Lowery, Linda. The Chocolate Tree. 2009.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This book is set up in chapters about a Mayan god that helps the Mayans learn
how to grow things and they create a jungle of the best fruit. This was not good
though their favorite food was chocolate and in the end, he gives them chocolate
trees.
 This is a good book for the classroom because it teaches kids about a different
cultures belief and it also is a book about using your imagination. It also has good
pictures.
10. Ljungkuist, Laura. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 2003.
 Ages: Elementary School ages.
 This book is about a princess who has a step mom who is jealous of her. The step
mom sends her out into the woods and wants her to be killed so she will be the
prettiest in all the land. Snow white gets away and finds a house full of dwarfs
and then gets poisoned by an apple. They only way she wakes up is when her
prince kisses her.
 This is a good book for the classroom because students will be familiar with the
movie and they will like the pictures that go along with the book.