Bee A Reader

1. Children’s Book Award 2013-2014 Bee A Reader Florida Reading Association

2. Bee A Reader Lesson Plan http://www.reading.org/general/Publications/blog/engage/engage-single-post/engage/2012/11/06/putting-books-to-work-i-need-my-own-country Have students design their own country http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/cec/images/HowToBuildYourOwnCountry_2029_teaching.pdf Rick Walton’s Web Site http://rickcreation.com/rickwalton/index.htm About Rick Walton http://www.ucwi.org/who.htm#Rick%20Walton Illustrator Wes Hargis web site http://www.weshargis.com/

3. Bee A Reader Music Video – When Seasons Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyOwCNr3mM Mo Williams reads City Dog, Country Frog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5co8FZXz0o Activities from RIF http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/multicultural/city-dog-country-frog.htm Teaching Books.net guides and lesson plans http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=22441&a=1 All about frogs http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/frogs/ Mo Willems web site: http://www.mowillems.com/ Interview with Mo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLqoZvrMfw About Jon J Muth http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/muth/

4. Bee A Reader Using the book http://www.chickadeeaward.org/2013-2014/LostandFound.html About the Book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRN0OKtOIno Bill Harley’s web site http://www.billharley.com/ Adam Gustavson http://www.adamgustavson.com/

5. Bee A Reader Nothing on author or illustrator Lion facts and links http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/lion/ Letters to Lions http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/activities/letters-to-lions/ How to draw a lion http://www.howtodrawanimals.net/how-to-draw-a-lion

6. Bee A Reader Have students listen and follow the directions. Did all the pictures turn out the same? http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/folloraldirp.cfm Learn about elephants http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/african-elephant/ Learn about mice http://www.pestworldforkids.org/mice.html Have students write a description for two things that can be confused for each other. Pippa Goodhart’s web site http://www.pippagoodhart.co.uk/ Author Interview http://www.wordpool.co.uk/ap/goodhart.htm Illustrator Andy Rowland http://blog.advocate-art.com/index.php/archives/tag/andy-rowland

7. Bee A Reader How to draw Mossy: http://www.janbrettvideos.com/how_to_draw_mossy_an_eastern_box_turtle.htm Mossy Bookmarks http://www.janbrett.com/bookmarks/bookmarks_mossy.htm Mossy Newsnotes http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mossy_newsnotes_index.htm Email a Mossy postcard http://www.janbrett.com/vcards/gbrowse.php?cat_id=69 Box Turtle information with links http://www.northeastparc.org/products/boxturtle.htm About the Author: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/jan-brett Author’s Web Site http://janbrett.com/biography.htm

8. Bee A Reader No author or illustrator info First moon landing video and audio reading of the book http://readinginaction.org/bookcasts/eight-days-gone Information about Apollo 11 http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm Facts and movies about Apollo 11 http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/apollo11.html Interactive web site goes through the steps of the mission http://wechoosethemoon.org/

9. Bee A Reader The books website http://morrislessmore.com/ The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvSXQwBBQg Lesson Plans http://books.simonandschuster.com/Fantastic-Flying-Books-of-Mr-Morris-Lessmore/William-Joyce/9781442457027/reading_group_guide or http://cjayneteach.com/blog/2013/03/06/the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore/ Willam Joyce’s website http://www.williamjoyce.com/ Meet the author http://www.fcps.edu/fairfaxnetwork/mta/joyce.html